Lesson 1 Flashcards
Scientific study of behavior and mental process
Psychology
Outward or overt actions and reactions
Behavior
Internal, covert activity of minds
Mental processes
4 goals of Psychology
Description
Explanation
Prediction
Control
Focused on structure or basic element of the mind
Structuralism
Opened the institute for experimental Psychology at the University of Leipzig in Germany 1879
Wilhelm Wundt’s
Who is the Father of Psychology
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt’s
Who brought Structuralism to America
Edward Titchener (Wundt’s student)
First woman to earn PH. D in field of Psychology
Margaret Washburn
How the mind allows people to adapt, live, work and play.
Who proposed this
Proposed by William James
Functionalism
“Good Figure” Psychology Started with Wertheimer who studied sensation and perception.
Gestalt psychology
A field focusing not only on perception but also in learning memory
Cognitive Psychology
The theory and therapy based on the work of Sigmund Freud
Psychoanalysis
Freud proposed that there is ________,_________,_________
Unconscious, Conscious, Subconscious
Seven Modern Perspective
Psychodynamic perspective
Behavioral perspective
Humanistic perspective
Biopsychological perspective
Cognitive perspective
Sociocultural perspective
Evolutionary perspective
Modern version of Psychoanalysis
Psychodynamic perspective
Development of a sense of self and discovery of other motivations behind persons behavior than sexual motives
Psychodynamic perspective
Skinner studied operant condition of voluntary behavior
Behavioral perspective
People have free will, the freedom to choose their own destiny.
Humanistic perspective
Achieving ones potential or actual self.
Self actualization
Early founders of Humanistic perspective
Abraham Maslow
Carl Rogers
Human and animal behavior. such as genetic influence, hormones and activity of nervous system
Biopsychological perspective
Focuses on memory, intelligence, perception, problem solving and learning
Cognitive perspective
Relationship between social behavior and culture.
Sociocultural perspective
Biological bases on universal mental characteristic that all humans share
(looks at the way the mind works and why it works as it does)
Evolutionary perspective
Types of Psychological professionals
Psychiatrist
Psychoanalyst
Psychiatric social worker
Psychologist
A medical doctor who has specialized in the Diagnoses and treatment of Psychological disorders
Psychiatrist
Either a psychiatrist or a psychologist who has special training in the theories of Sigmund Freud and his method of psychoanalysis
Psychoanalyst
A social worker with some training in therapy methods who focuses on the environmental conditions that can have an impact on mental disorders such as poverty, overcrowding stress and drug abuse.
Psychiatric social worker
A professional with an academic degree and specialized training in one or more areas of psychology
Can do counseling, teaching and research
Psychologist
System of gathering data so that bias and error measurement are reduced
Scientific Method
tentative explanation of a phenomenon based on observation
Hypothesis
The science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior only.
Behaviorism
Based much from work of Ivan Pavlov who demonstrated that a reflex could be conditioned (learned)
He believed that phobias were learned.
Case of Little Albert - taught to fear a white rat.
John B. Watson
Variable in an experiment that is manipulated by experimenter
Violent Tv
Independent variable
variable in an
experiment that represents the measurable
response or behavior of the subjects in the
experiment.
DV:
Aggressive
play
Dependent Variable
subjects in an experiment
who are subjected to the independent variable.
Exp
Group:
Experimental group
subjects in an experiment who
are not subjected to the independent variable
and who may receive a placebo treatment
(controls for confounding variables).
TV
Control
Group:
No TV
Control group
a measure of the relationship
between two variables.
Correlation
