PSYCH 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Major Force, Operational Definition, Normal Distribution
Document Summary
Wilhelm wundt defined psych as science of mental life . Titchener relied on self report data to build pics of how the brain worked. Mary whiton calkins first memory researcher and first female apa president. Margaret floy washburn 2nd female president of apa. Freudian psychology- response to childhood experiences and unconscious thought processes. Discredited today and now replaced by cognitive behavioural therapy (cbt) Humanistic psych- focuses on interplay of mental processes and environment. Led by carl rogers and abraham maslow. Cognitive revolution in 1960 and focus returned to interest in mental processes. Psychology is the science of behavior and mental processes. Plato: character and intelligence inherited aristotle: content of mind comes thru. Darwin: some traits, behaviors, and instincts are part of species; natural selection senses. Evolutionary psych: focus on how humans are alike bc of common bio and evolutionary history. Humans cannot rely solely on intuition and common sense. Tendency to perceive patterns in random event.
