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| Individuals sensations, perceptions, memories, thoughts, dreams |
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| Humans consist of two distinct but conjoined entities- a material body, and an immaterial soul.(seventeenth century) |
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| The science of behavior and the mind |
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| Wrote Treatise of Man and The passions of the soul, Descartes believed in Dualism, but he believed that many of the duties that were thought to be assigned to the soul were actually assigned to the body |
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| refers to observable actions of an individual person or animal |
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-Believed that more things were mechanical
-Since Church dualism said that animals were machines, he used this as proof that the things that animals and humans both did must be mechanical
- Humans had thought ( concious deliberation and judgement) animals dont |
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| small place between the two hemispheres of the brain that is the place where concious thought occurs. |
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| there is no soul. All there is is matter and energy. All human behavior, including voluntary choices can be understood in terms of physical processes in the body. |
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Came along around the same time as Descartes
- In his book Leviathon, he created materialism |
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Hobbe's work inspired this school of thought
-the idea that all human knowledge and thought ultimately derive from sensory experience.
- the human mind consists of basic units which originate from sensory experiences. These elementary ideas become associated in certain ways baised on the pattern of sensory experiences |
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| elementary ideas are innate to the human mind and do not need to be gained through experience |
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all human behavoir is because of reflexes,even "volutary" actions occur because of complex string of reflexes
- spokesperson= Sechenov |
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| the science of the bodies machinery |
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| diff parts of the brain serve diff functions of mental processes and behavior |
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considered the founder of scientific psychology
- worked on the time it took to process info
-foundations for cognitive psychology |
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| Titchener and Structuralism |
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proper goal of psuch is to identify the elements of the mind and determine how they combine with one another
-study elementary concious experiences, which he considered the minds "building blocks" |
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| looking inside oneself as a way to study psych-titchner was a fan of this method |
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created FUNCTIONALISM
opposite of structuralism; look at the big picture first
-influenced by darwin |
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studied animals, like rats
Founder of BEHAVIORISM
believed that studying the mind only obscured the explanation of behavior |
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| study of animal behavior in their natural environment |
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the mind must be understood in the terms of organized wholes, not elementary parts
ex. when you see a chair, you see A CHAIR, and then the parts |
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Psychoanalysis
bringing memories out to patients convious attention so they could deal with them.
-unconcious mind |
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| study of psychological differences among peeps from diff cultural groups and the influence said cultures have on their thoguhts, feelings, behavior |
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| the attempt to understand and explain how the thought, feeling, and behavior of individuals arer influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others |
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linguist
innate capacities for language |
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