Unit 1 Exam Flashcards
Pyschology
The study of behavior and mental proccesses
What was Socrates’ and Plato’s concept of the human mind?
They believed the mind and body are seperate. The mind continues, even after the body dies
Aristotle’s concept of human mind?
Thought with reason and logic
John Locke
Believed everyone is born with a TABULA ROSA or clean slate
Structuralism
Examine your own cognitive processing
Functionalism
Observing conscious actions including emotions, memories, habits, power
Heavily influenced by Charles Darwin
Behaviorism
Believed science is from observation
Cant observe emotion but can learn by how someone behaves or reacts
Observable behavior turned psychology to scientific
Gestalt
German research that discover when people are given a cluster they organize them into groups
Psychoanalytic/ pyschodynamic
How unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior and use information to treat people with pyschological diseases
Humanism
Emphasized the growth potential of healthy people and individuals potential for acceptance beyond self fulfillment Beyond reptillian (agression) brains
Evolutionary
How natural selection of traits promoting survival of certain genes
Biological
The link between biological and pyschological processes
How the body and brain work together
Cognitive
The study that links brain to mental activity
How we encode, process, store and retrieve information
Nature vs nurture
The controversy over the contributions of biology vs experience
Biological
How the genes and environment influence individuals
Counseling
Help people cope with challenges and improve personal or social functioning
Clinical
Asses and treat mental,
Emotional, and behavior disorders
Developmental
Changing abilities from womb to tomb
Educational
Influences on teaching and learning
Not dealing with kidd
Experimental
The study of behavior and thinking using the experimental method
Human factors
Focus on the interaction of people, machines, and physical environment
Industrial Organizational
Use pyschology to help organizations and companies select and train employees boost morale and productivity, design products, and implement systems
Personality
Investigate persistent traits
Views into human resiliance
Social
Exploring how we view and affect one another
Economic statues?
Mary Whilton Calkins
1st women @ Harvard and president of American Pyschological Assosciation Students dropped class bc she was a girl
Charles Darwin
Argued that natural selection (survival of the fittest) shapes behaviors as well as bodies
Dorothea Dix
Advocate for mental health hospitals
Sigmund Freud
developed the pyschoanalytic theory
Focused on subconscious mind (dreams)
W/ free association- talk therapy
G. Stanley Hall
1st puschologist to describe adolescence as tension between biological maturity and social dependance creates stress
William James
Considered the evolved functions of thoughts and feeling
Mary Calkins’ teacher
1st textbook
Ivan Pavlov
Pioneered the study of learning
Conditional training
Jean Piaget
Most influential observer of child
Carl Rogers
Revolutionized therapy
Furthered humanistic
Developed theory of unconditinal positive regars
B.F. Skinner
Redefined pyschology as “the scientific study of obervable behavior
Assoc w behavior
Margaret Floy Washburn
1st women to get a pyschology pHD
2nd female president APA
John B Watson
Rejected study of mental processes
Wilhem Wundt
1st experiment
Reaction time/ studied consciousness
Changed from philosophy to science
Edward Tichener
Structuralism
Introspection
Examining thoughts and feelings (non scientific)
Abe Maslow
Maslows heirarchy of needs
Need for self actualization
Pyschiatrist
Also a dr - perscription
SQ3R
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How did pyschology as a study of behavior and mental processes develop
Track back to EMPIRICISM- emphasizing the role of experience and evidence, espically sensory perception, in the formation of ideas while discounting the notion of innate ideas
