Chapter 1 - Study of Psychology

Psychology

Psychology

________ emphasizes learning about people by observation.

Cognitive neuroscience

how we think and how the brain is structured.

First psychologist

Wilhelm Wundt

Cognitive neuroscience

• how we think and how the brain is structured

Key Elements of the Scientific Attitude

Curiosity, Skepticism, Humility

Wilhelm Wundt

Started the first psychology laboratory

1879

First psychology laboratory created

Mary Whiton Calkins

First woman president of the American Psychological Association

Sigmund Freud

Founder of psychotherapy/counseling

Psychodynamic (Psychoanalytic) Approach

Freud (late 1890s-1930s) -- internal (determinalistic)

Behavioral Approach

John Watson and BF Skinner (1930s-1950s) -- external (determinalistic)

Humanistic Approach

Carl Rogers (1960s-1970s) -- free will (choice)

Cognitive Approach

Aaron Beck (1980s-1990s) -- how we think

Cognitive Neuroscience

how we think and how the brain is structured