History of Psychology Flashcards
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Sigmund Freud
Psychodynamic
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Binet
Practical Intelligence Test
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Hugo Munsterberg
Forensic and Industrial Psychology
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Walter Dill Scott
Personnel Selection
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Lightner Witmer
Considered First Clinical Psychologist
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What is the scientist-practitioner model?
Clinical psychologists need to have the same training research as psychologists, plus training in various clinical skills.
the cognitive revolution 1950’s
Frederic Bartlett
Thinking
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What cognitive topics were being explored?
Thinking, problem solving, and memory.
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Mary Calkins
1st femal President of the American Psychological Association, and was refused a psychology degree by Harvard.
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What was the movement of functionalism?
The question of “what is consiousness good for?”
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What is fucntionalism?
The adaptive value and purpose of mental processes and behaviours.
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William James (functionalism)
Textbook of psychology that explored the stream of consiousness.
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G. Stanley Hall (functionalism)
Developmental psychology and an institution builder (created America’s first psychology laboratory).
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James McKeen Cattell (funtionalism)
Study of individual differences, measuring intelliegence.
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What is Gestalt Psychology?
- the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- investigated learning, tinking, and social psychology
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John Watson (behaviourism)
Figured that psychology should focus on the study of learning (little albert and the white rabbit).
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What is behaviourism?
learning behaviour through observation
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What is empiricism?
All knowledge is derived from sense-experiences.
It is a claim about epistemology.
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What is epistemology?
Study of what knowledge is and how we obtain it.
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In context of epistemology, what does empiricism mean?
It means that we are trying to understand some aspect of the world.
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What is Psychophysics?
The study of the relationship between physical qualities and what the experience with that quality is.
Tries to address psychological questions with the aid of systematic observation and measurement.
before the birth of psychology
Ernst Webster and Gustav Fechner (mid 19th century)
Psychophysics
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Whilhem Wundt
- First research psychologist
- institutionalized psychology
- nature of consiousness
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E.B. Tichner
- Studied under Wundt
- brought psychology to the US (started school of structuralism, the structure of consiusness)
