psych 1
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- stability vs. change
- doescertain situations change our personality? can you have certain characteristics when you're younger but not older?
- Jean Piaget
- studied children
- behaiorism
- learned processes
- Edward Titchener
- wunds student, used structuralism
- gestalt
- sum is great than the parts
- skinner
- operant conditioning
- behavioral
- observable response, learned
- John watson
- dismissed introspection, redefined psych as the science of observable behavior, used UCR
- William James
- used pragmatism, was ill, had depression
- humanistic
- need support, positive side
- Bacon
- one of founders of modern science, used experiments, common sense
- philosophy
- study of thinking, greek word for wisdom
- socio cultural
- how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures, ethnic p.o.v.
- rationality vs. irrationality
- extent to which our thoughts and actions arelogical and efficient and the extent to which they are prone to inaccuracy
- rene descartes
- mind separatefromthe body, disected animals, found nerves enable reflexes
- psychoanalysis
- past experiences view outburst as outlet for unconscious hostility
- biological behavior genetics
- study how heredity and experience affect our temperament
- psychology
- scientific study of behavioral and mental processes, more of a way of asking and answering questions, first defined as mental life
- functionalism
- emphasized significance of behavior and meant processes, how we adapt, survive
- Ivan Pavlov
- pioneered study of learning
- Locke
- mind and body together, blank slate- tabula rasa
- structuralism
- used introspection to examine basic structure of mind
- Pragmatism
- tested truth by practical consequence
- biological neuroscience
- study of brain circuits structure and chemicals
- cognitive
- how we encode, process, store, and retrieve info
- historical roots
- biology and philosophy
- positive psych
- unconscious motives, what keeps us healthy