PSYC 2000 Chapter : Psychologychapter1
Document Summary
How did psychology begin: wilhelm wundt, created 1st psychological laboratory, germany in 1879. To know what people were thinking had to ask, couldn"t read minds. Structuralism focused on the structure or basic elements of the mind looking inward: brought to america by edward titchener, wundt"s student, died out in early 1900s. Functionalism examining the functions of our thoughts and feelings: proposed by william james. Influenced the modern fields of: educational psychology, evolutionary psychology. Psychoanalysis the theory and therapy based on the work of sigmund freud. Freud"s patients suffered from nervous disorders with no apparent physical cause. Freud proposed the existence of an unconscious (unaware) mind into which we push or repress all of our threatening urges and desires: repression caused nervous disorders. Freud"s theory no longer used today: behaviorism 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.
