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| the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. |
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| anything an organism does; any action we can observe and record. |
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| internal, subjective experiences we infer from behavior. |
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| From India, pondered how sensations and perceptions form ideas. |
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| From China, stressed the power of ideas and an educated mind. |
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| Greece philosopher/teacher. Thought that the mind is separate from the body. After death the mind continues. Believed knowledge is born in us (innate). |
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| Sorcates' student. Believed knowledge is born in us (innate). |
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| Plato's student. Believed knowledge is not preexisting, it grows from experience and stored memory. |
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| Scientist and Philosopher. Also thought mind was separate from body. Studied/contemplated how the body and mind communicate. |
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| "Founder of Modern Science". Came up with the scientific method: hypothesis, operational explanation, experiment, conclusion. |
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| thought mind was a "tabula rasa" (blank slate) and that experience "writes" on it. |
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| a view that knowledge originates in experience. Science should, therefore, rely on observation & experience. |
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| Worked at Germany's University of Leipzig. Wanted to measure the "atoms of the mind" which he believed were the fastest mental processes. He preformed the first psychological experiment. Measured the time between sensing, being aware, and reacting. |
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| Edward Bradford Titchener |
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| Introduced Structuralism to Cornell University. |
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| early school of psychology; used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind. |
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| looking inward...the examination of one's own mental and emotional processes. |
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| thought it was better to examine functions of the mind, functionalism. |
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| The examination of functions of the mind. |
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| Earned a PhD, but Harvard denied her degree. Became the first female president of the APA. |
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