Psych 111 - MODERN TRAJECTORY

Weber

Real world

Fechner

Perceived World

Helmholtz

• How nerves work? Send and Receive

• Time gaps between perception and sensation. Nerves take time to send signals to the brain.

Structuralism

• What makes up our consciousness.

• Founded by Wilhelm Wundt.

Introspection

• Ask ppl to talk about what’s happening within their own mind.

Functionalism

• Focus on what to do with our consciousness. What’s its function?

• Founded by William James

Psychoanalysis

• Founded by Sigmund Freud

• We are controlled by our unconscious mind

Behaviorism

• Only focused on the observable behavior, everything else sucks.

Humanism

• Reaction to dehumanization of psychology.

• Belief that all humans have the capacity for good

Cognitive

• Rise of computers

• Shift to look inward toward internal processes within the mind.

• Founded by Kurt Lewin

• Focused on the understanding of interpretations

Social

Real or imagined others affecting out behaviors and our cognition

Biopsychosocial

• Genes, Brains, Environments, Nurture, Social components of current situation needed for survival.