Unit 1 Module 1 Flashcards
(24 cards)
3 branches of psych
Structural
Functional
Behaviorism
Titchener
Wundt’s student
Structural elements of the mind
Trained people to report experiences using 5 senses
Empiricism
Knowledge is derived from sense experience
John Locke
Wrote “An Essay Concerning Human Understandings”
Mind at birth is a blank state
Socrates and Plato
Ancient Greece
Mind is separable from body and continued after death
Innate- knowledge is born within
Structuralism
A school thought by Wundt; used to reveal the structure of human mind
Rene Descartes
Frenchman 2000 years after S&P Agreed with S&P Dissected animals Interested in nerves and how everything is connected
Aristotle
Plato’s student
Disagreed
Knowledge grows from our memories
Wilhelm Wundt
Measured atoms of the mind
Created 1st psych lab
Carl Rodgers and Abraham Malow
Drew attention to ways current environmental influences nurture growth
Wanted to know the need for love
Washburn
2nd APA president
Wrote book about animal behavior called the animal mind
Mary Calking
Tutored by Williams
Treated unequal bc she was a woman
Refused her degree
1st APA president
William James
Considered the evolved functions of thoughts and feelings
Sigmund Freud
Focused on childhood memories
Science of mental life
John B Watson and BF Skinner
Suggested behavior us learned through a process called conditioning
Skinner: studied how consequences shaped behavior
Budda
Wondered how sensations formed idea
Confucius
Stressed power of ideas and importance of an educated mind
Francis bacon
Found modern day science
Experimental
Believed mind and body are not connected
Socrates
Plato
Descartes
Believed ideas are inborn
Socrates
Plato
Believe our minds start out as a blank slate
Aristotle
Locke
Thought about the minds structure
Titchener
Thought about the minds functions
Darwin
William James
Mary Calkins
Washburn
Thought about the minds behavior
John B Watson
Rosalie Rayner
BF Skinner
Sigmund Freud
