Ch.1 and 2 Flashcards
(21 cards)
Who was the father of psychology and founder of structuralism?
Wilhelm Wundt
Who used structuralism and introspection?
Edward Titchener
Who was the first female president of the APA?
Marry Winton Calkins
Who was the first female to receive a PH.D.?
Margaret Floy Washburn
What laid the groundwork for psychodynamic perspective?
Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis
What did structuralism evolve into?
Functionalism
Structuralism and functionalism eventually laid the ground work for what?
The cognitive perspective
What is functionalism?
An early school of thought promoted by James and influenced by Darwin, it explored how mental and behavior process function - how they enable the organism to adapt, survive and flourish
Who invented functionalism?
William James
What is Neuroscience?
Body and brain enable emotion and sensory experiences
What is evolitionary-natural selection?
Promotion of certain genes, survival of certain genes
What is behavioral genetics?
Our genes and our environment influence our individual differences
Describe psychodynamic
How behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts
Describe Behavioral.
how we learn observable responses.
How we encode, process, store and retrieve information is….
Cognitive
What should be avoided?
Overconfidence, Hindsight bias, and perceiving order in random events
What should be embraced?
Curiosity, Skepticism, and Humility
To observe and record..
Descriptive
To detect naturally occurring relationships
Correlational
To explore cause and effect
Experimental
Method involved manipulation
Experimental research
