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CH.1
Intro to Psych.
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
05/03/2009

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Term

Psychology in Principle

 

(levels of analysis)

Definition

 the study of behavior and mental processes

 

1. Biological: concerned with the physical aspect and changes in the brain

 

2. Cognitive: the input output relationships of an individual

 

3. Cultural: relationships among people, emotional reactions to others 

Term

Psychology in Practice

 

(questions & procedures)

Definition

Does the desire to conform affect behavior?

 

-consists of a series of questions on the mind & behavior

 

-use scientific method to answer questions

 

-study a product of history

Term

Current Areas

 

1. Applied

2. Research

Definition

1. apply principles, theories to solve a problem

-Psychiatrist: medical doctor, prescribe perscriptions

-psychologist: has a phd

 

2. What this course focuses on!

Term

Orgins

 

1. Philosophy

 

Definition

How are Mind & Body related?

-Dualism: Mind and body are seperate entities(Descarte)

Modified Dualism:

-Some behavior is controlled by body and some are controlled by mind

 

How is knowlede aquired?

-Nativism: Plato--some knowlede is innate, youre born w/ certain brain structures that help us perceive the world

-Empircism: Aristotle--knowledge is acquired through experience

 

Term

Orgins

 

2. Physiology (Science)

Definition

Natural Selection (Charles Darwin)

 

-we've evolved into social animals

-scientific inquiry into physical behavior

-Reflexology: all human behaviors occur through reflex

Term
3 Early Schools of Thought
Definition

1. Structuralism (Germany): study of immediate conscious experience... what is the mind doing?

-Wundt=1st psychologist, had 1st psych. lab & school to study

 

2. Functionalism (USA): what is the function of certain mental processes?

-study interactions of organisms

-beginning of industrial school psychology

 

3. Behaviorism: focuses on learning things from the environment

-B.F. Skinner=looked at how actions are changed from punishment & reinforcement

Term
Women in Early Psychology
Definition

1. Mary Calkins: 1st female president of APA(1905); came up with paired associate learning technique

 

2. Margaret Washburn: 1st female PHD in Psychology(1895)

 

3. Christine Laddfranklin:worked on color vision

 

4.Lillian Martian: study perceptions

Term
Sigmund Freuds Structure of the Mind
Definition

1. Id: pleasure principle; born with id, primal animal instincts, repressed thoughts of the unconscious mind, has no regaurd for consiquences or reality

 

2. Ego: self; our conscious self, reality principle must constrain the id

 

3. Superego: ethical component; punishes ego through guilt

Term
Cognitive Revolution
Definition

-Cognitive=process of knowing or percieving

 

Why the return to studying research techniques?

-development of advanced research techniques

-developement of computers

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