Prologue Flashcards
(47 cards)
Cognitive
How the mind thinks: organization, problem solving, memorizing, language, reasoning, and depiction making
Psychodynamic Approach
How human behavior is determined by the hidden and unconscious motives or desires
Behaviorism
Studying behavior rather than the hidden mental process
Humanistic
Studying growth potential in healthy people
Biological
How the brain and body influence behavior
Sociocultural
How social surroundings and culture shape our behavior and thinking
Psychology
Study of behavior and mental process. Describing and explaining how we think act and feel.
Plato
Socrates student. Believed that mind and body were separable. All knowledge is innate
Socrates
Plato’s teacher. Believed mind and body were separable and that knowledge is innate
Aristotle
Descartes
Francis Bacon
Scientific methods
John Locke
Beloved that the mind is a blank slate at birth
Empiricism
The view that knowledge comes from experience. Science should then rely on observation and understanding.
Wilhelm Wundt
First psychological experiment and lab
Structuralism
Using introspection to study the elements of the mind
Edward Titchener
Used introspection/ structuralism to study the different elements of the mind
Introspection
Looking inward and self reflection
Functionalism
Studying down to earth emotions, memories, will power, habits, etc.
Margret Floy Washburn
First woman to receive a psych PhD
Nature Side of Nature-Nurture Issue
Humans are born with the traits they have. People; Plato, Descrates, & Charles Darwin. Natural Selection
Nurture Side of Nature-Nurture Issue
Humans develop their traits through experience. People; Aristotle & Locke
Natural Selection
Explains the structure and behavior of animals/humans
Levels of Analysis
Biological, Psychological & Social-Culture