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