PSYC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Wilhelm Wundt, Heredity, Behaviorism
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Philosophy and physiology are psychology"s intellectual parents. Psychology"s founder was wilhelm wundt, who set up the first research lab in. Wundt argued that psychology should be the scientific study of consciousness. Functionalism , such as william james, argued that psychology. Functionalism had a more lasting impact on psychology because it fostered the analyze consciousness into its basic elements. should investigate the purposes (or functions) of consciousness. emergence of behaviorism and applied psychology. Psychoanalytic theory emphasizes unconscious determinants of behavior and. Unconscious consists of thoughts that one is not aware of the importance of sexuality. but that still influence one"s behavior. Behaviorists stressed the importance of environment over heredity, and pioneered observable behavior. (instead of consciousness). animal research. Skinner generated controversy by arguing that free will is an illusion. the 1950s. behavior, and the importance of the environment. Finding both behaviorism and psychoanalysis unappealing, advocates of . Humanists emphasize the unique qualities of human behavior and the irrelevance of.
