ch 1 Flashcards
Structuralism
Edward Titchener, analyze consciousness into its basic elements and investigate how these elements are related
functionalism
William James, investigate the function or purpose of consciousness, rather than its structure
behaviorism
John B Watson, scientific psychology should study only observable behavior, nature vs nurture
gestalt
The whole can be greater than the sum of its parts, Max wertheimer describes this
psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud, focuses on unconscious determinants of behavior to explain personality, motivation, and mental disorders
humanism
emphasizes the unique qualities of humans, especially their freedom and their potential for personal growth
clinical psychology
concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and disorders, both research and counsel
counseling psychology
focus on patients without mental illness problems like relationship counseling, drug use, and life issues, education degree, not as much research
cognition
mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge, internal mental events, Piaget Chomsky Simon
neuroscience/biological/physiological processes
James olds (medial forebrain bundle, explains how stimulus causes addiction) Roger Sperry (left/right brain) Donald Hebb (cell assemblies and memory) Karl Lashley (parts of the brain functions are important)
Evolution
natural selection for behaviors, Buss, Daly and Wilson, Cosmides and Tooby (mating jeaslousy sex)
cultural
ethnocentrism/superiority, white males, how culture influences, cross cultural (what is universal)
psychiatry
A branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and disorders
psychology
The science that studies behavior and the psychological and cognitive processes that underlie it
positive psychology
The positive, adaptive, creative, and fufilling aspects of human existence
