PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Major Force, Mental Disorder, Unconscious Mind

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Before 1920s: psychology was defined as science of mental life. Whut and titchener focus on observing inner sensation, image and feeling. James engaged in introspective examination of the stream of consciousness and of emotion. They all believed that: there is one thing and only one in the whole universe which we know more about than we could learn from external observation. B watson, b. f. skinner: redefine psychology as the scientific study of observable behavior. Science is rooted in observation; you can"t observe a sensation, a feeling or a thought. But you can observe and record people s behavior as they respond to different situations: freudian, develop by: sigmund freud. Focus on the way our unconscious thought about the process and our emotional responses to childhood experience affect our behavior. 1960s: humanist psychologists, lead by: carl rogers, abraham maslow, believed that both behaviorist and freudian are too limited.