PSY 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Wilhelm Wundt, Psy, The Roots
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Provide a generalization to each of the key terms listed in this section. He focused on uncovering the fundamental and mental components of consciousness, thinking, and other kinds of mental states and ac- tivities. Introspection: to determine how the basic sensory processes our understanding of the world, wundt, and other structuralists used this procedure. 1: helps trained subjects attempted to describe stimuli and their own mental businesses. 0. 3 functionalism: this is the general perspective that replaced structuralism, this concentrates on what the mind does and how behavior functions, this developed in the us partially in response to the problems of struc- turalism. Get in uenced by the evolutionary ideas of charles darwin. Concerned with the purposes of behavior and the adaptation or adjustment of people to the di erent environments. Might examine the function of the emotion of fear when it comes to preparing us to deal with emergency situations.
