Broad approaches in Psych Flashcards
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Introspectionism
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the process of observing one’s own thoughts and feelings to learn more about the mind
2
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Gestalt Psychology
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focuses on how people perceive the world as a whole, rather than as individual parts
3
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Structuralism
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Wundt’s student Edward Titchner started an approach at Cornell called Structuralism
As Chemist and physicist study the structure of matter
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Functionalism
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In essence their function is to adapt to the environment
