Prologue Flashcards
Socrates believed..
Mind is SEPERATE. From the body
What is psychology
The science of behavior and mental process
Plato believed
Mind and body are SEPERATE.
Aristotle
Mind and body are not separate knowledge is pre existing
Rene Descartes
Father of modern philosophy, abnormal behavior= brain abnormalities, mind is separable.
Francis bacon
Introduced scientific method
John Locke
Humans are born as a blank slate and learn who we are from experience, he formed modern empiricism
Empiricism
View that knowledge comes from experiences via the senses
Wilhelm Wundt
Opened 1st lab in Leipzig Germany
Edward titchener
Homies with Wilhelm Wundt brought structuralism to us cornell university
An early school of psychology that used interception to explore the element structure of the human mind.
Structuralism
Interception
Self reflection
Functionalism
A school of psychology that focused on how mental behavior process function
William James
One of the first psychologists FUNCTIONALISM
Mary calkins
Student of James first female American psychologist association president.
Margaret Washburn
1st woman to get a PhD in psych
Humanistic psychology
Looked at study of healthy people
Nature nurture issue
Debate between genes and experiences relate to behavior
Natural selection
Charles Darwin. Survival of the fittest
Levels of analysis
Biological psychological sociocultural
Evolutionary perspective
Interest in the role a psychological structure has in how something adapts.
Behavior genetics perspective
How much or genes and our environment influence our individual differences.
Neuroscience perspective
Looking for causes of abnormal behavior primarily inside the individual
Psychodynamic perspective
Systemized study and theory of the psychological forces that underline human behavior conscious and unconscious
Behavioral perspective
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Cognitive perspective
How we encode process store and receive info
Social cultural perspective
How behavior and thinking vary across situations and culture
Basic research
Pure science that aims to increase scientific knowledge base
Biological psychologists
Exploring the links between brain and mind
Developmental psychologists
Studying our abilities from womb to tomb
Cognitive psychologists
Experimenting with how we perceive think and solve problems.
Personality psychologists
Investigating our persistent traits
Social psychologists
Exploring how we view and affect each other
Applied research
Scientific study that aims to solves practical problems
Counseling-
Clinical-
Psychiatric-
- Branch of psych that assists people w living problems (school work and marriage)
- branch of psych that studies assesses and treats people w psychological disorders.
- branch of medicine dealing w psychological disorders
