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Summer Psychology
Psychology Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was William James? | Wrote and published "The Principles of Psychology" |
| What did Wilhelm Wundt do? | Set up 1st psychology lab in an apartment near the university at Leipzig, Germany |
| Introspection | where subjects are asked to record accurately their cognitive reactions to simple stimuli |
| stimuli | something that rouses to activity (incentive, stimulant |
| cognition | being involved in conscious intellectual activity (thinking, reasoning, or remembering) |
| Structuralism | the idea that the mind operates by combining subjective (lacking in reality) emotions and objective (material) sensations (Wilheml Wundt Theory) |
| Functionalism | the theory of how the mind functions to adapot the individual to the environment (William James theory) |
| Max Wertheimer | Gestalt psycologist that argued against dividing human thought and behavior into discrete structures. |
| Gestalt | Psychology that tried to examine a person's total experience because the way we experience the world is more than just an accumulation of various perceptual experiences |