Science Of Psychology

Question 1

Descartes

What is duralism? And malevolent demon?

Answer 1

1-Separation of mind and body

2-All we have to understand the world is from our senses

Question 2

Wilhelm Wundt

What type of psychologist is he?
What did he use to breakdown consciousness into components?
When was the first lab experiment?
Why is he criticised

Answer 2

1-structuralist
2-introspection
3-1879
4-criticised for having subjective bias

Question 3

William James
What type of psychologist is he?
What did he write?
What did he want to understand?

Answer 3

1-functionalist
2-principles of psychology
3-organised function to understand their behaviour

Question 4

Behaviourism 
Three main psychologists?
What do they ignore?
What do they call the mind?
Two ways you learn behaviour?

Answer 4

1-Pavlov, Watson and skinner
2-ignore consciousness
3-the black box
4-classical and operant conditioning

Question 5

Cognitive
Main psychologist?
What are they interested in?
Who did he take ideas from?

Answer 5

1-ebbinghaus
2-interested in the consciousness
3-ideas from Wundt and James

Question 6

Humanistic approach
Main psychologists?
What therapy did they create?
What did they propose?
What did they move away from?

Answer 6

1-Rogers and Haslow
2-client centred therapy
3-hierarchy of needs
4-move away from determinism

Question 7

Psychodynamic:
Two main psychologist?
What motivates human behaviour?
Name the three personalities

Answer 7

1-Freud and Jung
2-unconscious motivating forces from childhood
3-1D, ego and superego

Question 8

Biological
Two psychologists?
What is behaviour caused by?

Answer 8

1-Paul broch and Carl wernicke

2-down to physical causes and tied to activity in the brain

Question 9

Evolutionary
Three psychologists?
What did they look at?

Answer 9

1-Darwin, Dawkins, Wilson
2-genetics/survival of fitness

Self replicating unit
Random variability in its replication
Pressure to select on that variability