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Psychology
Science of behavior and mental processes TERM 2
Behavior
DEFINITION 2 Anything that an oranism does that can be observed or recorded TERM 3
Mental processes
DEFINITION 3 Perceptions, dreams, thoughts, pain, etcs (infer by observation) TERM 4
Psychologist (duties)
DEFINITION 4 Person with specialized graduate training that can: - Research- (basic-not specific (IE neuron study); applied- designed to solve a specific problem. -Teach -Consult TERM 5
Psychology's 3 main levels of Analysis
DEFINITION 5 Biological Influence Psychological Influence Social Culural Influence
Biopsycho social perspective
Incorporating a variety of factors when solving a problem TERM 7
Neuroscience
DEFINITION 7 How the body and brain make emotions, sensory expereinces, etcs TERM 8
Evolutionary Psych
DEFINITION 8 How the natural selection of traits promotes the perpetuation of one's genes TERM 9
Behavioral Genetics
DEFINITION 9 How genes vs environment influence individual differences (Nature vs Nurture, i.e. twins) TERM 10
Psychodynamic
DEFINITION 10 How behavior is related to unconvious drives and conflicts. Focus is on aggression and sexual impulses (i.e. blocking out traumatic events)
Roots of Psych:Philosophy
Philosophy (question: can people be molded from birth?) Greek philosophers: Descartes: looking @ body and mind as seperate (dualism). Believed body was subject to physical alaws and rulese that are predictable, while the mind is unpredictable and spiritual, therefore, the mind is unable to be studied TERM 17
Monist(s)
DEFINITION 17 Body and mind are one TERM 18
Roots of Psych: Physiology
DEFINITION 18 -Helmholtz (1821-1891)- Studied sensory receptors (eyes and cars). Known for a theory of color vision -Fechner (1801-
- Invented Psychophysics-Looks at relationship of physical stimuli and one's reesponse to it TERM 19
Roots of Psych:
Medicine
DEFINITION 19 -Kraepelin (1856-1926)- Physician who stated there are physical problems that cause mental disorders. Developed the very first system for clayssifying mental disorders - Charcot (1825-1893)-Physician who started to treat certain phyhsical ailments with hyponoses. People wondered of connection between physical problems and mental disorders TERM 20
Wilhelm Wundt
DEFINITION 20 German philospher and physiologist Established first physchology labratory in Leipzig, German in ****1979**** - 1st modern physchological experiments
Edwarn Titchner
Wundt's student Introspection (interviewing)-used to study attention span, reaction time, time perception, memory (Problems: people need to be smart and verbal; some are not capable due to alzheimers or poor vocabulary) TERM 22
Structuralism (late 1800's)
DEFINITION 22 Focused on elements (structure) of the mind -used introspection TERM 23
Functionalism(1800's-early 1900's)
DEFINITION 23 Focused on how behavioral processes help organisms adapt TERM 24
William James
DEFINITION 24 Functionalist Published "Principles of Psychology" 1890 Taught 1st psych course at Harvard TERM 25
Sigmund Freud
DEFINITION 25 Austrian Neurologist Believed sexual and aggressive impulses were teh source of human problems Focused moslty on clinical practice Introduced psychoanalysis (1900) in "The Interpretation of Dreams," designed to make unconcious impulses concious.
