Module 1 Flashcards
How is psychology a science?
Psychology’s finding, based on empirical approach, resulting of careful observation
Why is “the rat always right”
The rat (psychologist’s maze) is Always right because facts are facts
Empirical Approach
Evidence based method that draws on observation and experimentation
Critical thinking
Not blindly accepting arguments/conclusions. Examines assumptions, appraises the source. Discern biases, evaluated evidence and assesses conclusions
Wilhelm Wundt
1879 first lab in Germany
Conducted the ball study
Two schools of psychology of thought
Structuralism
Functionalism
Structuralism
Early school of thought.
Used introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind
(Wundt and titchener)
Functionalism
(James/ influenced by Darwin)
Explores mental and behavioral processes function
Adapt, survive, flourish)
What event defined start of scientific psychology
Germany 1879
Wundt opened the first lab
What is introspection
Self reflection
Looking inward
Why did introspection fail?
Self reports often varied depending on experience and the persons intelligence and speaking abilities
The school of _____ used introspection to define the minds make up
Structuralism
______\ focused on how mental processes enable us to adapt/survice/ flourish
Functionalism
What is behaviorism
1920 John b Watson /B F Skinner
The view that psychology should be objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes
Freudian psychology
Our unconscious mind/ childhood experiences affect our behavior
Signing Freud
Humanistic psychology
1960 Carl Rogers/ Abraham Maslow
Emphasize human growth potential
Focused on our need for love and acceptance and environments that nurture / limit personal growth
From 1920 through the 1960 the two major force in psychology were
Behaviorism and freudism
Cognitive psychology
Study of mental processes
Perceive/ learn/ remember/ think/ communicate and problem solve
Cognitive neuroscience
Interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition
Perception/ thinking/ memory / language
PSYCHOLOGY
The science of behavior and mental processes
Nature-nurture issue
Relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors
