Chapter 1 Flashcards
What is Psychology?
Scientific study of behavior and mental processes
What are behaviors?
Overt
What are Mental processes?
Covert
What are the 4 goals of Psychology
Describe Predict Explain & Control
-behavior &/or mental processes
Biological psychology
Academic
Neurological
Learning psychology
Making a relatively short change in behavior, leads to long-term changes in behavior potential.
-study of mental processes such as “attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and thinking.”
Cognitive psychology
-change/time , how and why human beings change over the course of their life
Developmental psychology
-uniqueness, studies personality and its variation among individuals.
Personality psychology
-how we influence and influenced by others
Social psychology
-Study stress and how it affects health/body
Health psychology
Take work/info & take it out to the world
Applied psychology
Wundt
Experimentalism, measurement of consciousness
Titchener
Structuralism, components of consciousness
James
Functionalism, adaptive nature of consciousness
