Origins Of Psychology Flashcards
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1870 wundt
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- Opened First experimental psychology in leipzig, Germany
- psychology began emerge as its own discipline
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1900 Freud
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- Established in the psychodynamic approach
- highlighted importance of unconscious mind on behaviour and developed his own therapy called psychoanalysis
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1913 Watson & skinner
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- Established behaviourist approach
- critised Freud & wundt
- arguing that true scientific psychology show restrict itself to studying phenomena that can be directly observed and measure
- believed all behaviour is learnt and that psychologists should on be interested in observable behaviours
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1950 rogers & Maslow
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- Developed humanistic approach
- rejected the views put forward by both the behaviourist & psychodynamic approaches and emphases the importance of free will by attempting to understand whole person
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1960 cognitive approach
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- introduction of computer
- interested in studying mental processes
- believe can make inferences about how the mind works based on the results from laboratory experiments
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1980 biological approach
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- due to advances in technology
- eg. Brain scans allow to have an increased understanding of functioning human brain
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2000 cognitive neuroscience
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- brings together biological and cognitive approaches
- investigates how biological structures influence mental states
