perspectives Flashcards
Structuralism
Focused on introspection and the parts of the mind
Titchener
Functionalism
Focused on the purpose of the mind, eventually evolutionary pysch
James
Psychodynamic
Unconscious motivation and childhood
Freud
Behavioral
Rewards, punishments, modeling
Pavlov, Watson, Skinner
Humanist
Free will and human growth
Rogers and Maslow
Cognitive
Faulty Thinking = irrational behavior
Sociocultural
Expectations, norms, rules
Neurobiological
Changes in brain, body, genes
Evolutionary
Behaviors are adaptive - contribute to genetic survival - behaviors come from genetics (traits that survived) is why they act that way
Darwin
Eclectic
Biospsychosocial, multi perspective approach
Psychology
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Wilhelm Wundt
Nativist (Nature)
Philosophy - born with knowledge, experience brings the knowledge back
Descartes, Plato, Socrates
Empiricist /Blank Slate
Philosophy - born empty and learn through experience
Locke and Aristotle
