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| the scientific study of mind and behavior. |
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Plato: Favor of Nativism(born w/ innate knowledge)
Aristotle: Philosophical Empiricism (born blank slates) |
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applying methods from physiology to psychology.
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The analysis of the basic elements that constitute the mind. |
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stimulus: sensory input from the environment
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reaction time: the amount of time taken to respond to specific stimulus.
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1)consciousness: a person's subjective experience of the world and the mind.
2)Father of Psychology.
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1)wanted to find out elements of consciousness
2) opened first Psychological research lab (birth of Psych as it's own branch) |
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Purpose: understand the functions mental processs serve.
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The study of the Purpose mental processes serve in enabling people to adapt to their environment. |
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1) brought psychology into the U.S
2) "Consciousness is a flowing stream" not "chunk" |
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finding put emotion/past experiences
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Sigmund Freud's approach to understand human behavior that emphasizes the importance of unconscious mental process in shaping feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. |
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| theorized that many of the patients' problems could be traced to the suggested that powerful influence of these seemingly lost memories revealed the presence of an UNCONSCIOUS mind. |
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| the part of the mind that operates outside of conscious awareness but influences thoughts, feeling, and action. |
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| used to bring unconsciousness into consciousness |
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| An approach to understanding human nature that emphasizes the positive potential of human beings. |
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| Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers pioneered a new movement called |
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| an approach that advocates that psychologists restrict themselves to the scientific study of objectively observable behavior. |
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-behavior observation
-environment influences behavior
-performed "Little Albert" experiment
-"Fear are learned, not inherited" |
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-reinforcement: "Skinner's Box" (rat in box learned to get food)
-reinforcement/consequences shape behavior |
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| scientific study of mental processes, including perception, thought, memory, and reasoning. |
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| German Psychology, his interpretation of the illusion led to the development of GESTALT PSYCHOLOGY. |
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-Development of Human Mind
-"Younger children have lower mental capacity than older children."
-tested through cognitive & perception |
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Brain=hardware
mind=software |
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| A psychological approach that explain mind and behavior in term of the adaptive value of abilities that are preserved over time by natural selection. |
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| A subfield of psychological that studies the causes and consequences of interpersonal behavior. |
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-Prenatal
-Infancy
-Adolencense
-Adulthood |
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holds that culture makes little or no difference for most psychological phenomena.
"it doesn't matter where we come from"-we're basically the same |
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holds that psychological phenomena are likely to vary considerable across cultures and should be viewed only in the context of a specific culture.
"We have to look at all cultures separately & it does affect us as people" |
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