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| A science that seeks to understand behavior and mental processes and to apply that understanding in the service of human welfare. |
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| The focus on what goes right, on the things that make life most worth living. |
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| Use high-tech scanning devices and other methods to study how biological processes in the brain and other organs affect behaivor and mental processes. |
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| Changes in behavior and mental processes that occur from birth through old age and understanding that cause and effect. |
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| Study mental abilities such as sensation and perception, learning and memory, thinking, consciousness, intelligence, and creativity |
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| Study similarities and differences among people |
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| Conduct research on the causes of mental disorders and offer services to hep troubled people overcome disorders. |
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| Make sure services reach to the homeless and others who do not seek it. |
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| Study the ways people think about themselves and others and how people inflence one another. |
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| Industrial/organizational |
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| Study leadership, stress, competition, pay scales, and other factors that affect the efficiancy, productivity, and satisfation of workers and the organizations that employ them. |
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| Develop and use statistical tolls to analyze vast amounts of data collected by their colleagues in many other subfields. |
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| Established the first formal psychology research lab in Germany. Used the technique looking inward to observe conscious experience. |
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| Added clearness to quality and intensity as elements of sensation and called it structuralism, because he was trying to define the structure of consciousness. |
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-Began to unconscious
-Believed that all behaivor is motivated by pyschological processes at an unconscious level. |
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| A theory of personality and mental disorder, as well as a set of treatment methods. (Freud) |
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| Functionalism: focused on the rold oc conschousness in guiding peoples ability to make decisions, solve problems, and the like. |
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| Observable behavior of animals and humans iss the most important source of scientific info for psych. |
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-Behaivor and mental processes are largely shaped by biolgical processes.
-Studies the psychological effects of hormones, genes, and the activity of the nervous system, especially the brain. |
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| The Evolutionary Approach |
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| The behavior of animals and humans today is also the result of evolution through natural selection. |
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| The Psychodynamic Approach |
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| Our behavior and mental processes reflect constant, and mostly unconscious, psychological struggles within us. |
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| Behaviorism characterizes behavior as primarily the result of learning. |
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| Forcuses on how we take in, mentally represent, and store info; and how cognitive processes are related to our behavior. |
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| See behavior as determined primarily by each person's capacity to choose to think and act. |
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| The accumulation of values, rules of behavior, forms of expression, religious beliefs, occupational choices, and the like for a group of people who share a common language and enviornment. |
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