Important People Wundt Father of psychology Opened up 1st psychology research lab Studied mind by breaking down to smallest level basic components Wundt and Titchener Structuralism analysis of mind in terms of basic elements How do our hands work Introspection looking within yourself and your thoughts and feelings analyzing yourself William James Functionalism looks at functions of consciousness rather than its elements Why do we have hands Freud Belief cause of behavior is inner workings of personality Psychodynamic perspective causes of behavior depend on inner workings of our personality Emphasizes 1 roles of unconscious forces 2 unresolved conflicts from the past Psychodynamic conflict behavior shows conflict between unconscious impulses and defenses conflicting energies Psychosomatic disorder Psych means mind and soma means body Disorder where the mind or mental states influence the body Psychoanalysis states that an internal unconscious part of the mind influences behavior studied causes of behavior researched personality psychological make up psychological disorders aggression childhood experiences dreams therapeutic treatments Premises 1 people are born with strong inborn asexual and aggressive drives 2 Adult personality is largely determined by childhood experiences 3 Defense mechanisms help us cope with anxiety and trauma suppression shoving it in repression keeps info locked in unconsciousness Freud did not believe empirical value of research but focused his points with case studies Tabula Rasa born with a blank state of mind upon which experience is written Thinks that environment shapes behavior through association of events with one another Came up with Classical Conditioning learning based on associations between events ex dogs salivating when bell rings states that Thorndike s Law Of Effect Behaviors followed by satisfying consequences become more likely to recur Behaviors followed by unsatisfying consequences become less likely to recur Watson Says that the only subject matter in psychology was observable behavior little albert experiment gongs babies rat Operant Conditioning behaviors are based on good or bad consequences of actions based on thorndike s law of effect Humanist Maslow s Pyramid of Hierarchy Self Actualization Lashley Brain Mapping Lashed a mouse s brain where is memory and learning taking place Locke Pavlov Thorndike Skinner Maslow Realized that there was no adverse affects towards the mouse s ability to learn Hebb Discovered Neurotransmitters and discovered that they released chemicals to communicate and give messages Neurotransmitters chemicals that released by neurons that allow them to communicate with each other and cause action
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