GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY Introduction Module 1

Question 1

Wilhelm Wundt

Answer 1

Sought to measure “atoms of the mind”

Question 2

Structuralism

Answer 2

technique of introspection
■ report experiences, sensations, feelings
■ drawback: required intelligence and verbal skills, varied results
■ Wundt & Titchener

Question 3

Functionalism

Answer 3

explored how mental and behavioral processes function
■ smelling is what the nose does, thinking is what the brain does, etc.
■ But why- adaptive processes
■ William James (influenced by Darwin): Principles of Psychology (1890)

Question 4

Psychology

Answer 4

Science of behavior and mental processes; roots in many

disciplines and countries; growing and globalizing

Question 5

Cognitive psychology

Answer 5

Study of mental processes, such as those that
occur when we perceive, learn, remember, think, communicate, and solve
problems

Question 6

Cognitive neuroscience

Answer 6

Interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked

with cognition, including perception, thinking, memory, and language

Question 7

Mary Whiton Calkins

Answer 7

Pioneering memory researcher;
■ James admitted her into his grad seminar (Harvard); all the men dropped out
■ James tutored her alone
■ she outperformed all the men
■ offered a degree from the sister university, she declined
■ first female APA president (1905)

Question 8

Margaret Floy Washburn

Answer 8

First (official) female PhD
■ synthesized animal behavior; The Animal Mind (1908)
■ 2nd female APA president (1921)