Beginning of Psych Lectures

Question 1

A German scientist and he decided to his attention to the study of human behavior. His approach was to look at individual parts or structures of people. He also did crude experiments to see these sensory parts were working. For example the senses, the eyes and ears.

Answer 1

Wilhelm Wundt 1879

Question 2

His approach was to look at individual structures of people

Answer 2

Structuralists

Question 3

What are the three major explanations of behavior?

Answer 3

Psychoanalytic, Behavioral, Humanistic

Question 4

It is abstract

Answer 4

Behavior

Question 5

He was an American student studying with Wilhelm Wundt and learned about this new field of psychology that had begun. He came back to America and started to spread this idea of psychology in the 1880s.

Answer 5

Edward Titchener

Question 6

He had a particular approach to how he was going to understand human behavior

Answer 6

Reductionism

Question 7

He brought psychology from Europe to the United States

Answer 7

Titchener

Question 8

He was a Harvard teacher and taught philosophy and physiology. He started to hear about this field of psychology and began to lecture in his lecture in his classes about human behavior. These lectures eventually turned into the first psychology textbook which was published in 1890.

Answer 8

William James

Question 9

James had an approach to understanding behavior

Answer 9

Functionalism