PSY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: American Psychological Association, Max Wertheimer, Wilhelm Wundt
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Psychology: studies the behavioral and mental process observable and unobservable events. Behavioral neuroscience: biological, psychological, others biological bases of behavior. Sense of perception and cognitive are experimental. Structuralism: trying to identify the basic parts of experience and how they fit together (as in building a structure) William james: 1890: emphasis on consequences of mental events or behavior functionalism. Max wertheimer: argued the mental events were more than man the sum of the parts. Consciousness is a whole, a protein, a process gestalt psychology. Sigmund freud 1900s: argued that the behavior reflects unconsciousness conflicts and motives inside people that they are not aware of psychoanalysis psychology. John warson 1920: the introspection is not a scientific method only observable behavior should be studies behavioral psychology. Carl rogers, abraham maslow 1950s: emphasized growth and potential of person, free with choice humanistic. Reliability measurement is the same w/ repeated tests overtime. Validity measurement reflects what it is intended to measure.
