Psychology: Unit 1: lesson 2: Psychology is a young science

William James (functionalism)

Considered the father of psychology in America, he wrote the first psychology textbook, "The principles of psychology ". He believed that a desire to survive drives behavior. (functionalism) is information is processed through a stream to create behaviors that support survival.

Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) - structuralism

German physiologist who wanted to learn more about the connection between the mind and behavior. The goal of the structuralist approach was to define the essential elements of human experience in a systematic way through introspection. Wundts efforts to study the human mind and behavior in a systematic way were credited with establishing modern psychology as a separate field of study.

Dualism

The 17th century philosophy, the view that 2 substances are mutually exclusive. it attempted to separate any link between the mind and body

neuropsychology

The study of the function and structure of the brain as it relates to behavior

Phrenology

This pseudoscience taught that each emotion, type of thought, and character trait was related to a specific part of the brain and could be detected through physical characteristics such as skull bumps

Structuralism

an approach that defines basic elements used to construct a whole

4 humors

blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile This was believed to reflect temperamental health. Each per

Inheritable Traits

how heredity influences a person's abilities, character, and behavior

one of the 4 fluids believed by ancient scholars to compose the human body

humor

Functionalism

the study of how people produce useful behaviors

pseudoscience

A field of study that is represented as scientific but in reality has no scientific basis

Introspection

A method of self-observation and reporting