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| FOUR MAJOR RESEARCH PROSPECTIVES |
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A. BIOLOGICAL
B. COGNITIVE
C. BEHVIORAL
D. SOCIOCULTURAL |
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| BRAIN AND NERVOUS SYSTEM IS VIEWED AS THE MAJOR DETERMINER OF BEHAVIOR AND MENTAL PROCESSING |
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| HOW OUR MENTAL PROCESSES SUCH AS PERCEPTION, MEMORY, AND PROBLEM SOLVING, WORK AND IMPACT OUR BEHAVIOR |
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Example for what is psychology?: Tayshaun Prince
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| B-Ball player Kept shooting 3's. As he continues you get more excited, you sit up in your seat and make particular sounds. Your behavior and thinking is based on his shooting. |
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| The science that studies behavior and mental processes |
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| Discover the laws and principles that govern the relations among objects being studied. (laws enable predictions and sometimes control of the objects' action) |
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| 3 ways of practicing Psychology |
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1. Applied Psychological specialties (tackle real world problems)
2. Experimental Psychologists
3. Teachers of Psychology |
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| Electrical Brain Stimulation |
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| Relationship between the brain and psychological phenomena |
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| Example: The stroop effect. What did it prove? |
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| Automization- things are automatic, like reading the word before saying the actual color of the word. |
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| Things Psychologists Specialize in.. ? |
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1. Relationship between the brain and psychological phenomena
2. automization
3. conformity
4. eating disorders
5. forgetting |
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| Can be studied from different vantage points |
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Dreams:
Conscious mental experience |
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| incorporating what is said while sleeping into a dream (someone talks to you while you're sleeping and you dream about it) |
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Rapid Eye movement occurs in 85% of dreams
Electroencephalogram patterns during REM similar to those when awake. |
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Dreams:
Reflect the unconscious
(Freud) |
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Freud-dreams are a "censored masquerade" defending you from the clash between unconscious primitive urges and the civilizing constraints imposed by society.
Symbols- reflect unconscious urges |
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| reflect what you know, experiment, remembered or thought about. |
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1. Ask a Question
2. Formulate a Hypothesis
3. Collect Data
4. Analyze the Results
5. Publish the results |
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define what you are studying in terms of specific operations |
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| Research Methods of Psychology |
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1. Descriptive Methods
2.Correlational Method |
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1. Naturalistic Study
2.Survey
3. Case Study |
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| No interference with behavior (go to playground, observe boys and girls at recess, which are more aggressive? Operationally define aggression-physical outbursts) |
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| questionnaire or interview administered to a select group of people (obtain descriptions of behavior from more people than direct observation usually allows)(sample must be representative of the population) |
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| intensive description and analysis of a single individual |
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| Investigate the relationship between two variables to determine whether they occur together in a systematic way (relationship between height and weight) Correlations can vary value between +1 and -1 |
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