Psych Module 1
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- psychology
- The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
- Wilhelm Wundt
- Founder of modern psychology.
- structuralism
- Theory that analyzed the basic elements of thoughts and sensations to determine the structure of conscious experience.
- E.B. Titchener
- Founder of structuralism.
- Gestalt psychology
- Psychological perspective that emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes.
- William James
- First American psychologist and author of the first psychology textbook.
- functionalism
- Theory that emphasized the functions of consciousness and the ways consciousness helps people adapt to their environment.
- Sigmund Freud
- Founder of psychoanalysis.
- psychoanalytic perspective
- School of thought that focuses on how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts; contemporary version is called psychodynamic perspective.
- Ivan Pavlov
- Russian psychologist who showed that animals learn some things through association.
- John B. Watson
- Founder of behaviorism.
- behaviorist perspective
- School of thought that focuses on how we learn observable responses.
- B.F. Skinner
- American psychologist whose brand of behaviorism focused on the role of responses in learning.
- humanistic psychology
- School of thought that focuses on the study of conscious experience, the individual's freedom to choose, and capacity for personal growth.
- Abraham Maslow
- Leader in the humanistic psychology movement.
- Carl Rogers
- Leader in the humanistic movement.
- Jean Piaget
- Developmental and cognitive psychologist known for his studies of children's thought processes.
- G. Stanley Hall
- First American man to earn a Ph.D. in psychology; opened first psychology lab in the United States; founded, and was the first president of, the American Psychological Association (APA).