PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Empiricism, Behaviorism
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Debate #1 wundt vs. james: wilhelm wundt & structuralism, german psychologist who established first lab at university of leipzig 1879, founder, espoused structuralism conscious experience can be broken down into its of experimental psychology as an academic discipline underlying parts or elements parts. I. e. if memory isn"t working, its because of a problem with the hippocampus: william james & functionalism, wrote principles of psychology in 1890, believed that the mind could not be broken down into its component elements (structuralism, emphasized the use of stream of consciousness as a whole, espoused functionalism, highlighted the adaptive purpose, or function, of mind and behavior. Debate #2: freud and the unconscious, emphasized the role of the unconscious in shaping human behavior, unconscious conflicts can produce psychological disorders, developed psychoanalysis as a treatment for psychological disorders, original ideas have proven very difficult to test scientifically, post hoc after the fact explanation, watson, skinner, & behaviorism, developed the approach known as behaviorism.
