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Note Taking, History of Psych & Approaches

This document provides information about note taking strategies for a unit on the history, approaches, and research methods of psychology. It recommends looking at objectives and answering any questions, organizing ideas hierarchically with examples, making notes visual, relating concepts personally, and leaving space to add lecture details. Key names in the field are also listed, including Wilhelm Wundt as the founder of modern psychology and the first to use introspection in a laboratory. Other influential figures mentioned are G. Stanley Hall, Edward Titchener, and William James, who was critical of structuralism and influenced by Darwin's ideas of natural selection.

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Note Taking, History of Psych & Approaches

This document provides information about note taking strategies for a unit on the history, approaches, and research methods of psychology. It recommends looking at objectives and answering any questions, organizing ideas hierarchically with examples, making notes visual, relating concepts personally, and leaving space to add lecture details. Key names in the field are also listed, including Wilhelm Wundt as the founder of modern psychology and the first to use introspection in a laboratory. Other influential figures mentioned are G. Stanley Hall, Edward Titchener, and William James, who was critical of structuralism and influenced by Darwin's ideas of natural selection.

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Unit 1: History, Approaches & Research Methods

NOTE TAKING,
HISTORY OF PSYCH &
APPROACHES
Note Taking Strategies
•Look at the objectives
For each objective, try to satisfy it. If it says explain,
then explain. If it say’s give examples, do that.

•Hierarchal ideas
As you read, write down major ideas. Then provide
examples (these are key) used in the book or even
better, examples that you come up with that relate to
you.
:
Note Taking Strategies
•Answer the section questions
“How did the science of psychology develop?”
”What is psychology’s historic big issue?”
“What psychological approaches….?”

•Make it visual
Organize information into charts, diagrams,
stick figures – it all helps

•Make it personal
How does this relate to your life?
Note Taking Strategies
MOST IMPORTANT IDEAS
1. With the exception of vocabulary terms,
TAKE NOTES IN YOUR OWN WORDS!
This will help you remember and understand
ideas.
2. Include examples for every major concept.
You will need to do this in your essays.
3. Skip a lot of space between major ideas so
that you can fill in information from lectures.
KEY NAMES
• Bring your key name sheet with you to
class every day.

• Study your key name sheet when preparing


for your unit tests.

• Keep your key name sheet all year. It will


be collected and is worth BIG points in the
spring.
key name

Wilhelm WUNDT
•“founder of psychology”

•1st psych lab (1879 – Germany)

• structuralism: promoted studying and


describing the elemental parts
(structures) of consciousness
(sensations, feelings and images)
key name

G. Stanley HALL
•student of Wundt

• established first psych lab in US


(at Johns Hopkins University)

•founded the APA


(American Psychological Assn.)
key name

Edward TITCHNER
•student of Wundt

•later at Cornell -- articulated the


ideas of structuralism

•Used introspection (looking


inward) to explore the elemental
structures of the human mind
key name

William JAMES
•was a critic of Structuralism and
influenced by Charles Darwin’s ideas of
natural selection.
key name

William JAMES
• Publishes influential textbook, The Principles
of Psychology in 1890 which focused on
new system of psychology called
functionalism.

• Functionalism: focuses on understanding


the role (purpose/function) consciousness
plays in helping organisms adapt to their
environment.

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