History & Perspectives Flashcards
Psychology is the study of ____ and ____
Behavior and mental processes
Official titles for Nature vs Nurture
Nativist vs Empiricist
How would you empirically study gravity
Drop an object to see if it falls
Father of psychology
William Wundt
What is introspection
Recognizing self emotions and mental processes
Established first American laboratory
G Stanley Hall
Published first American psychology journal
G Stanley Hall
Had a heavy hand in the APA
G Stanley Hall
How would a structuralist study consciousness
Studying the structure of the brain and its effects
How would a functionalist study consciousness
Why people do/ have things
Major contribution of William James
Wrote a psychology textbook
First female psychologist
Mary Whiton Calkins
Summarize Gestalt psychology
Laws of Simplicity/Grouping
Freud is responsible for what perspective
Psychoanalysis/ Psychodynamic
Who’s main focus was sex and aggression
Freud
Father of behaviorism
John B Watson
What is the major focus of behaviorism
All behaviors, especially ones learned
Memory, critical thinking, problem solving
Cognition
Free will and self actualization
Humanism
Who and when was evolutionary psychology established
Charles Darwin- the late 1980’s
What was the premise of evolutionary psychology
Behavior patterns and survival
What is the difference between school and education psychology
School psych promotes school and works with individuals whereas educational psych tests theories on education as a whole
Psychology that works in diagnosing, evaluating, and treating
Clinical psychology
Psychology that handles lower level psychological issues
Counseling psychologists
