Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Day 2 of notes ✓

Started with philosophers

The Big Debate: Nature vs. Nurture. 
( Innate ideas vs. environmental influences.)

Wilhelm Wunt ( 1832- 1920) 
  • Credit for establishing psychology as a science 
  • Founder of the first psych lab in 1874 in Leipzig, Germany 
  • Structuralism and trained introspective 
Titchener 
  • Structuralism <-- school of thought 
  • Analysis of sensations images and feelings into basic definitions
  • Relied on trained introspective, which is the process of analyzing stimuli 
  • *What happened? 

* Not why, What

Functionalism: Emphasized the function/ purpose of the activities
( William jones, Darwin agreed)

Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic theory- study of the unconscious mind.
  • Parts of mind containing : wishes, passions, guilt, conflicts, desires are unaware which affects behavior 
  • Past memories :psychosexual stage
  • So much more
Attic of Mind= unconsciousness 

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