PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Psychopathy, Cognitive Revolution, Cognitive Psychology
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Structuralism to functionalism -> e. g. wilheml wundtwhen psych started it was about seeing the internal world of our bodies as a reflection of the external world (contents of your mind)to. Darwin -> people stopped being concerned about the experience itself and focused on the process behind that experience. Herman von ebbinghaus -> memory and forgetting (we can study it scientifically) Sigmund freud -> victorian era in formal times, which caused his research to be provocative especially because he had claims behind his work. Redefined psychology -> gave birth to the clinical part of psych. Any experiment you design, the freudian theory can provide a result (this is why scientists find him useless) Clinical psych is becoming more and more scientific. In europe gestalt and humanistic psych was going on in response to. Gestalt psychology -> "the whole is more than the sum of its parts" Humanistic psychology -> born largely as a direct counter response to.
