1. Ch.1 Sect.2:What Psychologists Do

2. Clinical Psychologists
Scientific evidence
Research, consult, teach
Clinical largest group
Help with anxiety, depression, schizophrenia
Relationships, drugs, weight
Use interviews and tests
Change behavior
Work in…
Psychologist vs. Psychiatrists
Clinical Psychologists

3. Counseling Psychologists
Use interviews and tests
Treat people who have…
Examples…
Help clarify goals, overcome adjustment problems, meet challenges
Employed in…

4. School Psychologist
Identify and help students with problems that interfere with learning
Peer, family, psych problems…
Talk to…
Tests…
Observe
Placement

5. Educational Psychologists
Focus on course planning and instructional methods for…
Concerned with…
Research interests…
SAT

6. Developmental and Personality
Study changes that occur throughout life span
Types…
Heredity and environment
Adolescence
Personality identify traits such as shyness and friendliness
Study development
Issues such as…

7. Behavior in social situations such as…
Behavior in a setting
Attraction
Conformity
Group behavior
Prejudice and discrimination
Aggressive and helpful

8. Experimental Psychologists
Basic processes such as…
Relationships between biological changes and psychological events
Basic research—
Findings…

9. Other Specialists Industrial focus on people and work Organizational
Employed by…
Environmental
Consumer
Work for…
Forensic
Health

10. Ch.1 Sect.3:A History of Psychology

11. Wilhelm Wundt and Structuralism
Were concerned with discovering…
2 categories of consciousness…
Objective sensations and Subjective
Example…

12. William James and Functionalism
Experience is “stream of consciousness”
The Principles of Psychology
Concerned with how mental processes help…
Functionalism vs. Structuralism
Adaptive behavior…
Habits…

13. John B. Watson
Consciousness was private event known only to individual
Behaviorism—

14. B.F. Skinner and Reinforcement
When animal is reinforced…
Animals have been taught to…
People learn in the same ways as animals…

15. Gestalt School
Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, and Wolfgang Kohler fascinated by context influencing info
Based on idea that perceptions are more than the sums of their parts
Rather…
Learning is active and purposeful
Problem solving accomplished by insight, not…
Insight is…

21. Freud and Psychoanalysis
Emphasizes importance of unconscious motives and internal conflicts in determining human behavior
Slip of the tongue
Meaning of a dream
Hidden impulses
Consultations with patients
Came to believe that…
Psychodynamic thinking—