PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Mary Whiton Calkins, Leta Stetter Hollingworth, Margaret Floy Washburn

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Jill Bee Rich

Document Summary

What do clinical psychologists do: assessment, treatment, teaching, research. Psychologist vs. psychiatrist: both diagnose and treat psychological problems, often work together, education, psychologist: ph. d, psychiatrist: m. d, training in research methods, psychologist: more training in research (actually conduct their own, psychiatrist: research not required, prescription privileges: only psychiatrists. To understand and explain the causes of behaviour (why) The battle of schools: begins: structuralism vs. functionalism. Leta hollingworth: worked on children"s intelligence, influential on debunking theories on why women were inferior to men, mary whiton calkins, first female president of apa. Watson alters psychology"s course as behaviourism makes its debut early 1900"s behaviourism: theoretical orientation: scientific psychology should only study observ- able behaviour. 1920: psychoanalytic theory was widely known around the world: grew to become very influential and still used today. In canada, clinical psychologists are licensed and governed by colleges and boards of examiners. Renewed interest in cognition and physiology: cognition: mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge.