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| established the first psych lab in leipzig germany. believed that behavior was formed by chemical compounds, 2 elements to human behavior, sensation and fear. used introspection to experiment w/ experiences. his focus was on the what and analyzing basic experiences into elements. |
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| responsible for the psychoanylitic approach, your mind is like a well w/ id, ego and superego. the unconcious has a large effect on our behavior. "The job of psychology is to help ppl who are experiencing pain, therapy is what psych should focus on." |
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is responsible for the functional approach:
1st american psychologist
wanted to know how and why, what purpose does experience serve. Wrote the 1st psychology text book. the american father of psych |
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| has a long past but a short history. A way to try and explain human behavior. |
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Free will- the belief that behavior is your choice
Determinism- everything has a cause but it is observable a->b |
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| every movement, thought etc is because of neuron's in the brain. how does a non-entity have control over a physical process? |
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is behavior b/c of instincts or b/c of how we are raised?
-you have to have both to mature
-intelligence is inheritable |
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| will not train you for a certain job, psych is a body of knowledge, it is a knowledge based subject of behavior |
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| the whole picture, the whole of an individual is greater then the sum of its parts. |
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| what you see is what you get, what you can't measure you ignore. Learning is critical to development, you are what you learn. |
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| the unconcious has a large effect on behavior |
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| Gestalt, behavioral, psychoanalytic, cognitive, humanistic and biological |
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| Nature vs Nurture, the mind body problem and free will vs determinism |
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| at birth you have the ability to be the best, but life gets in the way |
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| work w/ neuro transmitters, medication and hormones |
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| is to describe, change, explain and predict behavior. |
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| is to describe, change, explain and predict behavior. |
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| Collecting data from different sources, than putting that knowledge into a framework. |
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| we wanna know why. If we know maybe we can reverse the effects |
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| If I do X will Y reliably happen? |
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| how we can change behavior, wat works, what doesn't. |
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| are subjective not objective, further complicated b our own perspective, Can't be used to prove. |
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| your brain doesn't like them so it will fill in the blanks, not always with whats there |
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| and original study with important results. |
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| at Yale Univ. Stanley Millgram wanted to see how many ppl would actually shock the learner. |
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| must be general to the population |
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| your presence cannot interfere or alter behavior |
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| the quickest way of getting infor, provides LOTS of data. |
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| determined between 2 sets, anything that can be rated, measured, or scored, use a scatter plot, all you can say is theres a relationship. is a necessary feature for causeation but is not sufficent to prove cause |
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| controlled by the experimenter, the application of treatment. |
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| the organization and analysis of information. |
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| rank, order all the numbers |
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| uses one number to stand for a group. means a measure of control tendency. |
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| the average difference between each score in a set of data |
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