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21 Cards in this Set
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Psychology |
Science of Behavior and Mental Process |
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Goals of Psychology |
1. Description: describe observation, "What" 2. Explaination: Why, theory. 3. Prediction: Will it happen again? 4. Control: How can it be changed? |
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Date of Birth of Psychology |
1879 (137 years old) |
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First Laboratory |
University of Leipzig, Germany |
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Founder of Psychology |
Wundt |
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Objective introspection |
Subjective observation of one's own experience (Wundt) |
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Structuralism Founder |
Titchener |
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Structuralism |
-Basic elements of the mind -Categorized to determine structure of mental processes and higher thinking |
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Founder of Functionalism |
William James |
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Functionalism |
How the mind allows people to adapt, live, work and play |
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Influences of Functionalism |
Educational Psychology Evolutionary Psychology Industrial/organized Psychology |
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Gestalt psychology |
"Good figure" psychology Ability to acquire and maintain meaningful perception Mind forms a global whole with self organizing tendencies |
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Gestalt psychologist |
Kurt koffka Wertheimer Kohler |
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Kurt Koffka |
Whole is greater than sum of its parts |
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Wertheimer |
Sensation and perception |
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Kohler |
Learning and problem solving |
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Psychoanalysis Founder |
Freud |
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Psychoanalysis |
-Patients with nervous disorder with no found physical cure -Unconscious desires -Early childhood experiences -Dream analysis |
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Behaviorism |
-Science of Behavior that focus on observable behavior only E.g. conditioning |
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Behaviorism Founder |
John B. Watson |
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Contemporary approaches to psychology |
- Behavioral - Psychodynamic - Cognitive - Biopsychological - Evolutional psychology - Sociocultural - Humanist |
