Historical foundations Flashcards
Phrenology
Frantz Joseph Gall.
Biological view of the mind.
Functional localization
Psychophysics
Gustav Fechner
Matter and consciousness are two sides of the same reality.
Measured consciousness.
Introspectionism
Wilhelm Wundt, father of experimental science of psychology.
Having experiences, attending to them and verbally describing them.
Apperception: center field of consciousness
Apprehension: periphery of consciousness
Structuralism
E.B Titchener
Radical form of introspectionism
The mind is the stream of mental processes that we experience subjectively.
Flows from birth to death
William James
Father of American psychology.
Grandfather of modern consciousness studies.
Consciousness is something that flows, ab ever-changing stream of experience. It is not fixes and simple sensations does not exist.
Gestalt-Psychology
Wolfgang Köhler
Kurt Koffa
Max Weirtheimer
Consciousness is not a puzzle of atoms of sensation, it is holistic.
Isomorphism
Mind-brain theory.
Conscious experiences is directly mapped into some physiological process in the brain.
Behaviorism
John B.Watson
Every statement in science must be verifiable by direct and public observations
Functionalism
Opens the black box, and finds smaller boxes inside.
Likens the mind to a computer program, input goes through the mind and follows a set of rules and then results in output.