Crash Course: Intro to Psychology #1
Operant conditioning
a learning principle that involves positive and negative reinforcement for behaviors and learning
Free association
a technique used in psychoanalysis in which patients say what comes to mind
psychology
comes from Latin word for "study of the soul"; the science of behavior and mental processes
Psychoanalysis
conflict was due to internal, unconscious motives and causes; founded by Sigmund Freud and commonly used the technique free association
B.F. Skinner
developed operant conditioning
Introspection
examination of one's own conscious thoughts and feelings which relied on observations of one's mental state; self-reflection
Wilhelm Wundt
father of modern psychology and developed structuralism
Functionalism
focused on function of behavior, proposed by Will James
Sigmund Freud
known as the father of Psychoanalysis
Structuralism
relies on introspection and is subjective; founded by Will Wundt