PSY 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sigmund Freud, Tabla, Wilhelm Wundt
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1st psychologist experiment in germany used introspection to study atoms of the mind consider the birth of psychology. 1st american school of psychology study of mind in adapting to its environment. Psycho analysis: focused on abnormal behavior emphasized on the unconscious dream state/sex just so theory; you can make anything fit if you try hard enough. Behaviorism: watson and skinner study only way can be observed and measured focused on behaviors not thoughts/mind. Psychology: the science of behavior & mental processes. Mental process: what we can infer from behavior. Apa: the largest organization of psychology with 160,000 members world-wide. Nurture works on what nature endows: how your raised, environment that your in impacts you. Plato: inborn ideas, we are who we are from when we were born. Locke: we come into the world open to everything and it changes us (blank slate = tabla rasa)
