Physchology
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- Structuralism
- focuses on basic elements that constitute the foundation of perception, consciousness, thinking, emotions, and other kinds of mental states
- Introspection
- A procedure used to study the structure of the mind in which subjects are asked to describe in detail what they are experiencing when they are exposed to a stimulus
- Functionalism
- early approach to psychology that concentrated on what the mind does and the role of behavior in allowing people to adapt to their enviroments
- Gestalt Psychology
- an approach that focuses on the organization of perception and thinking in a whole sense rather than on the individual elements of perception
- 5 Perspectives
- Neuroscience, psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, and humanistic
- Neuroscience Perspective
- biological functioning
- Psychodynamic Perspective
- behavior is motivated by inner unconscious forces over which person has little control
- Behavioral perspective
- Observable behavior
- Cognitive Perspective
- examines how people understand and think about the world
- Humanistic Perspective
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Contends that people can control their behavior and that they naturally try to reach their full potential.
FREE WILL - Historical Roots of Psychology?
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Established by Wilhelm Wundt in Germany in 1879
Structuralism, functionalism, and gestalt theory - Free Will
- behavior is caused primarily by choices that are made freely by the individual
- Determinism
- people's behavior is produced by factors outside of their willful control
- Psychology's key issues and controversies?
- Nature vs Nurture
- What is the science of Pyschology?
- study of behavior and mental processes, ecompassing not just waht people do but their biological activities, feelings, perceptions, memory, reasoning, and thoughts