Psych 101: History of Psychology ch.1 Video

Structuralism

- one of the early schools of psychology - Titchener (Wundt's students); concern with structure of the mind (not- what does the mind do, but what is the structure?)

Aristotle and Plato

4th century psychologists plato- nativist (believed all knowledge is innate Aristotle- all knowledge is acquired through experience (philosophical empiricism)

Rene Descartes

Argued body and mind are fundamentally different things (dualism). Others challenged this idea.

Phrenology

Franz Josef Gall thought that brains and mind were linked, but by size rather than any one gland. pushed so far that it now looks absurd— imagined, in fact, with pictures of the skull with little pieces of human capacity one after another— insightfulness and intuitiveness and compassion— that each human capacity was associated with a part of the brain.

Functionalism

Functionalism refers to things people do, try to get done— functions and any functional explanation. -imagining that there's some thing that could be carried out. And you're asking questions about how and how well it gets carried out.

Helmhotlz and Wilhelm

Major contributions from two German scientists trained in the field of physiology, Hermann Von Helmholtz and Wilhelm Wundt, led to the first ever psychology department at a university.

William James

Skeptic of Structuralism -He disagreed with Wundt that consciousness could be broken down into its constituent parts -argued that consciousness was more like a flowing stream, serving to adapt people to their environments -he studied mental function— the study of the purpose mental processes serve. (Functionalism) -heavily influenced by Charles Darwin theory of natural selection

Thomas Hobbes

argued mind and body arent different things at all, mind is what the brain does - others expanded this idea.

cognitive neurositentists link brain activity and

cognitive processes

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

had his own ideas about mental illness and its origins. - behaviorism; cognitive psychology: studies of how animals learn and adapt based solely on observing their outer behavior. Behaviorism did allow psychologists to measure, predict, and control behavior to an extent: did not consider evolution

brain

one of the most complex pieces of matter

Cognitive Psychology

study of mental processes, including perception, memory, and reasoning. The shapers of this revolution in psychology were Wertheimer, Broadbent, Nicer, and Noam Chomsky.

Psychology

video: history of psychology psychology is the study of mind and behavior common pursuit of psychology is to understand the mysteries of human behavior