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1 Bell Ringer What are the four goals of psychology (try not to look at your notes)? What is psychology? How are intelligence and affluence related?

2 Sec. 2: A Brief History of Psychology

3 Historical Approaches
Structualism Functionalism Inheritable Traits

4 Structuralism Wilhelm Wundt Wanted to know how the mind worked
Trained participants reported their thoughts and Wundt would try to map out the thoughts. This is called “Introspection”

5 Functionalism William James (father of psychology in U.S.)
Taught first class in psychology – Harvard Univ. Thinking, feeling, learning, and remembering serve one purpose – to help us survive as a species. Functionalists study how animals and people adapt to their environments.

6 Inheritable Traits Sir Francis Galton
How does heredity influence a person (ability, behavior, character)? Found greatness runs in families He raised the issue, is behavior determined by heredity or environment?

7 Contemporary Approaches
Psychoanalytic Behavioral Humanistic Cognitive sociocultural

8 Psychoanalytic Sigmund Freud
Believed that our subconscious played a large role in our behavior. Free Association – he would say a word and his patient would say what first came to their mind.

9 Behavioral Ivan Pavlov, John Watson, B.F. Skinner
Believed behavior could be influenced conditioning and/or reinforcements.

10 Humanistic Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers
Do not believe people are controlled by events (conditions) or unconscious forces. Each person is unique and has a self concept and a potential to develop fully.

11 Cognitive Jean Piaget, Norm Chomsky
How we process, store, retrieve, and use information. Behavior is influenced by perceptions, memories, and expectations.

12 Sociocultural Focuses on the influence of cultural and ethnic similarities and differences on behavior and social functioning.

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