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This method of studying psychology focused exclusively on rewards and punishments, insisting that was the ONLY kind of learning.
What is Behaviorism?
While this person's theories of the unconscious are quite well known, and were widely influential, they were wrong about pretty much everything.
Who was Sigmund Frued?
...that this kind of memory has no maximum time limit.
What is Long Term Memory?
Breaking the mind down into it's simplest parts was the goal of this ill-fated early study effort
What is Structuralism?
While he may have written the first widely-accepted psychological textbook, even he thought at the time that psychology had only "the hope of a science"
Who is William James?
...that this term we used to use for brief, limited capacity memory is out dated, as it does not fully account for human abilities.
What is Short Term Memory?
This describes the, incorrect, thought that it is the raw pattern of stimuli that we receive with our senses that determines the experiences we have in life.
What is Philosophical Realism?
His famous "box" might be a small cage, but is shockingly one of the nicest things historical psychology did to rats.
Who was B.F. Skinner?
...that this describes not just an event occurring, but someone's specific, likely emotional, experience of it.
What is an Episodic Memory?
This field of study could look at how you're reading this very question! Or, more generally, how people process information.
What is Cognitive Psychology?
Alexander von Helmholtz discovered this element of how our nervous system works. Good thing nerve signals can't get tickets...
What is the transmission speed?
...that this area may be important for new memories, but is specifically not where memories are actively stored.
What is the Hippocampus?
Someone examining how people change as the go through their lives is studying this.
What is Developmental Psychology?
This philosopher seemed to really like refuting John Locke, as he proposed both Philosophical Idealism and Philosophical Nativism. He also comes up a lot in The Good Place.
Who was Emmanuel Kant?
...that our memories can be affected by things like our current mood, or how we wish the past had really been. Collectively referred to as this general, logic-defying human trait
What is Bias?