Chapter 1 Approaches Flashcards

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Wave 1 introspection people

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  • Wilhelm Wundt
  • William James
  • Mary whiton calkins
  • Margaret floy Washburn
  • g. Stanley hall
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History of psychology (waves)

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1) introspection
2) gestalt
3) psychoanalysis
4) behaviorism
5) multiple perspectives

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Introspection wave

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  • trephination in the Stone Age- releasing evil spirits by making holes in skulls
  • structuralism and functionalism emerge
  • doesn’t influence today psychology
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Wilhelm Wundt

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  • made first psychological lab in leizpig Germany
  • recorded cognitive reactions to different stimuli
  • made structuralism
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Introspection

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  • Examining cognitive structures by Recording cognitive reactions to simple stimuli
  • doesn’t influence current psychology
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Structuralism

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Mind operates by combining subjective emotions and sensations
- made by Wilhelm Wundt

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William James

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  • Published first psychology textbook, the principles of psychology
  • made functionalism
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Functionalism

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Believes the mind should not be studied in terms of individual elements of consciousness but rather the whole consciousness

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Mary whiton calkins

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President of American psychological association

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Margaret floy Washburn

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First women to get PhD in psychology

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G. Stanley hall

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First president of American psychological association

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Gestalt psychology wave

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  • focused on trying to see the bigger picture (sum is bigger that it’s parts)
  • draws from all perspectives to evaluate the mind, not only focused on elements of conciousness like structuralism or the complete concious like functionalism, the mind is broader
  • does not influence psychology today
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Wave 2 Gestalt psychology ppl

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Max wertheimer

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Wave 3 Psychoanalysis

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  • to truly understand human thought and behavior one must study the unconscious mind thru psychoanalytic techniques
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Unconscious mind

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Part of the mind that ppl do not have conscious control over and partly influences how we think and behave

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Repression

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Pushing down of unconscious feelings that cause too much tension and anxiety for our conscious mind to deal with

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Wave 3 psychoanalysis ppl

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Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud

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  • made psychoanalytic theory
  • theory used by many artists
  • criticized for being unscientific
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Wave 4 behaviorism

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  • believe that psychologists should look at only behavior and it’s causes (stimuli and response)- not unobservable concepts like consciousness
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Wave 4 behaviorism ppl

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  • John Watson
  • Ivan Pavlov
  • b.f. Skinner
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Reinforcement

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Environ stimuli that that encourage or discourage behavior

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Wave 5 multiple perspectives

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  • current psychologists look at thought and behavior from multiple perspectives (eclectic)
  • no dominant approach
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Psychological perspectives

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  • humanist
  • psychoanalytic
  • bio psychology
  • evolutionary
  • behavioral
  • cognitive
  • sociocultural
  • bio psychosocial
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Humanist perspective

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  • stressed free will which contrast the deterministic theories of the behaviorists
  • choices guided by our emotional spiritual physiological needs
  • not easily tested
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Humanist perspective ppl

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Abraham Maslow

Carl Rogers

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Psychoanalytic perspective

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  • controversial
  • unconscious mind controls most of our thought and behavior
  • look for memories pushed to the unconscious mind thru therapy techniques like dream analysis, word association, etc.
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Biopsychology perspective

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  • explain thought and behavior only thru biology
  • certain thoughts or behaviors may be caused by genes, hormones, neurotransmitters
  • big field
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Cognition

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Thought

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Evolutionary perspective

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  • examine human thoughts and behavior thru natural selection
  • more favorable traits passed down to next generation
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Behavioral perspective

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  • human thought and behavior is affected by conditioning
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Cognitive perspective

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  • thinks thought and behavior is affected by how we see and interpret the world (it just makes sense)
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Sociocultural perspective

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  • thought and behavior is affected by the type of society and culture a person lives in
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Eclectic

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Psychologists who believe multiple perspectives must be used to understand human thought and behavior

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Biopsychosocial perspective

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  • cognitive processes, biological makeup, and social factors influence the person lives in affects their thought and behavior