C1 History Of Psych

Question 1

Prescientific

Answer 1

Philosophy

Question 2

Scientific

Answer 2

Biology

Question 3

Socrates and Plato

Answer 3

Socrates and his student Plato believed the mind was separate from the body -> the mind continued to exist after death and ideas were innate (natural)

Question 4

Aristotle

Answer 4

suggested that the soul is NOT seperate from the body. -> knowledge comes from experience

Question 5

Descartes Dualism

Answer 5

similar to Plato; believed in soul and body separation, but wondered how IMMORTAL MIND and PHYSICAL BODY communicated

Question 6

Locke

Answer 6

believed that the mind was a tabula rasa (blank sheet) at birth, and experiences write on it

Question 7

conficios

Answer 7

stressed the power of ideas

Question 8

structuralism

Answer 8

Wundt and Titchener studied the elements (atoms) of the mind by conducting experiments in Germany

Question 9

Functionalism

Answer 9

influenced by Darwin established the school of functionalism which opposed structuralism.

Question 10

The Unconscious Mind

Answer 10

Freud and his followers emphasized the importance of the unconscious mind and its effects on human behavior

Question 11

Behaviorism

Answer 11

Watson and later skinner emphasized the study of overt behavior as the subject of matter of scientific psychology.