Intro to Psychology: Chapter Notes 1- 5
October 22nd, 2012
Chapter 1- What is psychology? [pp. 1-23]
LO1: Psychology as a Science (p. 4) * Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. * Seeks to describe, explain, predict, and control behavior and mental processes. * Theory * propose reason for relationships * derive explanations * make predictions
LO2: What psychologists do (p. 5-6) * Research * pure Research * Applied Research * Practice * Teaching * Fields of Psychology * Clinical Counseling School Industrial Educational Developmental personality Health Forensic Social Environmental Experimental sport
LO3: Where does psychology come from? (Germany) (p.7-10)
Aristotle: Peri Psyches
Democritus
Socrates: introspection * Psychology as a lab science * Gustav Theodor Fechner * Elements of psychophysics (1880) * Wilheim Wundt * First psych lab (1879) * Structuralism * Wilheim Wundt * Breaks down into * Objective Sensations * subjective feelings * mental images * mind functions by combining objective and subjective elements of experience * Functionalism * William James * Focuses on behavior in addition to mind and conciousness * uses direct observations to supplement introspection * influenced by Darwin’s theory of evolution * Behaviorism * John Broadus * Behaviorism focuses on learning behavior and learning observable (measureable) behavior. * B.F. Skinner * Learned behavior: Behavior that is reinforced. * Gestalt Psychology * Max whertheimer, kurt koffka. wolfgang Kohler * focuses on perception and its influence on thinking and problem solving * Perception is more than sum of their parts * active and purposeful * Insight learning * Psychoanalysis * sigmund freud *
Chapter 1- What is psychology? [pp. 1-23]
LO1: Psychology as a Science (p. 4) * Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. * Seeks to describe, explain, predict, and control behavior and mental processes. * Theory * propose reason for relationships * derive explanations * make predictions
LO2: What psychologists do (p. 5-6) * Research * pure Research * Applied Research * Practice * Teaching * Fields of Psychology * Clinical Counseling School Industrial Educational Developmental personality Health Forensic Social Environmental Experimental sport
LO3: Where does psychology come from? (Germany) (p.7-10)
Aristotle: Peri Psyches
Democritus
Socrates: introspection * Psychology as a lab science * Gustav Theodor Fechner * Elements of psychophysics (1880) * Wilheim Wundt * First psych lab (1879) * Structuralism * Wilheim Wundt * Breaks down into * Objective Sensations * subjective feelings * mental images * mind functions by combining objective and subjective elements of experience * Functionalism * William James * Focuses on behavior in addition to mind and conciousness * uses direct observations to supplement introspection * influenced by Darwin’s theory of evolution * Behaviorism * John Broadus * Behaviorism focuses on learning behavior and learning observable (measureable) behavior. * B.F. Skinner * Learned behavior: Behavior that is reinforced. * Gestalt Psychology * Max whertheimer, kurt koffka. wolfgang Kohler * focuses on perception and its influence on thinking and problem solving * Perception is more than sum of their parts * active and purposeful * Insight learning * Psychoanalysis * sigmund freud *