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| Structuralism (Wilhelm Wundt) |
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| Wilhelm Wundt's personspective on psychology: The idea that the conscience were created by different elements. |
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| Wanted to know what thought processes enabled us to experience the eternal world. He wanted to know what elements combined (like H20) would explain mental experiences. |
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| Introspection (Wilhelm Wundt) |
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Self-observation technique. Trained observers were presented with an event and asked to describe their mental processes.
How did he influence psychology: Through this students, many of whom went on to establish psychology departments and laboratories in the United States |
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First US professor of psychology. Responsible for introducing experimental psychology to US college students.
Believed psychological processes developed through the process of evolution.
He studied how the conscience helps an organism adapts to the environment. His perspective was known as Functionalism. |
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| Functionalism (William Jones) |
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| Psychological perspective concerned with how behavior helps people adapt to their environment. |
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| Freud first studied medicine, focused on neurology and disorders of the nervous system, such as fear or horses, heights, or sudden paralysis of the arm. Freud believed that the unconscious plays a crucial role in human behavior. The unconscious is the part of the mind that includes impulses, behavior and desires we are unaware of but influences our behavior.g |
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