PSY 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wilhelm Wundt, Psy, Behaviorism
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Clients of these psychologists usually have adjustment problems, not serious psychological disorders: school psychologists are used by the school system to identify and assist students who have problems that interfere with learning. c. i. These psychologists assist with correct placements within the classroom. The stream of consciousness is fluid and continuous: functionalists looked at how our experience helps us function more adaptively in our environments. b. i. Ex: how habits help us cope with common situations b. i. 1. When eating with a spoon, we do not think we are eating each grain of rice by itself. b. ii. Adaptive behavior patterns are learned and maintained: behaviorism (john b. watson) the study of observable behavior and studies relationships between stimuli and responses, b. f. skinner contributed to behaviorism. Gestalt psychologists argued that we cannot hope to understand human nature by focusing only on overt behavior. a. ii.
