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AP Psych Unit One
2023- 2024, History and Approaches to Psychology
Term | Definition |
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What is Psychology? | the scientific study of behaviors and mental processes, behaviors, must always be measurable and obserable |
Wilhem Wundt | created first pysch lab |
Structuralism | interested in the sturture of the mind encouraged introspection |
Introspection | looking inward, downfalls- subjective and unreliable |
Functionalism | willam james, function of things |
Mary Calkins | first female pres of APA |
Margert Floy Washburn | first PHD given to a women |
Gestalt Psychology | the whole greater than the sum of its parts, sensory and perception |
Nature v. Nuture | Heredity v. Upbringing |
Frances Bacon | founder of modern science, interested in human mind failings, how people perceive problems in randomizes |
John Locke | a blank slate |
Empiricism | knowledge originates in experience, science should rely on observation and experimentation |
John B. Watson | behaviorist |
Decartes | disagreed with Lockes ideas of blank slate |