Approaches - Origins of Psychology Flashcards
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Who are the 3 key names in the early roots of psychcology?
Descartes, Locke, Darwin
What did Descartes suggest? (early roots)
Mind and body are separate (Cartesian dualism theory)
What did Locke suggest? (early roots)
Empiricism: all experience can be obtained through the senses, we don’t inherit knowledge or instincts
Basis of behaviourist approach
What did Darwin suggest? (early roots)
Evolution, survival of the fittest
Basis of biological approach
When did experimental psychology develop?
1600s - 1800s
What did experimental psychology suggest at first/before Wundt?
Psychology is a branch of philosophy
What did Wundt contribute? (+ year)
1879 - Psychology its own discipline (not part of philosophy anymore)
When did the psychodynamic approach first develop and who developed it?
1900s - Freud
What did the psychodynamic approach study?
Unconscious and subconscious mind, Freud developed psychoanalysis (a person-centred therapy)
When did the behaviourist approach become established and by who?
1913 - Watson and Skinner
When did the humanist approach become established and by who?
1950s - Rogers and Maslow
When did the cognitive approach become established?
1960s - Scientific study of mental processes using computers as a model of the human mind
When did Social Learning Theory become established and by who? (+ which approaches did it bridge?)
1960s - Bandura
Bridged Cognitive and behaviourism
When was the biological approach made more established?
1980s - modern technology
When was cognitive neuroscience established and which approaches did it bring together?
Just before 2000s
Brought cognitive and biological approaches together
