UTS CHAPTER 4 Flashcards
The root ology denotes scientific study of, and _____ refers to the scientific study of the mind. Since science studies only observable phenomena and the mind is not directly observable, we expand this definition to the scientific study of mind and behavior.
psychology
Two men, working in the 19th century, are generally credited as being the founders of psychology as a science and academic discipline that was distinct from philosophy. Their names were Wilhelm Wundt and William James.
Wilhelm wundt and William James
was a German scientist who was the first person to be referred to as a psychologist. His famous book entitled Principles of Physiological Psychology was published in 1873.
Wilhelm wundt
viewed psychology as a scientific study of conscious experience, and he believed that the goal of psychology was to identify components of consciousness and how those components combined to result in our conscious experience.
Wilhelm wudnt
a process by which someone examines their own conscious experience as objectively as possible, making the human mind like any other aspect of nature that a scientist observed.
Internal perception
being able to examine one’s conscious experience is to gain awareness of one’s self.
Wilhelm wundt
The fundamental basis of William James’s psychology-_____________ on which it is constructed-is “the stream of thought” or “the stream of consciousness. “
the-rock-bottom-foundation
The constituents of the Self may be divided into two classes, those which make up respectively
(a) The material Self;
(b) The social Self;
(c) The spiritual Self; and
(d) The pure Ego.
is the innermost part of the material Self in each of us; and certain parts of the body seem more intimately ours than the rest. The clothes come next.
The Body
Our father and mother, our wife and babes, are bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. When they die, a part of our very selves is gone. If they do anything wrong, it is our shame. If they are insulted, our anger flashes forth as readily as if we stood in their place
our immediate family
Its scenes are part of our life; its aspects awaken the tenderest feelings of affection;
Our homes
is the recognition which he gets from his mates. We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.
A man’s Social Self
so far as it belongs to the Empirical Me, it means a man’s inner or subjective being, his psychic faculties or dispositions, taken concretely. These psychic dispositions are the most enduring and intimate part of the self, that which we most verily seem to be. We take a purer self-satisfaction when we think of our ability to argue and discriminate, of our moral sensibility and conscience, of our indomitable will, than when we survey any of our other possessions.
By the Spiritual Self
s all that he is tempted to call by the name of me. But it is clear that between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.
The Empirical Self
James distinguished two understandings of the self, the self as “__” and the self as “_”.
Me and I
