PSYC 2000 Chapter : PSYCHOLOGY Notes
Document Summary
Focused on conscious experience and its building blocks. Trained many early psychologists: brief history of psychology. Who titchener where 1880s introspection (conscious psychological reaction). Structuralism is essentially breaking down something to understand it like the word pear signifies the fruit. William james (first american psychologist) started functionalism 1880. His method was armchair psychology mental associations allow us to benefit from previous experience. The goal is to create a systematic way of understanding and interpreting human experience. Founder of psychoanalysis or psychodynamics early 1900s. understanding the effect of early development on later development. I played violent games so i will go be violent. Noam chomsky (1950 s and on) and ulric neisser (1960s -1970s) Brain is complex and can do anything and the environment has no effect on the whole process. Similar to language, watching people speak they are capable of learning to speak themselves.
