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Chapter 1.1 Psychology: Evolution Of A Science Flashcards

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Edward Titchener

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  • Focused on identifying basic elements of consciousness
  • Flaws emerged and it failed
  • Mostly due to introspective method
  • Wundt’s student
  • Cornell
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Measure and predict thought, behavior, and brain processes

Difficult because: (4)

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  1. People are different
  2. People change over time
  3. Each experience changes you
  4. Always developing
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Behavior

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Observable actions of human beings and nonhuman beings

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Wilhelm Wundt

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  • Scientific psychology should focus on analyzing consciousnesses
  • Taught other psychologists
  • 1879
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Animism

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There’s a spirit that moves the body

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1879

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  • Wundt opened first laboratory devoted to psychological studies
  • Focus on sensation and perception
  • Birth of Psychology
  • Leipzig, Germany
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Hermann von Helmholtz

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Measured speed of responses and recorded reaction times

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Marie Jean Pierre Flourens

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Removed specific parts of animals’ brains and found actions different from other’s

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Psychology

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Scientific study of mind, brain, and behavior And how they interact

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Abraham Maslow

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Emphasis on positive potential of people

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There is some stability in phsychology because:

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  1. Mind and brain are tuned to the world
  2. Modest degree of prediction
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Franz Joseph Gall

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Thought brain was related to mind

Phrenology

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John Locke

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  • Knowledge is acquired
  • Sensory experiences
  • Completed ideas from simple ones
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Thomas Hobbes

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Mind is what the brain does

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Mind

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Private inner experience of perceptions, thoughts, memories, and feelings

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Phrenology

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  • Specific mental abilities and characteristics in different parts of the brain
  • Franz Joseph Gall
  • Bumps and indentations
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Luigi Galvani

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Frog muscles

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Psychoanalysis

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Freud

Active unconscious

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Pierre Flourens

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Experimental ablation

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Aristotle

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  • Philosophical Empiricism
  • A child’s mind is a tabula rosa (blank slate)
  • Materialism
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Behaviorism

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You can’t see the mind but you can see behaviors

Mind is not a subject of study

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René Descartes

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  • Argued that mind and body are different things
  • Modified dualism
  • Animals have no souls so some behavior doesn’t need it
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Levels of Explanation and Analysis:

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  • Social
    • Cultural
    • Interpersonal
  • Individual
    • Individual Differences
    • Cognition
  • Biological
    • Brain Systems
    • Neurological
    • Genetic
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Functionalism

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Study of how mental processes enable people to adapt to their environments

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Structuralism

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  • Analysis of basic elements that constitute the mind
  • Wundt’s students created by building upon his approach
  • Introspection
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Dualism

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Can’t study mind

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Gestalt Psychology

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Max Wertheimer

The whole is different from the sum of its parts NOT The whole is greater than the sum of its parts

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Louis Victor Leborgne

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  • Damage to left side of brain
  • Could not talk (“tan” only syllable he could say) understood everything that was said and could communicate with gestures
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Paul Broca

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  • Worked with Louis Victor Leborgne
  • Concluded that damage to a specific part of the brain impaired a specific mental function
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Nativism

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Philosophical views that certain kinds of knowledge are innate or inborn

Plato

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Introspection

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Subjective observation of one’s own experience

Tone and button experiment

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G. Stanley Hall

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  • Functionalism
  • Set up first psychology research lab in North America at John Hopkins University (1887)
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John Stuart Mill

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Mind is a product of the brain

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Plato

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Nativism

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William James

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  • Drew inspiration from Darwin
  • Mental abilities had evolved because they were adaptive
  • Functionalism
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Philosophical Empiricism

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All knowledge is acquired through experience

Aristotle

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