AP Psychology 1.2 History and Approaches
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AP Psychology 1.2 History and Approaches. The study of the unconscious mind to explain behavior is referred to as psychoanalysis and was developed by who?
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austrian scientist and hear your pencil and well first up
is b f skinner an american psychologist and be a
theorist America people american Well that's enough to know he's
not our guy Let's Take it one step further Skinner
was known for his work with operate conditioning which last
we checked doesn't sound like psycho analysis Also american feel
helmut Well he's not our guy either While he was
the first to establish psychology is a legitimate scientific discipline
He definitely didn't work much with the unconscious mind Why
Because flint was best known for employing self reflective introspection
and introspection is the sort of thing you have tio
you know consciously do How about see jean pierre jai
Well p j was a swiss developmental psychologist Best known
for his work with children and his theory of cognitive
development This theory divided children's cognitive development into four distinct
stages throughout their adolescence an interesting theory but not what
we're looking for here and nope it's Not either John
b watson was an american psychologist who established the psychological
school of behaviorism not psycho analysis that leaves us with
the sigmund freud Freud develops Psychoanalysis is a therapeutic tool
in school of thought in psychology His theories were based
on the idea that behavior is affected by thoughts and
believes that people have but that they aren't thinking about
it In the moment they keep those thoughts in the
unconscious mind What does that mean Well if you had
a bad experience in your childhood it could still be
in rinsing your actions at this very moment without you
even realizing it Suddenly a lot of things make sense