PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mary Whiton Calkins, Margaret Floy Washburn, Edward B. Titchener

• School: University of Maine
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 100
• Professor: Michael Robins

Document Summary

*psychology: the scientific study of behavior (outward or overt actions and reactions) and mental (internal, covert activity of our minds) processes. *structuralism: focused on the structure or basic elements of the mind. Developed the technique of objective introspection: the process of objectively examining and measuring one"s thoughts and mental activities. Edward titchener, wundt"s student; brought structuralism to america. Margaret washburn, titchener"s student; first woman to earn a p h. d in psychology. Structuralism died out in the early nineteen hundreds. *functionalism: how the mind allows people to adapt, live, work, and play. Proposed by william james: influenced the modern fields of: Mary whiton calkins: she was denied p h d because she was a woman. Americans: gestalt: good figure psychology, started with wertheimer, who studied sensation and perception, gestalt ideas are now part of the study of cognitive psychology. *cognitive psychology: a field focusing not only on perception but also on learning, memory, thought processes, and problem solving.