AP Psychology Semester One
Subject:
Psychology [1]
Tags:
Mind [14]
cognitive science [15]
Psychology [16]
Mental processes [17]
memory [20]
Cognition [21]
Dream [22]
Consciousness [23]
Sleep [24]
brain [25]
health [26]
ap psychology [27]
Chapter 1- Thinking Critically 1. Phrenology: A theory that claimed bumps on the skull could reveal our mental abilities and our character traits. 2. Historical figures: - John Locke ("blank slate"): Believed that the at birth the mind was a blank slate, and that our brains grew and developed based on our experiences. The blank slate idea was called the ?tabular-raza? - Charles Darwin (evolution/adaptations): survival of the fittest - Wilhelm Wundt (structuralism and ?father? of psychology): Interested in studying people?s mental experiences. He used a method known as ?introspection? which had subjects engage in self-examination and describe their conscious experiences such as thinking feeling and perceiving.