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Psychology Quiz 1
Term | Definition |
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Behaviorism | Focused on overt behavior; observable measures that can be objectively measured and verified; rejected emphasis on consciousness by structuralism and functionalism; Freudan notion on unconscious influence rejected. *Pavlov, Watson, Skinner |
Humanistic Psychology | Emphasized the study of human behavior; whole person. *Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow |
Psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud; focused on the role of unconscious conflicts that determine behavior and personality. |
Structuralism | Emphasized the elemental structures of our consciousness; sensations, feelings; introspection. |
Sigmund Freud | Psychoanalysis; Austria; Psychoanalysis emphasizes the role of unconscious conflicts in determining behavior and personality. |
Functionalism | Functionalism stressed the importance of how behavior functions to allow people to adapt to their environments. *William James |
William James | Functionalism; his ideas became the basis for it; Harvard; Functionalism was one of the first two schools of psychology. |
Wilhelm Wundt | Established psychology as a distinct scientific discipline; German; In 1879, established the first psychology research laboratory. |
Psychology | The scientific study of behavior and mental processes. |
G. Stanley Hall | Helped organize psychology in the U.S.; establishment of the first psychology research lab in the United States; Founded the APA* |