Psy 121 Chapters 1 Flashcards
Christian Psychologists
-Augustine
-Thomas Aquinas
What contributed to the secularization of society?
Darwinism and empiricism
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
-Created the first ever lab to study psychological topics
-The “Father of psychology”
-Created structuralism.
What is structuralism?
-The concept that the task of psychology is to analyze consciousness into its basic elements and investigate how all the elements are related.
-To do this they used Introspection
What is Introspection?
-A persons own description of what they are thinking/feeling.
Who created Functionalism?
William James
What is Functionalism?
- The concept/belief that psychology should investigate the function or purpose of consciousness rather then its structure
-Consciousness relies on continuous flow of thoughts.
-More interest in how people adapt to the real world around them.
What did Sigmund Freud say?
-That psychology is not just about consciousness but also unconsciousness.
Our unconscious affects our behaviour.
What is Behaviorism?
What did John B Watson say?
-We need to make psychology into a science and not focus on what we cant see but focus on what we can see.
What is humanism?
-People are diffrent then animals
-We arent just responding to triggers in our environmnet, but are active participant in it
-we desire to be the best version of ourselfs
What are the 4 perspectives?
Cognitive perspective
sociocultural perspective
evolutionary perspective
biological perspective
what is cognitive perspective?
-We must study whats going on deeper
-studies how memory works, reasoning, language
-How we think can influence our emotions
What is sociocultural persoective?
-How does the bigger context of our world effect us
-Psychological issues are rooted in social issues.
What is evolutionary perspective?
-They look at the concept of natural selection and how it affects our behaviours
