Early Psychology: Philosophers, Structuralism, and Functionalism

Psychology is the combination of two words:

CHOOSE TWO

• Psyche meaning mind

• Logos meaning study

• Psyche meaning study

• Logos meaning mind

Julie's psychologist  helped her get over her fears of  birds and cats. Which goal of psychology has her psychologist met? 

• control the problem

• investigate the problem

• label the problem

• predict the problem

Hippocrates did the following except:

• separated medicine from superstition

• experimented on babies and animals

• linked natural causes to disease

• thought good health was a balance in the 4 humors

True or False:

Socrates was a leading philosopher of his time. He thought the soul or mind was separable from the body and could be reunited after death.

• True

• False

Aristotle and Rene Descartes have this in common:

• They were both French

• They were both Greek

• They both believed that our experiences grow our knowledge

• They were both doctors

Empiricism: the idea that knowledge comes from our senses and we can test with experiments.

• John Locke

• Sigmund Freud

• Aristotle

• Plato

Wilhelm Wundt

• the founder of modern psychology

• the founder of modern philosophy

• a Greek mathematician

• an American Psychologist

Experimental psychology focused mainly on

• memory, attention, sensory processes, and reations

• thoughts, dreams, unconscious moments

• stream of consciousness

• animals and babies

Wilhelm Wundt believed psychology should be:

CHOOSE TWO THINGS

• a science

• a memory

• an experiment

• study consciousness

Wilhelm Wundt is associated with what form of psychology?

• structuralism

• behaviourism

• psychoanalysis

• functionalism