psych notes (intro)

Socrates

________ and plato: knowledge is within.

Aristotle

________- knowledge grows from experience stored in our minds.

Sigmund Frioud

________- Psychoanalysis: unconscious motives and internal conflicts determine behavior.

Psychology

________: is the scientific study of human behavior and mental process.

William James Functionalism

________- consciousness works to help people to adapt to their environment.

Gestalt

________- consciousness can be best understood by observing it as a total experience rather than breaking it down.

John B Watson

________- Behaviorism: The study if Psych should be limited to observable behavior.

Wilhem Wundt

________- established the 1st psych experimental lab.

Introspection

________: examine ones own thoughts and feelings.

BF Skinner

________- Behaviorism: introduced the concept of reinforcement to control and maintain behavior- (good doggy)

Psychology

is the scientific study of human behavior and mental process

Important term

scientific

Socrates and plato

knowledge is within

introspection

examine ones own thoughts and feelings

Psychology is born

1879

Wilhem Wundt

established the 1st psych experimental lab

With __Edward Titchne__r developed structuralism

conscious experience is broke into

Gestalt

consciousness can be best understood by observing it as a total experience rather than breaking it down

William James/Functionalism

consciousness works to help people to adapt to their environment

Wrote the 1st modern book of psychology in 1890

The Principles of Phycology (is seen as father of psychology bc of that)