PSYC 1103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Jean Piaget, Clinical Psychology, Extraversion And Introversion
30 Jan 2017
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Empirical method: based on observation, including experimentation, rather than a method based only on forms of logical arguments. Use trained observers and repeatable stimuli: structuralism: attempts to understand the structure or characteristics of the mind. Interested in the operation of the whole mind rather than its individual parts. Freud and psychoanalysis: austrian neurologist fascinated with hysteria, unconscious mind was a repository of feelings and urges we have no awareness of, psychoanalytic theory: focuses on the role of a person"s unconscious, as well as early childhood experiences. Gestalt psychology: wertheimer, koffka, kohler, although a sensory experience can be broken down into individual parts, how those parts relate to each other as a whole is what the individual responds to. Behaviorism: pavlov, watson, skinner, pavlov: conditioned reflexes, salivation of dogs, watson: focused on behaviorism, behaviorism: shifting form of psychology from mind to behavior. Learned behavior and its interaction with inborn qualities of the organism: skinner: developed operant conditioning chamber.
