PSYC 2000 : Psyc Test 1
Document Summary
There is a lag between when the ball actually hits and when we actually hear it: first experiment measured time lag between individual"s hearing a ball hit a examining and measuring one"s thoughts and mental activities. What was someone"s hand and how they feel about it: brought to america by edward titchener, wundt"s student, psychology- the study of the mind; did not study behavior. Structuralism focused on the structure or basic elements of the mind. How do they help us to adapt/live: proposed by william james, influenced the modern fields of, educational psychology, evolutionary psychology. Behaviorism physical cause: the science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior only, must be directly seen and measured, proposed by john b. watson, based on the work of ivan pavlov. Psychology as a science : from the beginning to the 1920s the science of mental life, wilhelm wundt, edward titchner, william james, sigmund freud, 1920s to 1960s the scientific study of observable behavior.
