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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  1. Id: mostly unconscious, please drive, primary process thinking
  2. Ego: between id and reality, cap, what you perceive and think, secondary process thinking
  3. 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
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