Early Historical Figures
I developed a series of steps followed by scientific investigators to answer specific questions about the natural world, known as the scientific method.
Who is Sir Francis Bacon?
Study of behaviors and mental processes of individuals.
What is Psychology?
Seeks to find the source of our actions in the environment, rather than in our mental processes.
What is the behavioral perspective?
Personality component made up of unconscious that works to satisfy basic urges, needs, and desires.
What is the ID?
Mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.
What is Cognition?
I created the first psychological lab and am called the father of psychology.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
Comparative study of various aspects of past and present cultures.
What is Anthropology?
Examines our mental thoughts and processes as the root of our behavior, but it focuses on the positives.
What is the Humanistic perspective?
Can forgotten memories impact your present being (according to Freud)?
Yes
Act of looking inward to examine one's own mental structures of the mind and describing the experiences in a systmatic way.
What is Introspection?
I was a student of Wilhelm Wundt and helped developed introspection.
Who is Edward Titchner?
Study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior.
What is Sociology?
Looks at the important contributions that society makes to individual development. This perspective stresses the interaction between developing people and the culture in which they live.
What is the Socio-cultural perpective?
Moral part of our minds, seeks to do what is right in every situation.
What is the SUPEREGO?
How people responded to events or stimuli in the environment or their lives.
What is Behaviorism?
I witnessed the horrible conditions in prisons and mental institutions and helped guide reform.
Who is Dorthea Dix?
Study of people and events of the past.
What is History?
Looks at the smaller pieces of information and then uses that to make a meaningful whole.
What is the Gestalt perspective?
Freud developed psychoanalysis---True or False?
True
Study of theory and practice of government and politics at the local, state, national, and international levels.
What is Political Science?
I developed functionalsim, the perspective that defines mental states by their function and focuses on how the brain behavior that responds to the environment.
Who is William James?
Study of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
What is Economics?
Examines our cognition and then the way we process our daily and life events within our environment.
What is the Cognitive perspective?
The part of the mind that attempts to compromise between the superego and id.
What is the EGO?
Basic research component of psychology; professionals can work in university setting, government, research institute, or private businesses like a pharmaceutical company.
What is the Experimental area of psychology?