PSY 100 Midterm: Exam 1 Study Guide at UKY
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Psychology is the scientific study of the behavior and mental process (definition) The first person to establish the first psychological laboratory was william wundt ; he established it as a experimental field. William wundt: opened the first lab in germany 1879; studied the concept of consciousness. Edward titchener: brought ideas to us of mythology and discipline terms of structuralism. William james: disagreed with wundt; developed functionalism. Sigmund freud: developed the theory of personality; psychodynamic perspective. Introspection: looking inward to reconstruct feelings and sensations. Structuralism: studying most basic elements of consciousness using introspection. Functionalism: stressed importance of how functions allow people and animals to adapt to environment. Applied studies: methodology used to solve a specific, practical problem of an individual or group. Basic research: goal to improve scientific theories for improves understanding of natural phenomena. Goals of science: description, prediction, understanding, control. Steps to the scientific method: observation, question, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion.
