Psych chap 1
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- Broca
- comprehension, but inability to produce language
- Gall
- Phrenology (bumps)
- Helmholtz
- time of nerve impulses
- Wundt
- First psych lab, analyzed consciousness
- Titchener
- structuralism
- Structuralism
- analysis of basic elements that constitute mind
- William James
- Functionalism
- functionalism
- consciousness as flowing stream, study of purposes of mental processes
- Freud
- Psychoanalysis
- Psychoanalysis
- Unconscious mental processes shape feelings, thoughts, behaviors
- Maslow
- Humanistic psychology
- Rogers
- Humanistic psychology
- Humanism
- Emphasizes the positive potential of humans
- Watson
- Behaviorism
- Behaviorism
- Objectively observable behavior
- Skinner
- Reinforcement
- Reinforcement
- consequences of a behavior will determine if behavior will occur again
- Chomsky
- cognitive psychology
- Nativism
- knowledge is innate
- Empiricism
- knowledge is acquired through experience
- Gestalt Psychology
- perceiving the whole rather than the sum of the parts
- Social psychology
- causes and consequences of interpersonal behavior
- Cultural psychology
- how cultures reflect and shape the psychological processes of its members