Psychology as a natural science Questions and Correct Answers the Latest Update and Recommended Version
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Psychology as a Natural Science
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Psychology As A Natural Science
psyche (greek)
soul
logos
to study
William James
went to Europe to learn about psychology
dropped out of medical school
came back to finish medical degree but never intended to use it
became a professor in Havard uni for psuchology
wrote The principles of psychology
psychology
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Psychology as a natural science
Questions and Correct Answers the
Latest Update and Recommended
Version
psyche (greek)
✓ soul
logos
✓ to study
William James
✓ went to Europe to learn about psychology
✓ dropped out of medical school
✓ came back to finish medical degree but never intended to use it
✓ became a professor in Havard uni for psuchology
✓ wrote The principles of psychology
psychology
✓ is the study of mind and behavior
mind
✓ the private inner experience of perceptions , thoughts memories and feelings an ever
flowing steam of consciousness
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✓ focused more on how the mental abilities aloow people to adapt to their environemnt
nativism
✓ the philosophical view that certain kinds of knowledge are innate or inborn, e.g are
children born with the ability to speak or understand language
✓ Plato was one of the ones in favor of it
philosophical empirical
✓ the view that all knowledge is aquired through experience
✓ Arstotle was one in favor of it
Descartes(1596-1650)
✓ argued that the mind and body are different the body is made of material things the mind
is made immaterial things
✓ suggested that the mind influences the body through a tiny structure in the lower brain
known as pineal gland
Joseph Gall (1758-1828)
✓ thought brain and minds were connected . mental anility increases with brain size
✓ developed 'phrenology'- a now defunct teory that specific mental abilitie and charactericts
ranging from memory to the capacity of happiness , are localised in specific regions of
the brain
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Marie jean pieerre flourens(1794-1867)
✓ compared animals with parts of brain removed to those with complete brains
what was the usefulness of Hemholtsz's results
✓ He measured how long it takes impulses to travel to the brain
structuralism
✓ the analysis of the basic elements that constitute the mind
stimulus
✓ sensory input from environment
Wundt
✓ Helmholtz assistant adopted structulism
introspection
✓ the subjective observation of one's own experience
functionalism
✓ the study of the purpose mentsl processes eservein enabling people to adapt to their
environment
✓ unlike structulism that studied the structures of mental processes functionalism set to
understand the functiokkns those mental processes served.
✓ William James reasoned that mental abilities must have evolved becuase they were
adaptive
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