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PYCH INTRO
first lecture-telling what pyschology is
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
01/22/2010

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Psychology
Definition

science that seeks to understand behavior and mental processes.

~seeks to apply that understanding in the services of human welfare

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Science
Definition
An objective way to answer questions that is based on observable facts or data and well described methods
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mental processes
Definition
thoughts, feelings, sensations, perceptions, memories, dreams, motives, and other subjective experiences
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Behavior
Definition
observable action of a person or animal
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Cognitive Psychology
Definition
Study mental abilities such as sensation, perception, learning, memory, thinking, intelligence
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personality psychology
Definition
study similarities and differences between people
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Wilhelm Wundt
Definition

founded the first psychology laboratory in 1879 in Leipzig, Germany

studied reaction time (how much time a mental process took to occur), attention, feeling, and word association

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Hippocrates (460 B.C.)
Definition

ancient greek physician

~believe there were four different "humors" in the body

~imbalance in humors produces disease or illness and affect temperament and personality

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Galen (A.D. 130-200)
Definition

Roman physician and anatomist

~examined the function of the heart and brain

~described a method for "recognizing and curing all disease of the soul"

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Confucius
Definition

Chinese philosopher and educator

~discusses human nature and how it can be modified through education

~suggested use of "personality assessments" to guide education

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Franz Joseph Gall
Definition

German Physician

believed that personality could be determined from bodily appearance

traveled to prisons and asylums to measure or "read" the skulls of the inmates

developed a doctrine of the skull

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Structuralism
Definition

pioneered by Edward Titchener (student of Wundt's)

interested in what elements make up the structure of mind

~Used the technique of introspection-a systematic examination of subjective mental experiences

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William James
Definition

argued that the mind is much to complex to be broken down

veiwed the mind as ever-changing series of thoughts

 

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Functionalism
Definition

examines the function of the mind and how it operates

what is the adaptiveness of human behaviors and mental processes

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Gestalts Pyschology
Definition
Idea that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
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Sigmund Freud (19/20 century)
Definition

deduced  that much of human behavior is below the level of conscious awareness (unconscious)

~developed a therapeutic method of psychoanalysis

~bring the unconscious into conscious awareness

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John B. Watson (1913)
Definition

behaviorism looks at the effect of environment forces in producing behavior

all behaviors are learned

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