Roots and Early History Flashcards
What is Physiology?
The branch of biology that studies the functions and parts of living organisms.
What is Psychology?
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
Sigmund Freud
Founder of psychoanalysis.
What is the unconscious?
Freud’s idea that painful, traumatic memories are repressed to keep one’s mind from going insane… However, the memories still exist and influence behavior.
What is behaviorism?
Psychology redefined as the scientific study of observable behavior.
What is Humanistic Psychology?
The idea that humans are basically good, with an emphasis on free will and choice. Self-esteem, etc. We control ourselves, not nature or nurture.
What is Cognitive Psychology?
The scientific study of how perception, thought, memory, and reasoning are processed.
B.F. Skinner - what school of thought?
Behaviorist.
John Watson - what school of thought?
Behaviorist.
What did Ivan Pavlov discover?
Conditioned reflexes.
Carl Rogers - what school of thought?
Humanistic Psychology.
Abraham Maslow - what school of thought?
Humanistic Psychology.
