AP Psych unit 1 johanna

Psychology

study of behavior, thoughts, and mental processes

Behavior

Action, anything an organism does.

Natural processes - the mind, cognition, thoughts/feelings

Trephination

stone age humans make holes in ppl’s heads to release spirits

Greek Philosopher

Hippocrates

4 Humors

yellow bile - choleric/angry

black bile - melancholic

phlegm - phlematic/sluggish

Blood - sanguine/happy

Introspection

people record their cognitive reactions to simple stimuli

Wilhelm Wundt

Father of modern psych, structuralist

G Stanley Hall

founded APA

Functionalism

functions of the mind, reasons behind mental processes, mental processes understood in terms of their purpose and function

William James

The Principles of Psychology (1890)

Structuralism

Structures of the mental contents

gestalt psychology

Wertheimer’s school of thought that focuses on looking at the mind and human perception as unified, organized wholes rather than isolated parts

gestalt person

Max Wertheimer

behaviorism

observable events

Classical Conditioning

Pavlov Dog

Psychoanalysis

mental disorders arise from conflict within the unconscious mind

Herman von Helmholz

first to conduct experiments in the nervous system

Mary Whiton Calkins

First woman president of the APA

Dorothea Dix

Reformer, addressed the needs of the mentally ill

Margaret Floyd Washburn

first woman to get a psych PhD