Informative Essay on History of Psychology – Flashcards
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Descartes' concept that the mind and the body are two separate entities but they casually interact with each other to produce conscious experience
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Interactive dualism
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which functions belong to the immortal soul and which functions belong to the body? - definition
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Theological psychology
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the root of human suffering is our constant wanting and craving
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Buddha
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people must be understood as best as possible, treated accordingly, and if suitable, given the right positions in government for the society to benefit
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Confucius
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mind is separate from the body, mind continues to exist after death, ideas are innate
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plato, socrates
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the mind is not separate from the body, knowledge grows from experience (opposing "ideas are innate" and "mind is separate from the body")
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Aristotle
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which functions belong to the immortal soul and which to the biological body?
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Augustine de hippo, thomas aquinas
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Interactive Dualism - the mind and the body are separate entities that casually interact to produce conscious experience
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Descartes
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the mind is a tabula rasa; knowledge is determined only by experience derived from sense perception
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John Locke
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there are three irreducible faculties of mind: knowledge, feeling, desire - Critique of Judgement
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Immanuel Kant
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Distinction between Rational and Empirical Psychology
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Christian Wolff
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functionalists, investigated mental testing, patterns of development in children, the effectiveness of educational practices, behavioural differences between the sexes
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McKeen Cattell, Dewey
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founder of structuralism
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Edward titchener
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founder of functionalism
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william james
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psychology should be modeled after fields such as chemistry and physics, primary focus is consciousness.
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Wundt
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america's first research laboratory, first psychology journal, driving force behind apa
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Hall
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once trained, the subjects were exposed to auditory tones, optical illusions, and visual stimuli under carefully controlled and systematically varied conditions and were asked to analyze what they experienced
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Structuralism
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were interested in how people adapt their behaviour to the demands of the world around them
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Functionalists
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disciplines functionalism gave rise to
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Behaviourism, applied psychology
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came to view psychology's mission as an attempt to relate overt behaviours to observable events in the environment
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Behaviourists
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known for his mathematics of the eye, theories of vision, ideas on the visual perception of space, color vision research, and on the sensation of tone, perception of sound, and empiricism
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Hermann von helmholtz
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because the mind is susceptible to measurement and mathematical treatment, psychology has the potential to become a quantified science
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Gustav fechner
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developed positive psychology
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Seligman
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uses theory and research to better understand the positive, adaptive, creative, and fulfilling aspects of human existence
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Positive psychology
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according to him, only behaviours can be quantifiable and thus can be studied scientifically. He argued that psychology can understand and predict behaviour adequately without resorting to physiological explanations, "organisms tend to repeat responses that lead to positive outcomes, and they tend not to repeat responses that lead to neutral or negative outcomes"; trained animals to perform unnatural behaviours
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Skinner
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founded behaviourism, proposed that psychologists abandon the study of consciousness altogether, believed that behavior was the result of enrivonmental factors.
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Watson
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Showed that dogs can be made to salivate in response to an auditory stimulus such as tone
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Pavlov
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worked with patients and undergone self-exploration; according to him, the unconscious contains thoughts, memories, and desires that are well below the surface of conscious awareness byt that nonetheless exert great influence on behaviour. Stirred up controversy because it placed an emphasis on sex and at that time, people were more sexually repressed than they are now.
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Freud
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human behaviour is primarily governed by the individual's sense of self, which animals presumably lack.
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Rogers
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along with Rogers, maintained that to fully understand human behaviour, psychologists must take into account the fundamental human drive toward personal growth
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Maslow
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study of children's cognitive development
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Piaget
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Elicited new interest in the psychological underpinnings of language
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Chomsky
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Groundbreaking research on problem solving
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Simon
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electrical stimulation of the brain could evoke emotional responses such as pleasure and rage in animals
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Olds
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showed that the right and left halves of the brain are specialized to handle different types of mental tasks
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Sperry
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Nobel prize-winning work on how visual signals are processed in the brain
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Hubel, Wiesel
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Studies on a range of topics including mating preferences, jealousy, aggression, sexual behaviour, language, decision making, personality, development
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Buss, Daly, Wilson, Cosmides, Tooby
