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- established the first psychology lab
- Professor at University of Leipzig in Germany
- research on reaction times in 1879
- credited with "Birth of Psychology"
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| Edward Bradford Titchener |
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- introduced structuralism
- student of Wundt
- Professor at Cornell University
- used introspection study mind's structure |
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- early school of psychology
- used introspection to study elements of human mind |
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- school of psychology
- focus on how mental and behavioral processes function
- studies how these functions help humans to adapt, survive and flourish |
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- wrote the first textbook in psychology
- studied Darwin and adaptive behavior
- functionalist
- taught Mary Whiton Calkins |
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- pioneering memory researcher
- first woman to be president of the American Psychological Association |
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- first woman to receive a psychology Ph.D.
- synthesized animal behavior in The Animal Mind |
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- Austrian physician
- emphasized importance of unconscious mind and its effects on behavior
- influential theory of personality |
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- psychology is objective, rooted in observation
- studies behavior |
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- emphasize growth potential of healthy people
- emphasize individual's potential for personal growth
- emphasize current environmental influences on growth potential
- importance of having needs for love and acceptance satisfied |
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| - interdisciplinary study of brain activity linked with cognition (perception, thinking, memory, language, etc) |
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- Worked with Rosalie Rayner
- behaviorist
- demonstrated conditioned responses on baby "Little Albert" |
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- Worked with John B. Watson
- behaviorist
- demonstrated conditioned responses on baby "Little Albert"
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- behaviorist
- rejected introspection
- studied how consequences shape behavior
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| the science of behavior and mental processes |
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| controversy over relative contributions that genes and experience make to development of psychological traits |
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| - believed natural selection shapes behaviors and bodies |
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| - among all inherited traits, the traits that contribute to reproduction and survival are the most likely to be passed on to later generations |
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different ways of analyzing any given phenomenon
- biological
- psychological
- social-cultural |
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incorporates
-biological
-psychological
-social-cultural
levels of analysis |
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| focuses on how the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences |
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| focuses on how the natural selection of traits promoted the survival of genes |
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| Behavior genetics perspective |
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| focuses on how much our genes and our environment influence our individual differences |
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| Psychodynamic perspective |
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| focuses on how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts |
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| focuses on how we learn observable responses |
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| focuses on how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information |
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| Social-cultural perspective |
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| focuses on how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures |
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pure science that aims to increase scientific base knowledge
e.g. exploring links between brain and mind |
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scientific study that aims to solve practical problems
e.g. helping companies increase morale of employees |
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- branch of psychology
- assists people with problems in living and achieving greater well-being |
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- branch of psychology
- studies, assesses, treats people with psychological disorders |
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- branch of medicine
- deals with psychological disorders
- practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical treatments as well as psychological therapy |
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