PS101 Study Guide - Abraham Maslow, Positive Psychology, Psychoanalytic Theory
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Psychology"s intellectual parents were philosophy and physiology. Psychology"s founder was wilhelm wundt, who set up the first research lab in germany, in. Wundt argued that psychology should be the scientific study of consciousness. G. stanley hall launched america"s first psychology journal in 1887 and helped establish the. Advocates of structuralism argued that psychology should use introspection to analyze consciousness and its basic elements. Advocates of functionalism argued that psychology should investigate the purposes of consciousness. Functionalism had a more lasting impact on psychology, as it fostered the emergence of behaviourism and applied psychology. Although sigmund freud"s views were controversial, they gradually became influential. Psychoanalytic theory emphasizes unconscious determinants of behaviour and the importance. According to freud, the unconscious consists of thoughts that one is not aware of but that still of sexuality influence one"s behaviour. Behaviourism, founded by john b. watson, asserted that psychology should study only.
