PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Aaron T. Beck, Wilhelm Wundt, Jean Piaget
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Views humans as information processors and problem solvers whose actions are governed by thought and planning. What sets humans apart is that we have mental capabilities. Several schools and individuals contributed to modern cognitive perspective: Studies how mental processes influence our motives, emotions, and behaviour. Analysis of mind in terms of its basic elements. Studied sensations through introspection ( looking within ) patients were exposed to stimuli and asked to explain their experiences. Wilhelm wundt wanted to model study of the mind after physical and. Believed mind could be studied via breaking it down to its basic parts, this was called structuralism. Founded first laboratory of experimental psychology in 1879. Psychology should study the functions of consciousness (the why"s) rather than its structure- (the what"s) Influenced partly by darwin"s evolutionary theory (adaption to succeed) William james broad functionalist approach helped widen the scope of psychology to include biological/mental processes and behaviour.
