PSYC 2000 Chapter : Psychology Ch 1
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Objective introspection: in structuralism, thoughts and physical sensations can be broken down into subcomponents. Pavlov: interested in reflexes (involuntary, discovered that reflexes could be conditioned (learned) by working with his dogs, food-saliva (natural response, after pairing buzzer-food, get buzzer-saliva without food even being present. What did he study: francis cecil sumner; the negative effects of segregation on children. What did she go onto become: mary whiton calkins; harvard denied it so she went to wesley; the 1st female president of the. Who was the first woman to receive her phd in psychology and later became the 2nd female president of the apa: margaret washburn. Modern perspectives and psychological methods: psychodynamic, behavioral, humanistic, cognitive, sociocultural, biopsychological perspective, evolutional perspective. Cognitive perspective (1960s: grew in part out of gestalt psychology, how people think, remember, and store information, language, problem solving, intelligence, decision making, cognitive neuroscience- brain and cognitive processing, mri machine.
