PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gestalt Psychology, Humanistic Psychology, Cognitive Psychology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4130
• Professor: Shirley Griffith

Document Summary

Titchener"s system of psychology, which dealt with the conscious experience as dependent on experiencing persons: functionalism. A system of psychology concerned with the mind as it is used in an organism"s adaptation to its environment: behaviourism. John b. watson"s science of behaviour, which dealt solely with observable behavioural acts that could be described in objective terms: gestalt psychology. A system of psychology that focuses largely on learning and perception, suggesting that combining sensory elements produces patterns with properties that did not exist in individual elements: psychoanalysis. Freud"s theory of personality and system of psychotherapy: humanistic psychology. A system of psychology that emphasizes the study of conscious experience and the wholeness of human nature: cognitive psychology. A system of psychology that focuses on the process of knowing, on how the mind actively organizes experiences. (chapter 4-5-6) Zeitgeist of the 17th to the 19th centuries influences psychology. Physics and mechanics: mechanical clock (construction of a machine) clock influence psychology.