AP® History of Psychology | Unit I Flashcards
Identify key vocabulary and the founders of modern Psychology.
Alleged that the mind is separate from the body.
(René Descartes, Socrates, and Plato)
First claimed that the mind and body are not separate.
Aristotle
The idea that knowledge comes from experience, and that observation and experimentation enable scientific knowledge.
Empiricism (John Locke)
Established the first Psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig Germany.
Wilhelm Wundt
An early school of thought that used introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind.
Structuralism (Wilhelm Wundt, Edward Titchener)
Wundt’s American student who went on to establish the first formal American Psychology laboratory, at John Hopkins University.
G. Stanley Hall
The process of looking inwards in an attept to directly observe one’s own psychological processes.
Introspection (Wilhelm Wundt)
Explores how mental and behavioral processes function - how they enable an organism to survive, adapt, and flourish.
Functionalism (William James)
The first female president of the American Psychology Association (APA).
Mary Whiton Calkins
First official female psychology Ph.D. and the second female president of the American Psychology Association (APA).
Margaret Floy Washburn
The view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes.
Behaviorism (John. B Watson, B. F. Skinner)
Psychologists who redefined psychology as the “study of observable behavior.”
(John. B Watson, B. F. Skinner)
Emphasizses the ways our childhood experiences and unconscious mind affect our behavior.
Psychoanalytic/Freudian psychology (Sigmund Freud)
A historically significant perspective that emphasized human growth potential.
Humanistic psychology (Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslov)
The science of behavior and mental processes.
Psychology
