PSYC 2000 : PSYC Exam 1
Document Summary
Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Behavior includes all of our outward or overt actions and reactions, such as talking, facial expressions, and movement. The term mental processes refers to all the internal, covert activity of our minds such as thinking, feeling, and remembering. The study of structure or basic elements of mind. Wundt- germany- objective introspection (examining and measuring one"s own mental activities) The study of how the mind functions i. e. how it allows us to adapt, live, work. William james- influenced by darwin- thinking, like everything else, about humans, developed because it is adaptive. Emphasizes unconscious mind, repression, early childhood shaping adult behavior. Freud- neurologist- adler, jung, anna freud were some of his followers- basis for modern psychology. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts . Match names to the perspective it belongs to. Third force" reaction to psychoanalytic theory and behaviorism. Evolved from gestalt, computers, plaget, chomsky"s analysis of.
