Lesson 2 Flashcards
seeks to understand the structure
(configuration of the elements) of the mind and its perceptions by analyzing those perceptions into their
constituent components (affection, memory, attention,
sensation, etc)
Structuralism
Understanding the structures of the mind
Structuralism
Understanding the process of the mind
Functionalism
suggested that psychologists should
focus on the processes of thought rather than on its content
Functionalism
seeks to understand what people do
and why they do it. This principal question about processes was in contrast to that of structuralists.
Functionalism
seeks to understand what people do
and why they do it. This principal question about processes was in contrast to that of structuralists.
Functionalism
An Integrative Synthesis
Associationism
like functionalism, was more of an
influential way of thinking than a rigid school of psychology
Associationism
examines how elements of the mind, like
events or ideas, can become associated with one another in the mind to result in a form of learning.
Associationism
Example of associationism
Similarity
Contrast
associating things with similar features or
properties
Similarity
associating things that show polarities, such as hot/cold, light/dark, day/night
Contrast
An Extreme Version of Associationism
Behaviorism
focuses only on the relation between observable behavior and environmental events or stimuli
Behaviorism
father of ‘radical behaviorism’. He
believed that psychologists should concentrate only on the study of observable behavior
John Watson
