PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Little Albert Experiment, Max Wertheimer, Wilhelm Wundt
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Structuralism: wanting to look at a situation in the most basic of terms. Objective introspection: attempting to break down sensations and feelings into simplest components. Functionalism: how the mind allows people to adapt/live/work/play. Gestalt ideas now part of the study of cognitive psychology. The whole is much greater than the sum. Psychoanalysis: who you are now is a result of your past experiences, emphasis on early childhood. Proposed the existence of unconsciousness and the unconscious mind. Needs to be directly seen and measured. Salivation in the dog due to seeing food is an unconditioned response - the dog did not need to learn how to salivate for food. Conditioned dogs would salivate when hearing bell because it expects food. Psychodynamic perspective is the modern version of psychoanalysis. Irrational behaviors can be blamed on trauma. If you do something that makes you feel good, you will do it again; if not, you won"t.
