Structuralism
The founder of structuralism is...
What is Edward Titchener
The founder of functionalism is...
What is William James?
The founder of behaviourism is...
What is John Watson?
One of the founders of cognitivism is...
What is Jean Piaget?
The founder of psychoanalysis is...
What is Sigmund Freud?
The psychologist who proposed the phenomenon of "imageless thought," that doubts the theories of structuralists
What is Oswald Kulpe?
Functionalists were influenced by Darwin who proposed the theory of
What is Natural Selection?
Behaviourists see the human mind as a
What is a "black box"?
The school of psychology that proposes that our thinking affects our behaviour is
What is Cognitive Psychology?
The slips of the tongue
What is "Freudian Slips"?
Structuralist emphasized the importance of ... to study the conscious experience
What is observation?
While structuralists ask "what" questions, functionalists ask
What is "Why" questions?
Behaviouralist's believed that psychology was ... and not ...
(terms: objective and subjective)
What is "objective" (hard facts) and "subjective" (emotions, personality)?
Unlike behaviouralists, cognitivism tells psychologists to peak inside the "black box". Why?
What is to see the interactions between inputs and outputs?
What is early years of life and experiences faced then?
This phenomenon demonstrated that important aspects of human psychology lie beyond conscious awareness and provided a blow to the theory of structuralism
What is the phenomenon of imageless thought?
This framework said that psychologist should act as ... to figure out the evolved functions that psychological traits serve for organisms
What is detectives?
Behaviouralist thought that the technique of introspection and studying the unconscious mind was not a waste of time.
(True or False)
What is FALSE?
Two students may react to the same grade, a B+, in different ways. One may be happy and the other may be disappointed. Cognitivists say these different reactions stem from...
What is a student's differing interpretation of what these grades mean to them?
Understand that most of our mental processing aren't forced by outside influences, but rather
What is unconscious drive and awareness?
Structuralist dreamed of creating a comprehensive map of elements of consciousness (i.e., images, sensations, and feelings), like the periodic table, using the method
What is William Wundt's method of introspection.
William James, who rejected structuralists' approach and coined the term that describes the ever-changing, non static elements of consciousness as
What is "stream of consciousness"?
The behaviouralist who discovered that learning was associated with reward (to increase behaviour) or punishment (to decrease behaviour)
What is B.F. Skinner?
This cognitivist led the argument that thinking is so central to psychology that it deserves special attention and own branch dedicated to it
What is Ulric Neisser?
A controversial argument of a psychoanalyst's way of thinking
(One side)
1. slowed the process of scientific psychology because it focused too much on unconscious awareness. -> difficult to falsify
(Other side)
2. others argue that important parts of mental processing goes on the outside of conscious awareness have been supported by research.