Chapter 1 Flashcards
Cognitive approach
Focuses on thought and the way you think
Evolutionary approach
Darwinism- you inherit your behavior
Psychoanalytic approach
Freud and unconscious
We repress many true feeling but this bring them fourth
Humanistic approach
Hippy
Self-actualization
(Neuro) Biological approach
All feeling and behavior are from organic root
Socio-cultural approach
Feelings and actions based on where you live
Stimulus-response psychology
Behavioral perspective
Cognition
The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience and senses
Structuralism
Edward Titchener
Analyze consciousness into its basic elements and to try and relate them
Six senses
Introspection
The systematic self-observation of ones own conscious experience
Functionalism
Investigates the function or purpose of consciousness
William James
-Darwinism
Stream of consciousness
Everything flows together rather than static points
Sigmind Freud
Psychoanalysis, unconsciousness
He considers people masters of their minds
BF Skinner
Studying the mental thoughts is impossible
-agreed with Watson
“Free will is an allusion”
You can manipulate your behavior
Abraham Maslow
Humanism
Optimistic view of nature
William James
Stream of consciousness
-the flow of thought not just certain points
Darwinism
-survival of the fittest
Wilhem wundt
Created first journal and to psychology
And first formal lab
Consciousness!!!!
German
G. Stanley Hall
Wundt’s students
First psychology lab
Americas first everything
First president of APA
Carl Rogers
Humanist
Optimistic view of human nature
Must take into account human desire of self-growth
John Watson
First pop psychologist
Behaviorism
Should abandon unconsciousness altogether
Nature vs nurture
Stimulus-response
Empiricism
All knowledge is from your senses
Behavioral approach
Don’t care about your feeling because you can change your behavior and habits to make you better
