Chapter 1: What is Psychology? Flashcards
subfields of psychology
POSSIBLE ANSWERS:
-Biological
-Development
-Cognitive
-Personality
-Clinical/Health
-Educational
-Social
-I/O
-Quantitative
Define psychology
understanding behavior and mental processing and how you apply that understanding to different context
what is FUNCTIONALISM?
focused on how psychological principles apply to one’s daily life by trying to understand how psychological concepts help people adapt to their environment
what is STRUCTURALISM?
building blocks of psychology (honestly not sure)
what is BEHAVIORISM?
how human behavior can be alternatively observed to explain psychology
LIMITATIONS of BEAVIORISM?
-ignore the black square of the SR response
-treated humans as blank slate
if one wants to take into account how humans think about and interact with each other, this would be ______ psychology
cognitive (sometimes called engineering)
what is the biological approach?
behavior and mental processes are largely shaped by biological processes by studying the psychological effects of hormones, genes, and the activity of the nervous system, especially the brain.
education psychology
-applying knowledge into school environments
-example: learning styles, first language learning vs native speaker
developmental psychology
-how behavior and mental processings change as we age
clinical/health psychology
think causes and treatments of disorders and behaviors of the brain
what is the behavior approach?
focused entirely on observable behavior and on how that behavior is learned.
what is the psychodynamic approach?
assumes that our behavior and mental processes reflect constant and mostly unconscious psychological struggles deep within us
what is the evolutionary approach?
assumes that the behavior and mental processes of animals and humans today are also affected by evolution through natural selection.
