PSYC 2000 Chapter : Chapter 1 Book Notes
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1. 1: the history of psychology, psychology definitions, also studies animals. Study of people and what motivates their behaviors. Focused on how the mind allows people to function in the real world, or. Francis cecil sumner - first african american to earn a phd in psychology at. 1. 2: three influential approaches, gestalt psychology: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, created by max wertheimer. Like james, objected to the structuralism point of view: he believed that psychological events like perceiving and sensing could not be broken down into any smaller elements and could still be understood. Sigmund freud: neurologist in austria - specialized in disorders of the nervous system, proposed that there is an unconscious mind into which we push, or repress, all of our threatening urges and desires. He believed that the repressed urges are what creates nervous disorders in patients. Stressed early childhood experience: personality is formed in the first 6 years of life.
