PSYC 2000 : Test 1
Document Summary
8/28/14: definition of psychology: the scientific study of behavior and mental processes, behavior any action, mental processes perceptions, thoughts, feelings, latent constructs. Goals of psychology: describe, explain, predict, control. Wilheim wundt: father of psychology , two reasons, first attempt to bring objectivity/measurement in psychology, founded the 1st experimental psychology laboratory, some work involved objective introspection. Edward titchener: student of wundt, translated many of wundt"s works into english, structuralism, study consciousness by trying to understand its smallest, most basic elements. Introspection of thoughts as well as physical objects. William james: as the brain-changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Max wertheimer: gestalt psychology: how we experience the world, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. John watson: behaviorism: study of observable behavior, https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=0a_ttik6mbm&index=5&list=plmydvkuqfsrkq oweg40ynrn4vaz-lktcl. Interested in reflexes: discovered that reflexes could be conditioned (learned, food-saliva (natural response, after pairing buzzer-food, get buzzer-saliva.
