Structuralism
Father of Psychology
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
The 1st American Psychologist
Who is William James?
Austrian neurologist that was fascinated with patients who suffered from hysteria and neurosis
Who is Sigmund Freud?
German Psychologists
Who are Kohler, Koffka, and Wertheimer
Father of Behaviorism
John Watson
Was a student who translated Wundt's work to English
Who is Edward Titchener?
Key Theory
What is natural selection leads organisms to adapt their behavior?
The unconscious mind
What is the part of our mind outside of our awareness?
The meaning of Gestalt
What is "whole"?
Discovered classic conditioning
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
Focus on contents of mental process rather than their function
What is Edward's Titchener's expansion of Wundt's views?
Theorist and Theory inspired Functionalism
What is Charles Darwin and "Survivial of the Fittest"
The ways one gains access to the unconscious mind
What is dream analysis, first word that comes to mind, and slip of the tongue?
What is sensation and perception?
Classical Conditioning
What is a learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired?
Describes what you are experiencing
What is Wilhelm Wundt's views on structuralism?
The operation that funcitionalists were focused on
What is whole mind?
Psychoanalysis
What is therapy based on Freud's ideas that focuses on early childhood development
What is sensory experiences being broken down into individual parts and how those parts relate to each other and how the individual responds to it
Little Albert Study
What is Watson creating phobias using the conditioning technique discovered by Pavlov?
Introspection
What is a process by which someone examines their own conscious experience as objectively as possible
How our perception helped us survive over time
What is functionalism?
The three levels of the mental iceberg and its contents
What are 1. Concsious Level: thoughts and perceptions, 2. Preconscious level: memories, stored knowledge, 3. Unconscious level: fears, selfish needs, unacceptable sexual desires, violent motives, shameful experiences
The country where it was influential
What is Germany?
B.F. Skinner's views
What is concentrated on how behavior was affected by its consequences; reinforcement or punishment?