The Roots of Psychology

Question 1

Psychology

Answer 1

The science of behavior and mental processes

Question 2

Empiricism

Answer 2

The view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should therefore rely on observation and experimentation.

Question 3

Wilhelm Wundt

Answer 3

Father of psychology

Created the first laboratory in psychology for studying humans.

Question 4

Introspection

Answer 4

The scientific procedure to study feelings.

Question 5

Structuralism

Answer 5

Structure of the human mind

Introspection

Wundt and Titchener

Question 6

William James

Answer 6

One of the founders of American Psychology

Published the Principles of Psychology: the first major psychology textbook in the US

Examine the individual as a whole.

Question 7

Functionalism

Answer 7

How mental and behavioral processes function

How they enable an organism to adapt, survive, and flourish

Influenced by Darwin and William James

Question 8

Gestalt Psychology

Answer 8

Emphasize our tendency to integrate pieces of information to meaningful wholes

Tendency to fill in gaps/bits and pieces put together

Max Wertheheimer.

Question 9

Psychoanalysis

Answer 9

Sigmund Freud

Importance of the unconscious mind and its effects on human behavior.

Question 10

Behaviorism

Answer 10

Watson and Skinner

Psychology should only focus on the objective, NOT the thoughts or feelings of the test subject

Question 11

Nature versus Nurture Issue

Answer 11

The relative contribution that genes (nature) and experience (nurture/environment) make to development.