Evolution of psychology

Question 1

Mental processes are

Answer 1

key feature in human organisms

Question 2

Evidence of mental processes

Answer 2

san-rock art (25 000 BCE)

Question 3

Historical evidence of mental illness

Answer 3

• 9000 BCE
• Trepination practices
• African shamans meditating between the human and spiritual world to treat mental illness (4000 BCE)

Question 4

Health viewed as?

Answer 4

Integrated concept

- physical, mental, social and spiritual

Question 5

Rene Descartes

Answer 5

dualism

Question 6

dualism

Answer 6

relationship between biological and mental processes

Question 7

I think therefore I am

Answer 7

Rene Descartes

Question 8

Wilhelm Wundt (1879)

Answer 8

Founder of psychology as independent discipline

Question 9

G. Stanley Hall

Answer 9

Research lab in USA and APA

Question 10

Structuralism

Answer 10

Analyse consciousness into basic elements and investigate how they are related

Question 11

Function of structuralism

Answer 11

Identify and examine fundamental components of conscious experience: sensations, feelings and images

Question 12

Introspection

Answer 12

Sensation and perception in vision, hearing and touch

Question 13

William James

Answer 13

Functionalism

Question 14

Functionalism

Answer 14

Function or purpose of consciousness, not analysing structure