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Roots of Psychology

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Dualism
-body and soul
-physical and spiritual
Descartes-Dualism
-body and MIND
-physical place where body and mind come together
Materialism
-Thomas Hobbes
-studying the physicality of the body
-it is all PHYSICAL
Structuralism
-Wundt
-study the basic elements of the conscious experience
-introspection
ex. watching a sunset
Introspection
-structuralism
-art not a science
-technique for looking inside a person's mind
-studying sensations
-extremely subjective, not observable to others, hard to test
Functionalism
-James: father of psychology
-mind functions in order to aid the organism in adjusting to changes in its environment
-influenced by Darwinism
Gestalt Psychology
-Kohler
-the way you perceive objects in the world as a WHOLE
-perception
Behaviorism
-Watson
-observable behavior is the only part of psychology
-introspection is not scientific
-consciousness and mental experience cannot be studied scientifically
Psychoanalysis
-Freud
-unconscious motivations drive behavior
-diagnose and treat abnormal behavior
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