Chapter 1 Module 1

Psychology

Scientific study of behavior and the mental process

Observable and Measurable

What are the qualifications for something to be considered a behavior

Mental Process

Our dreams and perception (difficult to fact check and quantify)

Cognitive

Thought=_________

Dualism

Mind and body are seperate

Socrates and Descartes

What two people support the idea of dualism

Monism

Mind and body are one

Aristotle

Who supports the idea of monism

Empiricism

the idea that which we know comes from experience and observation/experimentation enable scientific knowledge

Bacon, Locke, and Rasa

What three people support the idea of empiricism

Wilhelm Wundt

Who founded the idea of experimental and structuralism psychology

Objective and Subjective

What two structures were created from structuralism

What you can see (5 senses)

What does Objective measure

What you feel/experience

What does Subjective measure

William James

Who created the idea of functionalism

Cognitive approach

What is the approach on how we organize, sense, and perceive (how we organize information)

Cognitive approach

What is “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts”

Figure ground, Similarity, Proximity

What are examples of a cognitive approach

John B. Watson

Who created behavioralism

Skinner

Who created the idea of operant Conditioning

Behavioralism

What uses the environment to explain behaviors and mental processes

Biological

What uses the nervous system to explain out behaviors and mental processes

Pavlov

Who created the idea of classical conditioning

Mary Calkin

First female apa president; completed a Ph. D. under William James that Harvard refused o award her

Margaret Washburn

First official female psychology Ph. D.; second female apa president

William James

Who is an american functionalist

Structuralism (conscious)

An early school of thought that emphasized introspection as a tool to discover the structures of the mind

Descartes

French philosopher who believed the mind and body are seperate

Experimental Psychology

The filed of psychology that conducts experiments to study behavior and thinking

Bacon

A British researcher who emphasized observation and experimentation

Behaviorism

the field of psychology that believes only observable behavior is worthy of studying

Locke

A British philosopher who believed the mind at birth is a ‘tabula rasa’ (clean slate)

Humanistic psychology

Psychological perspective that emphasizes growth potential of healthy humans

freud

Who emphasized the way emotions respond to childhood experiences and our unconsious thought processes effect our behavior

the science of mental life

What did Freud define psychology as

The scientific study of observable behavior

what did skinner and watson redefine psychology as

Freudian psychology

What emphasized the way our unconsious thought process and our emotional responses the childhood experiences affect our behavior

Led the field of psychology to its early interest in mental processes

what did the cognitive revolution lead to

Cognitive neuroscience

The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition