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| Intellectual Parents of psychology |
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| Philosophy and Physiology |
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| Who is founder of Psychology? |
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| What year and where did Wundt set up first psychology lab? |
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| Wundt's primary approach to psychology? |
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| Structuralism addresses what questions? |
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| Analyze conciousness into basic elements. Find fundamental components of of conscious. |
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| James created Functionalism. |
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| The belief we should find the function/purpose of consciousness, and studying how we adapt behavior to demands. Founded by William James, furthered by Charles Darwin. |
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| What are three traditions that have characterized psychology's developement? |
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| Psych is empirical, theoretically diverse, and evolves in a sociohistorical context. |
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| Who is the founder of behaviorism? |
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| John B. Watson, because he wanted verifiability. |
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| Behaviorist. Internal events could not be studied scientifically. Free will is an illusion. Repeat action if positive response. Don't repeat if negative. |
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| Cognitive psychology replaced behaviorism because? |
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| Cognitive theorists study internal events to understand external events. |
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| A psychologist who focused on children s cognitive development. |
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| What is the biological approach to psychology? |
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| That animal/human behavior can be explained by body structure and internal chemical process. |
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| Sigmund Freud's approach to psychology is? |
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| Psychoanalysis. Says internal method of thought is unconscious, and we are governed by it. |
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| Rogers was a humanist that said behavior is governed by self-concept. |
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| Testing terms: Falsifiability, and Parsimony, mean. |
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| Falsifiability means something can be disproved. Parsimony is the simplest answer. |
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| Looking for evidence to confirm beliefs. |
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