AP Psych Flashcards
Birth of psychology
Wilhelm Wundt
Ball hitting platform experiment
First to call himself a psychologist
distinguished psychology as a science from phisiology to biology
Structuralism
Edward Titchner
introspection
psychoanalysis/dynamics
Sigmund Freud
personality links to unconscious mind
functionalism
William james
wrote principles of psychology
why is it doing not what is it doing
purpose
Tutored Mary w Calkins
became memory researcher and first woman apa pres
Margret Washburn became second
gestalt
Max Werthemier
created lie detector
whole not individual
the whole is greater than its parts
Behaviorism
John watson
Bf skinner
psych should focus on behavior not mental
1 of 2 major forces in psych
experiment with baby
humanistic
Rogers and maslow
focusing on surroundings effects on growth
reach fullest potential with care and love
biological
hormones and brains natural way of reaction brain development
includes injuries effects
Charles darwin
psychological
the way the brain is processing the information
social cultural
affects of peers and surroundings on behavior
cognitive
how thinking affects behavior
internal mental process (scientific)
evolutinary
charles darwin
how traits are passed down promoting best way to survive
natural selection
nativism
socrates
belief that mind is seperate from body and knowledge is pre-existing
empiricism
John locke
belief that mind and body are a pair and you gain knowledge from experience
bruce
evolutionary - wants to eat fish once smells blood like his brain is wired to do
