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1 Unit 1: Psychology’s History and Approaches

2 What is Psychology?

3 Psychology’s Roots Prescientific Psychology
Ancient Greeks Socrates Plato Aristotle

4 Psychology’s Roots Prescientific Psychology
Rene Descartes Francis Bacon John Locke Tabula Rasa (blank slate) Empiricism

5 Psychology’s Roots Psychological Science is Born
Wilhelm Wundt (1879) University of Leipzig Reaction time experiment Credited with starting modern psychological experimentation

6 Psychology’s Roots Thinking About the Mind’s Structure
Edward Titchener Structuralism introspection

7 Psychology’s Roots Thinking About the Mind’s Function
William James Functionalism Mary Calkins Margaret Floy Washburn Experimental psychology

8 Psychological Science Develops
Sigmund Freud

9 Psychological Science Develops
Behaviorism John B. Watson B.F. Skinner “study of observable behavior”

10 Psychological Science Develops
Humanistic psychology Carl Rogers Abraham Maslow Cognitive Neuroscience

11 Psychological Science Develops
Psychology Science Behavior Mental processes

12 Psychology’s Biggest Question
Nature – Nurture Issue Biology versus experience History Greeks Rene Descartes Charles Darwin Natural selection

13 Psychology’s Three Main Levels of Analysis
Biological Psychological Social-cultural Biopsychosocial Approach

14 Psychology’s Three Main Levels of Analysis

15 Psychological Approaches/Perspectives
Biological psychology Evolutionary psychology Psychodynamic psychology Behavioral psychology Cognitive psychology Humanistic psychology Social-cultural psychology

16 Psychological Approaches/Perspectives

17 Psychological Approaches/Perspectives

18 Psychology’s Subfields
Psychometrics Basic Research Developmental psychology Educational psychology Personality psychology Social psychology

19 Psychology’s Subfields
Applied Research Industrial/organizational psychology Human factors psychology Counseling psychology Clinical psychology Psychiatry

20 Empiricism = the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation.

21 Structuralism = an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind.

22 Functionalism = a school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function – how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish.

23 Experimental Psychology
= the study of behavior and thinking using the experimental method.

24 Behaviorism = the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2).

25 Humanistic Psychology
= historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people and the individual’s potential for personal growth.

26 Cognitive Neuroscience
= the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language).

27 Psychology = the science of behavior and mental processes.

28 Nature-Nurture Issue = the longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors. Today’s science sees traits and behaviors arising from the interaction of nature and nurture.

29 Natural Selection = the principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations.

30 Biological Psychology
= a branch of psychology that studies the links between biological (including neuroscience and behavior genetics) and psychological processes.

31 Evolutionary Psychology
= the study of the roots of behavior and mental processes using the principles of natural selection.

32 Psychodynamic Psychology
= a branch of psychology that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior, and uses that information to treat people with psychological disorders.

33 Behavioral Psychology
= the scientific study of observable behavior, and its explanation by principles of learning.

34 Cognitive Psychology = the scientific study of all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

35 Social-Cultural Psychology
= the study of how situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking. = the scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another.

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