psych notes (intro)
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Psychology: is the scientific study of human behavior and mental process
Important term: scientific
- Social science (most scientific)
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History
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- Pre-scientific
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Socrates and plato: knowledge is within
- introspection: examine one’s own thoughts and feelings
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Aristotle- knowledge grows from experience stored in our minds
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Francis Bacon
- Developed scientific method ( modern psych relies on method )
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- Psychology is born - 1879
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Wilhem Wundt - established the 1st psych experimental lab
- Introspection and lab observation
- With Edward Titchne__r developed __structuralism - conscious experience is broke into
- Objective sensations (observable)
- Subjective feelings (internal)
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- The mind functions by combining the two
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Gestalt - consciousness can be best understood by observing it as a total experience rather than breaking it down
- Opposed to structuralist who break it down
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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)
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Sigmund Frioud - Psychoanalysis : unconscious motives and internal conflicts determine behavior
- Most famous psychologist
- Part of pop culture
- A lot of his thought has sexual in nature
- Data and notetaking isn’t much in a scientific approach
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John B Watson - Behaviorism: The study if Psych should be limited to observable behavior
- The only thing that matters w him is observable behavior (take it to an extreme)
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B.F. Skinner - Behaviorism: introduced the concept of reinforcement to control and maintain behavior - (good doggy)