Key Concepts 2
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- Introspection
- self observation of your own conscious experience
- Structuralism
- a school of psychology based on the notion that the task of psychology is to analyze consciousness into its basic elements and to investigate how tese elements are related
- Functionalism
- belief that psychology should investigate the function or purpose of consciousness rather, than its structure.
- Humanism
- optimistic of humans. unique qualities of humans, especially their freedom and potential for personal growth. Says that you are governed by your self.
- Psychoanalysis
- Attempt to explain personality, motivation, and mental disorders by using the unconsciousness
- Natural Selection
- States that characteristics that cause success in survival are likely to be passed on and thus become "selected" over time
- "stream of consiousness"
- The study that one does not limit itself to elements of structure
- Nature vs. Nurture
- Born with something or adapt by environment
- Stimuli
- anything that causes a response
- Psychology comes from the greek words Psyche and loges...what does that mean?
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Psyche- sole
Loges- study of - 2 main schools of though
- structuralism and functionalism