MATH 1505 Study Guide - Final Guide: Noam Chomsky, Totton And Eling, Abraham Maslow
4 Oct 2014
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Blue important points: how psychology developed, psychology the scientific study of behavior and mental processes, mental processes = physiological and cognitive processes, psychology comes from two greek words. Psychology labs in america: g. stanley hall, student of wundt ii. Established first research laboratory in america at johns hopkins. Established first american psychology research journal in 1887. Father of american psychological association and first president. Founded in 1892: structuralism vs functionalism, competing schools of psychology thought. Structuralism & functionalism: structuralism, led by edward titchener, of cornell university, structuralism - the task of psychology is to analyze. Consiousness into its basic elements and investigate how. These elements are related: wanted to examine fundamental components of conscious existence like iv. sensations, feelings, and images. Introspection the careful, systematic self-observation of one"s own conscious experience. Functionalism: led by william james, formal training in medicine.
