PSYC 100A Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Standard Deviation, Informed Consent, Mary Whiton Calkins

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100A
• Professor: Louise Chim

Document Summary

Wihelm wundt: seeked to measure atoms of the mind: structuralism: promoted by wundt and titchener, used introspective to reveal structure of the human mind, functionalism: created by james, influced by darwin. Explore how mental processes function, adapt, survive, and thrive. Mary whiton calkins: was mentored by william james and became a pioneering memory researcher. Margret washburn: the first women to receive a phd in psychology. She also wrote the animal mind : behaviorism: the science of metal life. Studies behavior as an objective science without reference to mental processes. John watson and rosalin rayner: humanistic psychology: a historically significant perspective that emphisized human growth potential (party freudian inspired) Carl rodgers and abraham maslow: fruedian psychology: how unconscious thought processes and our emotional responses to childhood experiences effect our behavior. Nature-nurture issue: do genes or experience make up our psychological traits. Natural selection: amoung various chances nature choses the physical and psychological traits that are best fit for their environment.