Origins of psychology

• what did Descartes say?


  mind and body are independent
• what Locke said?


  all experiences can be obtained through the senses. we don't inherit knowledge or instincts.
• Darwins theory

  evolutionary, behaviour is adaptive
• what method did wundt use?


  introspection
• what is introspection


  experiences analysed by thoughts and feelings.
• what was freuds approach

  psychodynamic approach
• negatives of Freuds approach

  cant see the unconscious mind, used single case studys
• what did Freud say drives our behaviour

  unconscious mind and childhood experiences
• who established the behaviourist approach

  watson and skinner.
• who developed the hunamistic approach

  rodgers and maslow
• what does the cognitive approach compare our mind too

  a computer.
• who proposed the social learning theory

  Albert bandura
• what is the social learning theory

  observing and imitating others
• characteristics of the behaviourist approach

  large samples, controlled, observable.
• what is the biological approach

  sees behaviour as rooted in the physiology and biology of the body. looks at biological structures like genes and nervous system.
• what does cognitive neuroscience do?

  investigates how biological structures influence mental states. links parts of the brain to mental processes.