History of Psychology Flashcards
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Wilhelm Wundt
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- founded first scientific laboratory in Leipzig in 1879
- study of perception and mental processes
- introspection and decomposing conscious experience of quality and intensity
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Additive Decomposition
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- by Wilhelm Wundt
1. you have a task that requires perception and response
2. add another task on top of that that requires perception, decision, and response - the task can be decomposed
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Gestaltists
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- by Wertheimer and Kohler
- argued against the idea that experience could be decomposed
- the whole is more than the sum of the parts
- no pieces, just experience as a whole
- can’t decompose experiences
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Psychoanalysis
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- Sigmund Freud
- unconscious influence on behavior
- long term effects on personal history
- pleasure/sex
- id/ego/superego
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The Conscious and Unconscious by Freud
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- Id: mostly unconscious, please drive, primary process thinking
- Ego: between id and reality, cap, what you perceive and think, secondary process thinking
- Superego: societal conventions and norms, voice of reason and standards, moral implications and ideas
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Functionalism
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- William James
- thought of what things are for in evolution
- functional level of explanation
- how mental processes help us adapt
- focus on process rather than structure
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Behaviorism
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- by John Watson and B.F Skinner
- how to predict what is going to happen based on whats happening in the environment (contingence)
- event leads to behavior leads to reward