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hisotyr and Approaches
Term | Definition |
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Structuralism | (we are made up of?) Basic units of conscious experience |
People to associate with functionalism | William James, Darwin, Caulkins |
Humanistic psych. | Stresses human capacity for self fulfillment and conscious self awareness. Person has free will and develop potential |
Superego | (Psychoanalytic) Develops as we grow older/disobey instructions |
People to associate with Gestalt psych. | Gestalt, Werthheimer, Kofka |
Cognitive psych. | How we acquire, process, store, and remember info |
Psychoanalytic | Behavior results from unconscious forces within the person |
introspection | Subjects look inward and report reactions to stimuli/observing the mind's processes |
Unconcious/Subconcious forces | These thought processes make our behavior |
People to associate with cognitive psych. | Bandura |
Behaviorism | Study only measureable and observable behavior/all behavior is a result of learning/experience. |
Phenomenology | behavior consists of patterns and organized sets |
Individualist/collectivist | About you, independent (EX: US)/ We, us, peace (EX: Japan) |
Id | the dark energy we at born with/desire for pleasure |
People to associate with behaviorism | Watson, Pavlov, Skinner |
Biological psych. | Seeks to understand interactions btwn anatomy and physiology and behavior |
People to associate with humanistic psych. | Maslow, Rogers |
Functionalism | How an organism's mental processes allow it to function or adapt to the environment |
Ego | More conscious pleasure drive |
Gestalt psych. | "shape or form" the whole gives meaning to the individual parts (illusions) |
Socio-cultural psych. | Examination of the varying thoughts and diversity of behavior related to diff. genders, races, and cultures or ethnicities (Social influences) |
Evolutionary psych. | Evolutionary origins of behaviors and mental processes, their adaptive value, and the purposes they continue to serve. |
Nervous and Endocrine system/understanding the connection btwn anatomy&physiology is associated with what approach? | Influences the interaction in anatomy and physiology |
Self-actualization | reach full, unique potential (hierarchy of needs) |
People to associate with structuralism | Wundt, Titchener |
components of the mind/psychosexual development are associated with what approach? | psychoanalytic |
application alcoholism to psychoanalytic | consumer cannot control behavior; become more aggressive and less careful |
application alcoholism to behaviorism | ppl become alcoholics bec of lowered self-confidence, bad childhood, bad parent |
application alcoholism to gestalt | alcoholism is part of the patterns and organized sets their behavior contains |
application alcoholism to humanistic | alcoholics feel they have no purpose, don't care about their "potential"/life, no will to be the best |
application alcoholism to biological | genes from parents influence how much offspring will drink |
application alcoholism to evolutionary | anger is an evolutionary trait passed down by ancestors |
application alcoholism to socio-cultural | in some countries, drinking is frowned upon |
which approach caused the 1st major wave | psychoanalytic |
which approach caused the 2nd major wave | behaviorism |
which approach caused the 3rd major wave | humanistic |
what did socrates, plato and descartes believe in? | that we are born with knowledge (descartes: world is divided into the mind and body (dualism)) |
how did aristotle differ from socrates/plato/descartes? | knowledge is not in-born |
sir francis bacon contribution to psychology? | developed skeptical methodologies for scientific method, foundation for empiricism |
john locke contribution to psychology? | empiricism: all knowledge is obtained thru observation and experience; we are born with a tabula rosa (no in-born knowledge) |
psychology | the scientific study of behavior and cognitive processes |