Psychology Test Prep

American Psychological Association (APA)(founded in 1892)

Very important people

wilhelm wurdt

-Birth of psychology; 1879; leipzing, germany

    -created the first lab

    -sensation and perception

-wilhelm created structualism (focasing on imidate thoughts and feelings)

    -the idea that you can analize your own thoughts

william james

-first psychology class at harvard

-birthed functionalism

    - understanding the purpose and utility of mental processes and behaviors

    -specifically how they help organisms to adapt, survive, and fuction in their environment

-avent behavior

    -what they did and didnt do

-he wanted to and tryed to see into the mind

G. Stanley Hall

-Established a psychological lab in the US

    -1883

    -John Hopkins University

    -first president of the APA

Clive Wearing

-conteperary musician

-lost his memory

    -started with a headache then fever

    -herpes simplex encephalitis

    -damage to the hippocampus (storage of memory)

        -damaged left and right lobes of the hippocampus

        -memory problems

            -cannot show eposodic memory

            -doesnt know knowing of anything that has happened since his accident

            -has longterm memory

    -due to the damage in his hippocampus he cannot control his emotions

            -raw human emotions

            -quick to anger

-has semmantic memory

Becky Sharo

-HSAM (highly surperior autobiographical memory)

-only autistic person with HSAM

-reliving/ reexpiriancing

-sequentail way of thinking (chapter book)

-she thinks its strange we forget

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