Psychology chapter 1
Dominance of behaviorism
Discouraged the study of mental processes in psychology
Dehumanizing
One of the main criticisms raised concerning both behaviorism and psychoanalytic theory
Wilhelm Wundt
Person linked with the notion that psychology should be the study of conscious experience.
Behaviorism
Behavior explained by terms of conditioning. Ex: a mother teaching her son to buckle his seatbelt by only allowing him to play his tapes when he was buckled
Psychometrics
Interest in the development of psychological tests to measure intelligence or personality traits
"Psychology evolves in a socio-historical context"
Psychology and society both influence each other
Educational psychology
Specializes in the development of curricula and training of teacher
Functionalists
The ___ believed that consciousness developed in humans because it served a useful purpose.
False
True/false: a strict behavioralist would view nature as more important than nurture in determining an individual's observable responses to a given stimulus
True
True/false: according to Wilhelm Wundt, psychology's primary focus should be the scientific study of mental processes.
False
True/false: functionalists relied heavily on the method of introspection to understand the nature and function of conscious processes.
Behavior
Watson defined psychology as the scientific study of ___.
Cognitive perspective and biological perspective
Which pair or terms reflects the observation that 'psychology returns to its roots' in the latter part of the 20th century?
