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Psychology
Chapter 1: The Evolution of Psychology
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Undergraduate 1
09/17/2006

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Wilhelm Wundt
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a german professor who started the first formal laboratory for psychology called the University of Leipzig.
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Edward Titchener
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devoloped structuralism
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Structuralism
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believed that the task of psychology is to analyze consciousness into its basic elements and investigate how these elements are related
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William James
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Developed functionalism
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Functionalism
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based on the belief that psychology should investigate the function or purpose of consciousness rather than its structure
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John B. Watson
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advocate for behaviorism
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Behaviorism
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a theoretical orientation based on the premise that psychology should study only observable behavior
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Sigmund Freud
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Developed psychoanalytic theory
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Psychoanalytic Theory
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attempts to explain personality, motivation and mental disorders by focusing on unconscious determinants of behavior
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B.F. Skinner
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A Behaviorist, who believed there was no such thing as free will
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Humanists
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Carl Rogers, Abe Maslow, belief that humans had the power to "choose their destinies"
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Cognition
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the mental processes involved in aquiring knowledge
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Developmental Psychology
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looks at human development across the life-span
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Social psychology
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focuses on interpersonal behavior and the role of social forces in governing behavior.
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Experimental Psychology
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deals with perception, sensation, perception, learning, conditioning, motivation, and emotion.
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Mary Whition Calkins
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First woman to be president of the APA
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Margaret Washburn
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The first woman to receive a Ph.D. in psychology
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Leta Hollingworth
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Did empirical studies that disproved the variability hypothesis
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Ivan Pavlov
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conducted behaviors that were measurable. (dogs and saliva)
Influenced behaviorism.
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