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What are the psychological perspectives class theoretical approaches
Behaviorism Psychoanalytical/psychodynamic Humanism Evolutionary Biological Cognitive Sociocultural Biopsychosocial
Psychoanalytical/psychodynamic
Unconscious mind control behavior
Repressed memories
Freud
Behavior/behaviorism/learning
Behavior due to conditioning reinforcement or observation
Pavlov, skinner, Watson
Humanistic
Individual choice
Belongingness
Maslow
Evolutionary
Natural selection
Survival of the fittest
Darwin
Biological
Genes
Hormones
Brain
Brain chemicals
Gazzaniga
Cognitive
Processing of information
Thinking
Memory
Perception
Loftus, Piaget
Socio-cultural
Interaction of people
Culture
religion
Tradition
Zimbardo
Today
Eclectic- a little bit of EVERHRBING g
Biopsychosocial
Trephination
Cut holes in the skull to release the evil spirits
What does psych mean in Greek
Soul
What does logos mean in Greek
Study of
What does Plato mean in Greek
Theorized about the relationship between thought mind and behavior
What is psychology
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
What is science
Can verifiable, objective predictions
What is behavior
Observable acts
Mental processes
Storing recalling, using info/feelings
How is psychology different from other social sciences
Focuses on individual behavior
Where did psychology come from
Philosophy (the study of knowledge)
Physiology (study of biological functions)
What was Descartes early philosophical perspective
I think therefore I am
Nurture
We are born knowing stuff
What was John Locke’s early philosophical perspective
Mind is a tabula rasa
Nature
We are born as a blank slate- everything we know is learned
Wilhelm Wundt
Father of psychology
Open the first psychology lab in 1879
Psychology students from around the world came to study
Focus on consciousness, discover sensations and feelings are connected
Structuralism
Structuralism three basic mental elements images feelings and sensations
Functionalism
How do we adapt applying Darwins theory of natural selection to mental processes
Who were GEstalt and max wetherimer
The whole experience is often more than just a sum of the parts of the experience- context is important
Mary Witten Calkins
Female student of William James at Harvard or male classmates refuse to stay with her became the first female president of the APA in 1905
Margret Floyd Washburn
First women to gain a PhD in psychology’s
Studied animal behavior
President of the APA 1921
The dog experiment in which the man ring a bell every time you fed some dogs and the dogs and celebrate with the food eventually leading the dogs to be trained
Ian Pavlov (classical conditioning)
John B Watson
First to use the term behaviorism
BF Skinner
Huge influence on behaviorism introduced the idea of reinforcement and operant conditioning
Dorothea Dix
American activists on behalf of the insane. Created some of the first mental assylums in the United States
Stanley hall
Focused on child development and evolutionary theory and educational psychology
First president of the American psychological Association
Jean Piaget
Developmental psychologist
How did the cognitive development of children
