Unit 1 Flashcards
Pondered sensations and perceptions to form ideas
Buddha
Linked mind and emotion to the body
Hebrew
Mind is separate from body; innate knowledge; continues after death
Socrates and Plato
Brain seeks order/pattern in chaos
Bacon
Believed people born with blank slate (observation and experimental)
Locke
Reaction speed to sound
Wundt
Psychology
Study of behavior and mental process
Denied Harvard Ph.D
Calkins
Idea that adaption and evolution led to evolutionary psychology
Darwin
American activist; created first generation of mental asylums
Dix
Freudian psychologist and PHSYCHOANALYSIS
Freud
1st psychology lab and dept, worked with Wundt
Hall
The dog exp; react to bell they’ll know its food
Pavlov
Worked in child development
Piaget
Humanistic psychologist
Rogers
Behaviorism; did the exp w/ rats
Skinner
First psychology female Ph.D
Washburn
Behaviorism
Watson
Discovering structural elements of mind through self-reflective introspection using experiments (look, smell, taste, touch)
Structuralism
James, Calkins, and Washburn believed thinking, smelling, tasting, etc. were inherited adaptions that enhanced survival
Functionalism
Mix of stimuli, put pieces together to create meaningful wholes
Gestalt
Discover unconscious desires and problems
Psychoanalytic
Individuals responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, seeks to enhance self-insight
Psychodynamic
How current environmental influences can nature or limit our growth potential, and importance of having our needs for love and acceptance satisfied
Humanist
Emotions evolved because they were adaptive and allowed humans/animals to survive and reproduce
Evolutionary approach
How interpretations of a situation affect emotion and how emotion affects our thinking
Cognitive approach
