PSY 105 History Vocab

Any physical energy sensed by an organism

To look within; to examine one's own thoughts, feelings, or sensations

The school of thought concerned with anylyzing sensations and personal experience into basic elements

The school of psychology concerned with how behavior and mental abilities help people adapt to their environments.

is credited with making psychology an independent science, separate from philosophy. He also investigated how sensations, images & feelings combine to make up personal experience.

was the son of philosopher Henry James, Sr., & the brother of novelist Henry James. During a long academic career, he taught anatomy, physiology, psychology, and philosophy at Harvard University. He beleived strongly that ideas should be judged in terms of their practical consequences for human conduct.

The school of psychology that emphasizes the study of overt, observable behavior.

his intense intrest in observable behavior began with his doctoral studies in biology & neurology. He became a psychology professor at Johns Hopkins University in 1908 & advanced his theory of behaviorism. He remained at Johns Hopkins until 1920 when he left for a career in the advertising industry.

Studied simple behaviors under carefully controlled conditions. The "Skinner Box" has been widely used to study learning in simplified animal experiments. In addition to advancing psychology, he hoped that his radical brand of behaviorism would improve human life.

first proposed the Gestalt viewpoint to help explain perceptual illusions. He later promoted Gestalt psychology as a way to understand not only perception, problem solving, thinking & social behavior but also art, logic, philosophy and politics.

Contents of the mind that are beyond awareness, especially impulses and desires not directly known to a person.

A Freudian approach to psychotherapy emphasizing the exploration on unconscious conflicts

An approach to psychology that focuses on human experience, problems, potentials, and ideals.

The idea that all behavior has prior causes that would completely explain one's choices and actions if all such causes were known.

The idea that human beings are capable of freely making choices or decisions

for more then 50 yrs., he probed the unconscious mind. He altered modern views of human nature. his early experimentation with a "talking cure" for hysteria is regarded as the beginning of psychoanalysis. Through psychoanalysis, he added psychological treatment methods to psychiatry.

a founder of humanistic psychology, he was interested in studying people of exceptional mental health. He beleived that self-actualized people, made fuller use of their talents and abilities. He offered his postive view of human potential as an alternative to the schools of behaviorism and psychoanalysis.

The ongoing process of fully developing one's personal potential.

The unconcious process by which memories, thoughts or impulses are held out of awarness.

is your preception of your own body, personality and capabilities.

refers to appraising yourself as good or bad.

is a mental perspective used to interpret events.