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-Father of psychology
-Primary focus = consciousness
-Psychology = scientific study of conscious experience |
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| Analyze consciousness into its basic elements and investigate how these elements are related |
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| Psychology should investigate the function or purpose of consciousness, rather than its structure |
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| Heritable characteristics that provide a survival or reproductive advantage are more likely than alternative characterstics to be passed on to subsequent generations and thus come to be 'selected' over time |
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| First woman to serve as president of the APA in 1905 |
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| First woman to get PhD in psychology; second woman to serve as president of APA |
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| Leta Stetter Hollingworth |
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| First person to use the word 'gifted;' did research showing women weren't inferior to men/gender differences |
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| Contains thoughts, memories, and desires that are well below the surface of the conscious awareness but that nonetheless exert great influence on behavior |
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-Freud!
-Attmepts to explain personality, motivation, and mental disorders by focusing on unconscious determinants of behavior |
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-Founded by Watson
-Theoretical orientation based on the presmise that scientific psychology should study only observed behavior |
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-Theoretical orientation that emphasizes the unique qualitites of humans, especially their freedom and their potential for personal growth
-Rogers & Maslow |
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| Concerned with everyday practical problems |
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| Concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and disorders |
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| Mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge |
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| Examines behavioral processes in terms of their adaptive value for members of a species ofver the course of many generations |
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| Uses theory and research to better understand the positive, adaptive, and fulfilling aspects of human existence |
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| Science that studies behavior and the physiological and cognitive processes that underlie it, and it's the profession that applies the accumulated knowledge of this science to practical problems |
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| System of interrelated ideas used to explain a set of observations |
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| Refers to widely shared customs, bleiefs, values, norms, institutions, and other products of a community that are transmitted socially across generations |
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