Week 1 Flashcards
What is introspection
the examination or observation of one’s own mental and emotional processes.
What is structuralism
Structuralism sought to analyze the adult mind (defined as the sum total of experience from birth to the present) in terms of the simplest definable components and then to find the way in which these components fit together in complex forms.
What is functionalism
Functionalism argues that consciousness is functional and serves a purpose.
William Jame’s psychological view
Functionalism
What is the psychodynamic approach?
Posits that conscious and unconscious forces interact to control our thoughts and behaviours.
Behaviour is an interplay between thoughts feelings and wishes.
What psych approach says that mental events are unconscious and that mental processes can be in conflict and this can cause anxiety
Psychodynamic approach - Freud
What psych approach aims to understand the mental life of clients by analysing speech and dreams.
Psychodynamic approach - Freud
Metaphor for psychodynamic approach
Iceberg. Conscious = smaller but visible
Unconscious = larger but not visible
Who developed classical conditioning
Pavlov - pavlovs dog
Who developed operant conditioning?
B.f skinner - the Skinner box
What psych approach states that behaviour Is simply a reaction to environmental stimuli
Behaviourist approach - b.f skinner and Pavlov
T/F
The behaviourist approach seeks to understand the relationship between stimuli and behaviour using the experimental method
True
Wilhelm Wundt’s psychological view
Structuralism
Who are the major players in the humanistic approach?
Carl Rogers & Abraham Maslow
What is the Metaphor for the Humanistic approach?
People are innately good and will strive to realize goals and ambitions
What are the five levels of Maslows hierarchy of needs?
- Psychological needs
- safety needs
- belonging and love needs
- esteem needs
Self actualization needs
What psychological approach says that the mind is like a computer?
Cognitive approach
What does the cognitive view focus on?
It focuses on how people process, store and retrieve information
What does the cognitive evolutionary view focus on?
human behaviors evolved because hey helped our ancestors survive and reproduce
What view states that we are all runners in one race, competing for resources?
evolutionary
What psych view is most similar to Darwins views?
evolution
According to Kuhn, a paradigm is?
a system of theoretical assumptions used by scientists to make sense of their area
Proponents of determinism in psychology believe that:
actions of humans and animals follow physical laws
Damage to the front section of the left hemisphere (Broca’s area) will cause
problems in language production.
