Prologue Flashcards
Believed that mind is separate from the body - knowledge is innate
Plato and Socrates
Scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Psychology
Believes that knowledge grows from Experience - not preexisting
Aristotle
Father of Modern Psychology - dissected animals -found brain fluids
Descartes
Introduced scientific method
Francis Bacon
Believed we are born as a blank slate
Locke
The view that knowledge comes from experience via the senses - senses flourish
Empiricism
Opened first lab in Germany
Wundt
Early psychology - looking inward to explore structure - Titchener
Sturcturalism
Opened first US lab
Titchener
Looking inward to explore human mind
Introspection
Focused on how mental and behavioral processes function - James
Functionalism
Developed functionalism - 1st US psychologist
William James
President of APA - studied under James
Calkins
PHD in psychology
Washburn
Looking through the eyes of the observer and eyes of doer of behavior
Humanistic psychology
Environment affects vs. genetics
Nature vs. Nurture
Survival of the fittest
Natural selection
Biological, psychological, social cultural perspectives
Levels of Analysis
How evolution affects psychology
Evolutionary perspective
Role of genetics on behavior
Behavior genetics perspective
Focuses on brain and nervous system
Neuroscience perspective
Study of unconscious mind
Psychodynamic perspective
Focused on learned behaviors
Behavioral perspective