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| The scientific study of behavior and mental processes. |
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| All of our outward or overt actions and reactions which includes talking, facial expressions, and movement. |
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| All of the internal, cover (hidden) activity of our minds, such as thinking, feeling, and remembering. |
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| Involves observing a behavior and noting everything about it. |
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| Ask the question, Why is it Happening? |
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| Determining what will happen is the future. |
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| To change the behavior form an undesirable on to a desirable one. |
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- Focused on the structure or basic element of the mind.
- Came from one of Wilhelm Wundt's student, Edward Titchner
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- A psychologist who attempted th apply scientific principles to the study of the human mind.
- He developed a process know as objective introspection which was examining and measuring one's own thoughts and mental activities.
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- How the mind allows people to function.
- This was proposed by William James.
- This influenced Educational psychology, evolutionary psychology, and industrial/oraganizational psychology.
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- This is known as "good figure" psychology
- These ideas are now part of the study of cognitive psychology.
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- Theory and therapy based on the work of Sigmund Freud.
- Freuds patients suffered from nervous disorders that had to physical cause.
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- Science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior only.
- This was proposed by John B. Watson.
- Mary Cover Jones was an early pioneer in behavior therapy.
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- Psychodynamic Perspective
- Behavorial Perspective
- Humanistic Perspective
- Cognitive Perspective
- Sociolcultural Perspective
- Biopsychological Perspective
- Evolutionary Perspective
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| Psychodynamic Perspective |
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| Modern verson of psychoanalysis |
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- B.F. Skinner studied operant conditioning of voluntary behavior
- Behaviorism became a mjor force in the 20th century.
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- Owes a great deal to the early roots of psychology in the field of philosophy.
- People have to freedom to choose thier own destiny
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- Focuses on memory, intelligence, perception, problem solving, and learning.
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| Focuses on the relationship between social behavior and culture |
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| Biopsychological Perspective |
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| Attributes human and animal behavior to biological events occuring in the body, such as genetic influences, hormones, and the activity of the nervous system. |
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- focuses on the biologcal bases of universal mental characteristics that all humans share.
- Behavior is seen as having an adaptive of survival value
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