PSYC 1315 1st Edition Lecture 2 Outline of Last Lecture I What is Psychology A Goals and Tools II Philosophers and Theologians A Ancient Philosophers B Temperament III Transactional vs Transformational IV Research Areas of Psychology Outline of Current Lecture I Wilhelm Wundt A Structuralism II William James A Functionalism III Sigmund Freud A Psychodynamic Approach Current Lecture l A Wilhelm Wundt was a German philosophy professor who established the first lab for the study of psychology in 1879 He wanted to use chemistry as a model to study the mind To study the mental processes of the mind he used structuralism the method of study being introspection Introspection means looking inside one s own mind by focusing on your thoughts This method failed because it didn t provide any way to verify a subjects reports and because the subjects were inconsistent from test to test ll A William James was an American philosophy professor whose approach was functionalism Functionalism was the approach to mental processes emphasizing the functions and purposes of the mind and behavior in one s adaptation to the environment He focused on the usefulness of various psychological phenomena He These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute started what became studying behavior and believed that behavior thoughts and feelings served adaptive purposes lll A Sigmund Freud was a neuropsychiatric who proposed a comprehensive theory to explain behavior thoughts and feelings He founded the psychodynamic approach which emphasized unconscious motivations like the influence of unconscious aggressive and sexual motives and early childhood experiences He believed people did things for either power or sex and believed in the different stages of childhood Like the anal stage was from 1 3 when you began potty training If it was harder for someone to be potty trained they became anal detail oriented when adults The oral stage was from 0 1 and if the infant was not fed or nurtured as a baby then they would become dependent of others in the future
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