psychology - approaches

• in the 17th-19th century what was psychology defined as

  experimental psychology
• What did Wilhim wundt do in 1897

  opens first experimental psychology lab in germany
• what was wundts aim

  analyse the nature of human consciousness and therefore he represented first systematic attempt to study mind under controlled conditions-introspections
• Who emphasized the influence of the unconscious mind in psychology during the 1900s?

  sigmund freud
• What approach did Sigmund Freud develop in the 1900s that focused on the unconscious mind?

  Psychodynamic approach
• What type of therapy did Sigmund Freud create in the 1900s that involves exploring the unconscious mind?

  psychoanalysis
• How did Sigmund Freud explain physical problems in the 1900s?

  as conflicts within the mind
• What did John B watson write in 1913?

  Psychology as the Behaviourist views it
• who established the behaviourist approach in 1913

  John B Watson and BF Skinner
• Who discovered what approavh in the 1950s

  Carl rogers and abraham maslow discovered the humanist approach
• what else did rogers and maslow do

  rejected the behavurist and psychodanim view-that human ehaviour is determined by outside factors
• what do humanistic phsyochologists emphasise

  importance of self determination and free will
• what was introduced in the 1950s

  computers
• what does the cognitive approach reintroduce

  study of mental processes to psychology- more scientific way than wundt
• what approach was introduced in the 1960s and by who

  albert bandura proposes the social learning theory
• what is the social learning theory

  the approach draws attention to role of cognitive factors in learning and provides a bridge between new cognitive approach and traditional behaviourism
• what approach was established in 1980s

  biological approach as the dominant scientific perspective in psychology
• why?

  due to advances in technology that have increased understanding of the brain and biological processes
• eve of the 21st century

  -cognitive neuroscience approaches

  -brings together cognitive and biological approaches

  -investigates how biological structures influence mental states