PSYC 2000 Chapter : Chapter 1 Part A
Document Summary
What is psychology: scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Psychology"s goals: description, why are little girls putting more emphasis on their appearance, explanation, media, prediction, less emphasis on media girls will have less emphasis on their appearance, control. History of psychology: structuralism, study structure or basic elements of mind, wundt, germany 1879 objective introspection (examining & measuring one"s own mental activities, wundt tried to apply scientific principles to study of one"s mind. To discover mind"s structure try to objectively measure one"s own thoughts through self reflective introspection. Thinking, like everything else about humans, developed because it is adaptive: scientific study of consciousness not possible. Ideas are always flowing in a stream, we can"t objectively measure them. Cognitive psychology, sensation and perception, learning, memory, problem solving: wertheimer. Early psychology perspectives: structuralism, functionalism, psychoanalysis, behaviorism, gestalt psychology, what was the main idea and the main people.
