APSY-UE 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Behaviorism, Heredity, B. F. Skinner

• School: New York University
• Department: Applied Psychology
• Course: APSY-UE 2
• Professor: Adina Schick

Document Summary

> investigate questions about human behavior in scientific ways. > combination of two greek words: psyche and logos (soul and the study of the soul) > psychology was the study of the soul till the 18th century when it became the study of the mind. > scientific study of conscious experience - study things that can be observed and seen. > structuralism: analyze consciousness in basic elements and how those elements are related to one another. > functionalism: how mental and behavioral processes function rather than the structure - William james: first person to talk about stream of consciousness. > interested in how people adapt their behavior to demands of what is around them. > functionalists studied child development, behavioral differences across gender, etc. > attempts to explain personality, motivation, and mental disorders by focusing on unconscious determinants of behavior. > mental disorders caused by problems existing at an unconscious level.