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Wilhelm Wundt
Established the first psychology
laboratory at the University of
Leipzig, Germany
Seeked to measure "atoms of the
mind"
Added two key elements to enhance
scientific nature of psychology:
carefully measured observations, experiments
Structuralism
describing the mind's structures based on introspection
Edward Titchener
like his teacher
Wundt, used data from introspection,
reporting on sensations and other
elements of experience.
introspection
the examination or observation of one's own mental and emotional processes - proved somewhat unreliable. It required smart, verbal people, and its results varied from person to person and experience to experience
functionalism
The school of thought that Psychological
processes have a function: helping us survive as individuals, adapt as a species (William James - influenced by Darwin)
behaviorism
"scientific study of observable
behavior" without reference to mental processes
Freudian Psychology
Emphasized ways
unconscious thought
processes and emotional
responses to childhood
experiences affect later
behavior
• Founder of psychoanalysis
• was second major force until
1960s
humanistic psychology
historically significant perspective
that revived interest in study of mental processes
• Focused on ways current environments nurture or limit growth
potential and on importance of having need for love and
acceptance satisfied
• Studied people who were thriving. Helped developed theories and
treatments to help people to feel accepted and to reach their full
potential.
• Led by Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
cognitive revolution
began in the 1960s and focus
returned to interest in mental processes
psychology
science of behavior (any action
that can be observed or
recorded) and mental processes (internal, subjective experience inferred from behavior)
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