PS101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Walter Bradford Cannon, Positron Emission Tomography, Psps Pekanbaru
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Psychologists seek to describe explain and predict the occurrence of such behaviour. German wilhelm wundt: campaigned to make psycho its own discipline, use to subcategory in philosophy or physiology. 1879 wilhelm established first lab of psycho at uni of leipzig: considered the founder of psych. New lab started by g. stanley hall: wilhelm"s students, important in growth in american psych, established john hopkins uni in 1883, essential to the american psychological assoication, first president. Many believe functionalism won out between structuralism: fostered 2 new subcategories, behaviourism, applied psych. Behaviourism behaviour: theoretical orientation based on premise that scientific psych should be observable by, john watson, behaviour-any overt response or activity by an organism, believed in nurture. Psychoanalytic: freud, explain personality, motivation, and mental disorders, believed behaviour is greatly influenced by how people deal with their sexual urges, attempts to explain personality by focusing on unconscious determinants.