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What is psychology? ✔✔the scientific study of behavior and mental processes How did psychology begin as a field? ✔✔Wundt- wanted to be separate from philosophy and physiology Psychology's ... 4 goals ✔✔to describe, explain, predict, and to change Structuralism ✔✔Edward Titchener- every experience could be broken down into its individual emotions and sensations Functionalism ✔✔William James- how people work, play, and adapt to their surroundings Behaviorism ✔✔John Watson-the study of behavior Psychoanalysis ✔✔basis of modern psychotherapy. based off of Freud's ideas Sigmund Freud's ideas ✔✔there is an unconscious mind into which we push or repress all of our threatening urges and desires. Behavior stems from unconscious motivation Gestalt Psychology ✔✔Max Wertheimer- studying whole patterns rather than small pieces of them Psychodynamic perspective ✔✔unconscious mind and its influence over conscious behavior on wary childhood experiences Sociocultural perspective ✔✔combines social and cultural psychology [Show More]

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