Unit 1 Quiz Flashcards
Knowledge is innate. Mind is separate from body.
Socrates, Plato, Descartes
Definition of psychology
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Knowledge grows from experience. ID-EGO-Superego
Aristotle
Believed in scientific method and that psych needs to be studied and researched
Francis Bacon
Behaviorism, Tabula Rasa Theory (blank slate)
John Locke
To learn something by watching it and experiencing it. Observation and experimentation.
Empiricism
Father of modern psychology, took psych into the lab with reaction time test, Structuralism (atoms of the mind)
Wilhelm Wundt
First President of the APA, brought psych to U.S. at Johns Hopkins (child psychology)
G. Stanley Hall
Created earliest school of thought: Structuralism
Edward Titchener
Uses introspection to reveal structure of human mind
Structuralism
Looking inward through self-reflection (proved to be unreliable)
Introspection
First American psychologist, wrote first psych textbook, Functionalism
William James
Explores how mental and behavioral processes function (how the mind works)
Functionalism
First woman psychologist, tutored by William James, first female president of APA
Mary Calkins
First woman psychologist to receive a degree. 2nd female APA president
Margaret Washburn
“Sold” people on psych, NOT scientific, founder of psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
Conditioning (molding people). Promoted by John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner (dismissed introspection)
Behavioralism
Form of conditioning like teaching a dog a trick
Operant conditioning
Involuntary conditioning
Classical conditioning
Studies growth and potential of healthy people. (Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow)
Humanistic Psychology
How we think, process, and store information
Cognitive Neuroscience
Biology vs Experience
We are a product of both
Nature-Nurture
Integrated 3 basic levels of psych: biological analysis, psychological analysis, and sociocultural analysis
Biopsychosocial Approach
Unconscious and childhood trauma drives our behavior
Psychodynamic Approach
