CH 1

Question 1

Who is Wilhlem Wundt

Answer 1

• (1832-1920)
• establied first psych lab (1879)
• established introspection
• interested in sensation and perception
  carefully measured observations

Question 2

William James

Answer 2

• (1842-1910)
• father of american psychology
• studied human thoughts, feelings, behaviours and why? (thought it was linked to evolution)
• taught first psych course at Harvard (established the psych department there)
• established functionalism: theory that the minds primary purpose is to help humans adapt to their environment.

Question 3

Mary Whiton Calkins

Answer 3

• (1863-1930)
• first female president of APA
• worked at harvard - denied PHD
• studied with james and others

Question 4

Margret Floy Wash-burn

Answer 4

• (1871-1939)
• first femal pHD
• wrote: Animal mid
• masters published by Wundt

Question 5

Francis Summer

Answer 5

• pHD in 1920 (no funding due to his colour) (black)
• area of interest: racial bias ad educational inequality

Question 6

John B Watson

Answer 6

• behaviourist - dismissed introspection
• classic conditioning (little albert experiemnt) which was not ethical

Question 7

Fredrick skinner

Answer 7

• leading behaviourist by 1950s
• operant conditioning (punishment + reward) worked on animals and humans
• started the whoel rat and pigeon lab tests

Question 8

Sigmund Frued

Answer 8

• (1856-1939)
• developed psychoanalysis therapy
• beleived illnesses originated in the unconcious mind
• methods: analyzing speech, free association, dream analysis

Question 9

Carl Rogers

Answer 9

• 1902-1987
• person centered (humanistic psychology)
• proposed free will and capacity for change

Question 10

Maslow

Answer 10

• 1908-1970
• focuses on internal forces
• heirachy of needs

Question 11

Contemporary Psych: 1.Evolution

Answer 11

• fell out of favour, some behaviours could not be expalined by this (survival of the fitest)
• focuses on ultimate explanations for behaviour

Question 12

Contemperary Psych: 2. Culture

Answer 12

• psychologist reaseach focus: how children devlop as part of a cultiural group, as well as differneces between culture
• functional things: ex. how socity treats men vs women- how affects child
• multicultura;, our identity plays a role in culture
• we are all more similar then different

Question 13

Contemporary Psych: 3. Biology

Answer 13

• how the nervous system works
• brain imaging - blood flow to brain
• animals - singl cell recording
• study of neuron

Question 14

Contemporary Psych: 4. Cognition

Answer 14

• computer modelling
• input–> processing –> output
• people respond better in conditions when they’re given medicine or cognitive therapy