WEEK 2: History of Psychology Flashcards
The first psychologist who established the first psychology laboratory
WILHELM WUNDT
A German psychologist who viewed psychology as a scientific study of conscious experience
WILHELM WUNDT
The attempt to understand the structure or characteristics of the mind
STRUCTURALISM
Three (3) important elements of the mind/consciousness
SENSATION, IMAGES, FEELINGS
Who founded and developed the structuralist school of psychology?
WILHELM WUNDT and EDWARD B. TITCHENER
First American psychologist who espoused a different perspective on how psychology should operate
WILLIAM JAMES
Focused on how mental activities helped an organism fit into its environment
FUNCTIONALISM
An Austrian neurologist who was fascinated by patients suffering from “hysteria” and neurosis
SIGMUND FREUD
An approach to human behavior that focuses on early childhood experiences and the role of unconscious thoughts, feelings, and memories
PSYCHOANALYSIS
The _____________ could be accessed through dream analysis, by examinations of the first word that came to people’s mind, and through seemingly innocent slips of the tongue
UNCONSCIOUS MIND
Three German psychologists who founded the Gestalt school of thought
MAX WERTHEIMER, KURT KOFFKA, WOLFGANG KOHLER
“Human perception is not just about seeing what is actually present in the world around us. It is also heavily influenced by our motivations and expectations.”
GESTALT PSYCHOLOGY
The whole is more than the sum of its part
GESTALT
A Russian psychologist who studied a form of learning called a conditioned reflex
IVAN PAVLOV
An animal or human produced an unconscious reflex to a stimulus, and overtime, was conditioned to produce the response to a different stimulus that the experimenter associated to the original stimulus
CLASSICAL CONDITIONING
One way to explain phobias and sexual disorders
CLASSICAL CONDITIONING
An influential American psychologist whose most famous work occurred during the early 20th century at Johns Hopkins University
JOHN B. WATSON
Focus directly on the observable behavior and try to bring that behavior under control
BEHAVIORISM
A behaviorist who concentrated on how behavior was affected by its consequence
BURRHUS FREDERIC SKINNER
Behavior that is followed by pleasant consequences is likely to be repeated, and behavior followed by unpleasant consequences is less likely to be repeated.
OPERANT CONDITIONING
Humanists who influenced the humanism school of thought
ABRAHAM MASLOW, CARL ROGERS
Emphasizes the potential for good that is innate to all humans
HUMANISM
Key elements of Humanistic approacg
Freedom of choice, unconditional positive regard, underlying motivation to achieve self-actualization
“There is evil within us”
PSYCHOANALYSIS
“There is an underlying motivation to do good in us”
HUMANISM
Pioneer of cognitive psychology
ULRIC NEISSER
We are capable of thinking; processing information
COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Use of language; we are capable of speaking
LANGUAGE THEORY
Who developed the language acquisition theory?
NOAM CHOMSKY
Ama ng Sikolohiyang Pilipino
VIRGILIO B. ENRIQUEZ
It manifested its beginning when in the 1960s, the UP Community Development Research Council challenged the applicability of Western concepts, theories, and research tools, and subsequently embarked upon researches on Filipino concepts and indigenous cultural forms
SIKOLOHIYANG PILIPINO (SP)
The father of modern psychology
WILHELM WUNDT
Head of the 1st Department of Psychology, at UP
AGUSTIN ALONZO
Established the 1st psychological clinic at UP
SINFRONSO PADILLA
Set up the FEU psychological clinic
JESUS PERPINAN
Dean of the College of Education at NU (National University)
ELIAS BUMATAY
Started the psychology program at PWU and set up the Phil. Psychological Corp.
ESTEFANIA ALDABA-LIM
Headed the Psychology Dept of UP (22 years)
ALFREDO LAGMAY
Led the personnel dept. of Caltex Phils
MARIANO OBIAS
Established the Dept. of Psych at ADMU
JAIME BULATAO
