Unit 1 History Off Flashcards
Pavlov
Learning
Stream of consciousness
Wm James
Wundt
Founder of modern psych
Hebb
Brain involvement,
neutral networks
cell assemblies
Wm James
Functionalist
Understand flow/stream of consciousness
Principles of psyc
Wundt first lab
Leipzig
Structuralism
Task of psyc is to analyze consciousness into its basic elements and investigate how the elements are related. Breaking it down to its structural components.
Introspection
Required training to make the subject more objective and aware
Functionalism
Psych should investigate the function/purpose of consciousness not structure
Rogers
Humanist person-centred therapy
Skinner
Founder of behaviorism, free will is an illusion, environment alone directed behavior
G Stanley Hall
Early founder of psyc labs in USA
Focus of psyc in 19th c and now
Biological bases of behavior
Psychometrics
Development of psyc tests
Abuse relates to
Psyc evolves in a socio historical context
Wundt
Conscious activities
Behaviorism
Study of observable behavior
Database of psyc literature
Psyc info
WEIRD societies
Groups overrepresented in psyc research
Four areas of psyc research
Educational
Social
Cognitive
Developmental
Watson
Father of behaviorism
Downplayed nature, focused on importance of nurture