Psychology History

Introspection is

• Examining one’s own 

      thoughts & feelings

• great significance or value

• significantly original and influential

• holding or catching the attention

Psychology is born in

• 1870

• 1897

• 1879

• 1867

Who wrote the 1st modern book of Psychology

• Francis Bacon

• Socrates & Plato

• Wilhelm Wundt

• William James

Name this Approach: behavior & mental processes are largely shaped by the nervous system: brain, hormones, genes.

• Evolutionary

• Psychodynamic

• Behavioral

• Biological

Name this Approach: Focuses on how culture influences the way we think & act.

• Evolutionary

• Psychodynamic

• Social-Cultural

• Biological

Name the Subfield: experiments how we perceive, think &

solve probs

• Cognitive Psychologists

• Developmental Psychologists

• Biological Psychologists

• Personality Psychologists

Name the Subfield: treat mental, emotional & behavioral

disorders

• Cognitive Psychologists

• Clinical Psychologists

• Social Psychologists

• Industrial   Psychologists