PSYC 1000 Study Guide - Central Nervous System, Sleep Deprivation, Frontal Lobe

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Harvey Marmurek

Document Summary

Aristotle: theories were wrong, was right to question the mind; plato"s student. Wundt: physiologist; made psychology a science by adding observations and experiments to the study; experiment of the time lapse of hearing a ball drop and being aware of hearing a ball drop. Titchener: wundt"s student; built view of mind (structuralism) by using people"s described sensations (introspection), not generalized for all. James: philosopher; developed functionalism, mental process adapts and thrives; mentored: Freud: medicine; founded psychoanalysis; helped many with mental diseases; focused on importance of. Manslow & rogers: humanistic; studied those healthy and thriving mentally; theories and treatments for helping reach full potential; growth of healthy people; love and acceptance. Watson & skinner: behaviorist; believed you cannot observe sensation, but can record behavior when responding to different situations. Behaviorism: view that psychology should be objective and without reference to mental processes. Humanism: study the thriving rather then with psychology problems.