Unit 1 Flashcards
Components: Humanistic
- Self Fulfillment
- Make Choices
- Invent and Reinvent Yourself
Components: Sociocultural
- Ethnicity
- Economic Status
- Gender
Key Assumption: Sociocultural
*How your position in society affect your behaviors
Components: Cognitive
- Interpretation of mental images
- Know thyself
- Problem-solving
- Creativity, emotion, and thinking
Key Assumption: Humanistic
*People make choices based on their life experiences
Key Assumption: Cognitive
*Perception and thoughts are influenced by your behaviors
Components: Evolutionary
-Height
-Speed
-Weight
-Nature vs Nurture
Components: Biological
-Nervous system (Fight or flight)
-Glands (Nervous sweat)
-Hormones
-Connections in the brain
Significant Figure: Cognitive
-Gestalt (Structuralism and Functionalism)
Key Assumption: Biological
*Mental processes are impacted by the neuro system
Key Assumption: Evolutionary
*Physical traits affect social behavior
Introspection
Your process of thinking; self-reflection
Prescientific
-Roots from ancient times in Greece more than 2,000 years ago
-Centered around introspection
-Greek have many Gods so if you don’t act right you are being punished with brain abnormalities
-No science to back it up yet
Components: Learning
-Memory
-Environment
-Observing
-Change the environment or create new ones
Key Assumption: Learning
Personal experiences and reinforcements determine what you learn
Key Assumption: Psychoanalytic
Unconscious motives influence your behavior
Components: Psychoanalytic
-Unconscious
-Early Life Experiences
-Id, Ego, Superego
Significant Figure: Learning
B.F. Skinner
Significant Figure: Psychoanalytic
Frued
Structuralism
Conscious experience is broken into (1) objective sensations and (2) subjective feelings
Significant Figures: Structuralism
-Wilhelm Wundt
-Edward Titchener
Significant Figures: Functionalism
William James
Functionalism
Conscious works to help humans adapt to their environment
Conscious
Processes information that comes through the 5 senses
