Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Origins of Psychology
- Origin of
Psychology
- Wundt
- Consciousness
- Awareness of immediate experience
- William James
- Functionalism
- Function & purpose of consciousness
- "Stream of consciousness"
- Titchner
- Structuralism
- Separate consciousness into parts
- "Static points"
- John B. Watson
- Behavioralism
- Observable responses/activities
- Study what can be directly
observed
- Scientific method based on this
verification
- B.F. Skinner
- Enviromental Factors influence behaviour
- "No such thing as free will"
- Responses are a result of previous
conditioning
- Locus of behaviour is in the brain
- Nurture > Nature
- Genetic inheritances or
environment & experience
- Influences behaviour
- Nuture
- Stimulus is a
detectable input
from the
environment
- Stimulus Response Technology
- "Change the environment and you
can change the person" - B.F.
Skinner
- Nature
- Biological make up of a person
- Inheritable characteristics
through generations
- Sigmund Freud
- Unconscious mind
- Below the surface of
conscious awareness
- Influence on actions and behaviours
- Unconscious conflict
plays a role in behavior
- Affected by sexuality
- Psychoanalytical Theory
- Attempts to explain personality and
conditions of the subconscious by
focusing on unconscious determinants
of behaviour
- People are not the masters of their own mind
- Humanism
- Emphasizes the unique qualities of humans
- Freedom, potential for personal growth
- Opposed psychoanalytical theory
- Donald Hebb
- Cognition
- Mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge
- Locus of behaviour is in the brain
- Repeated stimulation leads to
development of cell assemblies that
facilitate behaviour
- Applied Psychology
- Concerned with
everyday life and
practical problems
- Clinical Psychology
- Diagnosis and treatment of
psychological problems and
disorders