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Psychology 127
Study guide
Test # 1

I. History
A. Founding fathers of Psychology
1. Wilhelm Wundt
a. father of psychology
b. established the first school of psychology in 1879
c. structuralism = elements of the headland or consciousness
d. introspection tool used by Wundt to bankrupt the mind into its elements
2. William James
a. Functionalism voice of the mind or consciousness
b. Our doings is function of its environment and its purpose is to maintain our environment
c. Used Darwins theory of evolution in psychology
d. Brought abnormal behavior, animal behavior and religious experience to psychology
3. Sigmund Freud
a. Psychoanalysis our behavior is influenced by unconscious(p) motivations
b. We cannot at will go down into our unconscious and engender information to our conscious mind
c. information seeps our without our knowledge Slips of the tongue, dreams, drugs, hypnosis, anger
d. two instincts life & death
e. the child shapes the man- first to bring childhood experiences to psychology
4. John B. Watson
a.



behaviorism- behavior is influenced by consequences
b. consequences + reinforcers or punishers
c. relationship between Stimulus-Response (S-R)
d. wanted to delimit psychology to observable and measurable behavior
e. Felt he could originate you into anything he wants you to be

5. Max Wertheimer
a. Gestalt Psychology the whole is greater than the heart of its parts
b. Whole first than you dissect
c. Phi phenomenon- an item appears to moving but its not

B. tune Psychology was derived from two disciplines
1. Philosophy
2. Physiology
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