Unit 1 Flashcards
Roots?
India, china, Middle East, and Europe
Buddha and Confucius
Focused on powers and origin of ideas
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle?
Ancient Hebrews pondered wether mind and body are connected or distinct and wether human ideas are innate or result from experience.
What did the ideas of bacon and Locke contribute to?
The development of modern empiricism
Wilhelm Wundt
German philosopher and founder of first psychological lab in 1879
Psychology sub fields?
- basic research (done by biological, developmental,cognitive, educational, personality, and social psychologists)
- applied research (conducted by industrial org. And human factors psychologists.
- clinical sci and applications (work of counseling and clinical psychologists)
Empiricism
View tht knowledge originates in experience and science should be observations and experimentation.
Socrates and Plato?
Concluded mind is separable from body and continues after body dies and knowledge is innate-born within us.
Descartes
Hydraulics of simple reflex
Titchener
Used introspection to search for the minds structural elements
Structuralism
Early school of psych used introspection
Functionalism
School of psych that focused on mental behavioral process
William James and Mary calkins
James mentored calkins who became first women to be the president of the APA (American psych assc.)
Margaret Washburn
1st women to receive a psych phd -animal behavior
Sigmund Freud
Father of psych
