PSYCHOLOGY Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Industrial And Organizational Psychology, Wilhelm Wundt, Max Wertheimer
23 Nov 2022
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Psychology - behavior and mental processes: behavior - outward or over actions and reactions, mental processes - the internal, covert activity of our minds, greek word = psyche - soul and logos - the study of. Psychology is science: prevent possible biases from leading to faulty observations, precise and careful measurement. Four goals of psychology: description - what, explanation - why, theory, prediction - will it, control - how can it be changed. Structuralism: you are conscious by the help of your perception or senses, focus on the structure or basic elements of the mind, structuralism died in the 1900s. Wilhelm wundt (1832-1920: established the first psychology laboratory in germany, defined psychology as the science of human mind and consciousness, leipzig, germany in 1979, developed the technique of objective, educational psychology, evolutionary, industrial / organizational psychology. Gestalt psychologists illustrated how we tend to perceive separate pieces of info as integrated whole.
