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
Wertheimer
Gestalt, the whole is more than the sum of its parts
