Chapter 1 Flashcards
Scientific study of mind and behavior
Psychology
Overt actions and reactions
Behavior
Private operation
Covert
Public operation
Overt
Explanation of a set of observations or facts
Theory
Focuses on the role of the unconscious in affecting conscious behavior (group)
Psychoanalytic theory
understanding the conscious experience through introspection(person)
Wilhelm Wundt
understanding the conscious experience through introspection (group)
structuralism
examine and measure personal thought and mental activities
introspection
wundt’s student that brought structuralism to America
Edward T
Titchener’s student and first woman to earn a PhD in psychology
Margaret W
functionalism and first American psychologist (person)
William James
mental activities contributed to basic environmental survival (group)
Functionalism
highly influential psychology figure, wrote a general introduction to psychoanalysis, founded psychoanalytic theory (person)
Sigmund Freud
The idea that the eye “fill in” the blanks, and sees both the figures a circles rather as a series of dots or a broken line (group)
gestalt perspection
classical conditioning (person)
Ivan pavlov
an animal produced a reflex (unconscious)
Condition reflexes
Behaviorism (person)
John B Watson
Focuses on observable behavior and ways to bring the behavior under control (group)
Behaviorism
Who concentrated on how behavior was affected by its consequences through reinforcement (person)
B. F. Skinner
humanism (person)
Maslow
Propose to hierarchy of human needs in motivating behavior (group)
Humanism
