Unit 7 Notes Psychological Perspectives

What is the main focus of experimental psychologists?

• Teaching at colleges or universities

• Using knowledge to solve human problems

• Conducting research across the psychological spectrum

• Promoting introspection

Which fields did psychology develop from?

• Biology and Chemistry

• Philosophy and Biology/Physiology

• Sociology and Anthropology

• Economics and Political Science

Who is known for starting the first psychological laboratory and developing the concept of introspection?

• William James

• Edward Titchener

• Wilhelm Wundt

• James Functionalism

What did William James write that discussed functionalism?

• The Principles of Psychology

• The Study of Human Behavior

• The Conscious Mind

• The Structural Theory

What did Wundt's structuralism focus on?

• The purpose of behavior

• The structures that enable conscious experience

• The evolutionary basis of human behavior

• The chemical processes in the brain

What method did Edward Titchener use to promote the study of conscious experience?

• Functional analysis

• Introspection

• Behavioral observation

• Psychoanalysis

Who is known for focusing on the adaptive value of conscious thoughts and emotions and used the idea of "stream of consciousness"?

• Sigmund Freud

• G. Stanley Hall

• William James

• Max Wertheimer

What did G. Stanley Hall accomplish?

• Led the Gestalt Psychology movement

• Started the psychoanalytic school of thought

• Was the first president of the APA and established the first psychological research laboratory in the United States

• Developed the theory of behaviorism

What is the main focus of Gestalt Psychology as led by Max Wertheimer?

• The unconscious mind

• The adaptive value of emotions

• The sum of an experience being more than its parts

• The organic root of feelings and behaviors

What did Sigmund Freud believe about the origins of people's feelings?

• They are inherited behaviors

• They are based on the sum of experiences

• They come from a hidden place in the mind called the unconscious

• They are a result of the brain's organic chemistry