Intro To Pyschology

Question 1

Psychology

Answer 1

• Comes from Latin meaning, study of soul.

* The science of behavior &a mental processes

Question 2

Zakariya al-Rhazes

Answer 2

*Was one of the first to describe mental illness, and even treated patients.

Question 3

Sigmund Freud

Answer 3

• Was one of the most tremendously influential and controversial thinker of his time.
• His theories helped build our views on childhood, personality, dreams and sexuality.

Question 4

What where the 3 main thoughts about how the study of the human mind should be tackled?

Answer 4

• structuralism
• functionalism
• pyschoanalysis

Question 5

When did scientific psychology got started?

Answer 5

*In 1879 in Germany

Question 6

Wilhelm Wundt

Answer 6

*Set up the first psychology laboratory at the university of Leipzig just a few years after publishing his principles of physiological psychology

Question 7

What did Wundt and his student Edward Bradford Titchener do?

Answer 7

• Took cues from chemists and physicists and argued that if those people couldn’t break down all the matter into simple elements or structures why couldn’t they do the same for the brain.

Question 8

William James

Answer 8

• focusing on why we think and feel and smell etc.

* he focused on the function of behavior

Question 9

How did James define psychology?

Answer 9

*The science of mental life

Question 10

What did Frued encouraged his patients to do?

Answer 10

• Talk about whatever they want

* Free Associate

Question 11

Who where the people who focused on observable behavior?

Answer 11

• Ivan Pavlov
• John B. Watson
• B.F Skinner