Lecture 1 Flashcards
7 themes of psychology
Empirical, theoretically diverse, sociohistorical evolution, multiple casualty, cultural heritage matters, nature and nurture, subjectivity
Clinical vs experimental psychology
Clinical - assessment and treatment
Experimental - scientific investigation
G. Stanley Hall
first American PhD, opened first American psychology lab, founder of American Psychology Association
Margaret Floy Washburn
first woman PhD in psychology
Francis Cecil Sumner
first African American PhD, chair of psychology at Howard University
What types of psychology utilize therapy?
Clinical and counseling, clinical is for mental disorders, counseling is for general distress
Community psychology
Using psychology to improve mental health in communities and environments through infrastructure`
Psychiatry
MD who uses medication to treat psychological disorders
Nativism vs Philosophical Empiricism
Nativism - Plato, people are born with knowledge
PE - Aristotle, knowledge is gained through learning
Trephination
A way to treat demons (actually mental health disorders) , drilling a hole in the skull
Early biologic idea
Different organs hold different elements of psychology, treating organs treats mental issues
John Locke
Thought humans were blank slates, knowledge comes from experience and observation
16th and 17th centuries idea of mental disorders
Witchcraft, treated by confinement and isolation
Philosophical dualism
Views the mind and body as 2 separate, fundamentally different things
Phrenology
Feeling for bumps and divots in brain as a sign of an excess or lack of something
Weber & Fechner
differences between real and perceived world
Gestalt
perceptions/sum of sensations are greater than individual sensations
Helmholtz
Examined how nerves work and how fast they work
Structuralism
Wilhelm Wundt, what makes up our consciousness
First psychology lab in the world
Wilhelm Wundt, 1879
Functionalism
William James, how we use our consciousness
Psychoanalysis
Freud, focus shifted to unconscious mind, unscientific, no way of testing
Behaviorism
Behavior over mind
Humanism
Carl Young, all humans have the capacity for good