Unit 1 Flashcards
Who theorized knowledge question “you’re born w knowledge”
Aristotle
Three theorists
Aristotle, John lock, decardes
What did John lock believe
Tabula Rosa, born with a blank slate
What did decardes believe
Cognito ergo sum
What is the cognito ergo sum
Knowledge for certainty: senses fail us. We exist because we are consciously thinking
Who discovered structuralism
Edward T and Wilhem W
Who discovered first psych Lab
Edward and Wilhelmina
Who believed in introspection
Edward and Wilhem
What is introspection
Having individuals answer questions while having experiment
Who brought functionalism to America
William James
What is functionalism
Function of a system
Who wrote a book revolutionizing psychology
Sigmund freud
What and who created the psychodynamic theory
Personality develops through childhood experience (unconscious)
Sigmund Freud
Who developed first school known as behaviorism
John B Watson
Behaviorsm
Looks at behavior, stemmed off of what we have learned through our lives
Who invented humanist theory
Carl Rodgers
What did Carl Rodgers say about his theory
We want to be self actualulized
Psychological perspectives
Study underneath
Biological
Biopsychology of neuroscience: looks at brain interacting with body
Behavioral
Learning from others, learned traits
Psychoanalytic
Personality stems from unconscious drives in childhood
Personality and behavior self worth potential
Humanistic
Passing down traits for survival
Natural selection
Natural section perspective
Evolutionary
How we think and how it effects our actions
Cognitive
How society and culture shape our behaviors
Sociocultural
Study of physical, cognitive, and social change or growth in humans through our life span.
Developmental psychology
Study of psychological processes to affect and enhance teaching and education
Educational psychology
How people influence a group
Social psychology
Application of psychological concepts and methods to affect human behavior in the workforce
Industrial organizational psych
Study of how people and machines interact: create safest machines
Human factors psych
Counseling psychologists vs clinical
Counseling : deal w everyday issues
Clinical: deal with abnormal disorders
Basic vs applied research
Basic: build psych knowledge based
Applied: takes basic research, tries to tackle a problem w it
After body dies, knowledge is born within us. Mind is separable from body
Plato and Socrates
Superstition
Francis Bacon
Empiricism
Knowledge originates in experience. Science should rely on observation and experimentation
Who is a Functionalist scientist
William James
Functionalist =
Consciousness
Mary Calkins
First woman president or APA
An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore Elements of mind
Structuralism
First woman to receive a PhD, animal behavior
Margaret Washburn
Science of behavior and mental processes
Psychology
- Science should be an objective that studies behavior without mental processes,
Behaviorism
Controversy over relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors
Contributions of bio and experience
Nature nuture issue
Levels of analysis
Differing complementary views from biological to psychology to social cultural
A branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who often provide medical treatments
Psychiatry
For behaviorists, psychological science is rooted in
Introspection
