Intro to Psyhology Ch 1 - Lahey
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- essence (breath) of life, Aristotle
- psyche
- science of behavior & mental processes
- Psychology
- 3 Parts of Psychology
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1) Science
2) Behavior
3) Mental Processes - 4 Goals of Psychology
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1) Describe
2) Predict
3) Understand
4) Influence - First Psychology Lab - 1879
- Wilhelm Wundt
- founders of structuralism
- Wundt & Tichner
- study of the structure of the mind through controlled introspection
- structuralism
- looking inward at one's own conscious experience - elemental contents of one's own mind
- introspection
- studied sensations of heat & cold
- J. Henry Alston
- the whole
- gestalt
- studied gestalt psychology
- Max Wertheimer
- perception of apparent movemement between 2 statinary stimuli - the whole is different from the sum of its parts
- phi phenomenon
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Harvard University Lab - 1875
Father of American Psychology - studied functionalism - William James
- emphasis on the useful functions of the conscious mind
- functionalism
- functions of the mind are key to survival
- thinking, learning, feeling, remembering