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| 7415311263 | Four goals of Psych | Description explanation prediction and control | 0 | |
| 7415311264 | Gustav Fechner | Physician and physiscist. Performed some of first scientific experiments that would form a basis for experimentation in psych with his studies in perception. | 1 | |
| 7415311265 | Hermann von Helmholtz | Physican. Performed groundbreaking experiments in visual and audiotory perception | 2 | |
| 7415311266 | Wundt | German psychologist. Believed that consciousness could be broken down into thoughts experiences emotions and other basic elements. Objective introspection- process of objectively examing and measuring ones owns thoughts and mental activitues. Father of psych | 3 | |
| 7415311267 | Titchner | Englishman, student of wundt. Structionalism. Focused on streucture of the mind. Believed every experience could be broken down into its individual emotions and sensations. | 4 | |
| 7415311268 | Margret F washburn | First woman to recieve a PH. D in psych. Was Titchnera only graduate student that year. 1908 published a book on animal behavior that was comsidered inportant in era of psych called The Animal Mind | 5 | |
| 7415311269 | Mary Whiton Calkins | Student of William james. Completed every requirement to earn PHD but was denied it from harvard bc she was a woman. Was allowed to take those classes as a guest only. Established a psych lab at Wellesley college. Her work was some of earliest research in memory and psych of the self. First female president of the APA in 1905. | 6 | |
| 7415311270 | Max wertheimer | Gestalt psychology. "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." Objected to structionalism. Believed perceiving and sensing couldnt br broken down into paets, they must be studied as a whole. "An organized whole or configuration" | 7 | |
| 7419559056 | Pavlov | Russian physiologist. Showed that a reflex could be caused by a completely unrelated stimulus. Experimented with dogs. Used conditioning | 8 | |
| 7419559057 | Conditioning | A learned reflexive response | 9 | |
| 7419559058 | Watson | Challenged functionalism and psychoanalysis. Behaviorism. Wanted to bring psych back to a scientific inquiry and believed you had to focus on observable behavior. It could be observed quantified etc. believed all behavior was learned counteracting to fraud believing behavior stems from unconscious motivation. "Little Albert " experiment. Believed phobias were learned through conditioning | 10 | |
| 7419559059 | Mary cover jones | Grad student of Watson. Added on to little Albert experiment. Did little Peter experiment. Conditioned him to be afraid of white rabbit then "counterconditioned" him to be unafraid of jt by placing it far away giving him food he likes then each time make it closer and closer. Early pioneer of behavior therapy. Influenced cognitive psych. | 11 | |
| 7421451190 | Cognitive perspective | Focused on memory intelligence perception thought processes problem solving language and learning | 12 | |
| 7421451191 | Cognitive neuroscience | Study of the physical workings of the brain and the nervous system when engaged in memory thinking and other cognitive processes | 13 |
