APSY-UE 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Behaviorism, Wilhelm Wundt, Psychology Today
15 Sep 2016
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Begin w questions that they then investigate. Psyche (soul) + logos (the study of) First emerged as a discipline 140 years ago. Saw psychology as the study of conscious experience . Began in europe, developed mostly in america. Structuralism: explored the structural elements of the mind. Functionalism: focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function. Both have faded away in contemporary psychology. Attempts to explain personality, motivation, and mental disorders by focusing on unconscious determinants of behavior. Led him to believe that gaining insight to the unconscious was more important than learning about the conscious. Unconscious level causing us to act and behave a certain way. Internal conflict is what results in disorders. Based on the premise that scientific psychology should study only observable behaviors. (watson believed) if you cannot see it, how can you truly understand it. Believed that behavior is solely determined by environment (discounted genetics) Skinner: acknowledging mental drives, but we can"t study them properly.
