Chapter 1-History Of Psychology

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Functionalism

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The purpose of behavior is to ensure survival, thinking is to produce useful behavior

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Charles Darwin

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1800s, Englishman, natural selection, functionalism

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William James

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1800s, English, father of American Psychology, functionalism, first American textbook “General Psychology”

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Sigmund Freud

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1850s, Aussie, psychoanalysis-diagnosed patients with repressed sexual desire-produced aggressive behavior

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Behaviorism

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Behavior can be explained in terms if conditioning

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Ivan Pavlov

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1850s, Russian, behaviorism, sold dog spit to cure heart burn, lab coats

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Edward Thorndike

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1870s, American, Law of Effect

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Law of Effect

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Rewards increase likelihood of repeated desired behavior and punishment decreases the likelihood of repeated undesirable behavior

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B. F. Skinner

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1990s, American, Operant Conditioning, claimed to be able to shape behavior of animals and humans, shaping

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John Watson

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1880s, American, imported behaviorism to America, Little Albert experiment, affair

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Cognitive psychology

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1960s, Viewing the mind as a computer or information system

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Biological psychology

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1990s, “Decade of the Brain”-Bill Clinton