LESSON 1: SCOPE AND NATURE OF PSYCH

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Psychology comes from the greek words?

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Psyche and Logos

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Psyche and Logos Means?

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Spirit, Soul, Human Mind and The Study of

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What is Psychology?

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it is the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes.

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What are the 4 goals of psychology?

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Description, Explanation, Prediction, Control

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in the 4 goals of Psychology This involves observing a behavior and noting everything about it.

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Description

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in the 4 goals of Psychology it involves Trying to understand or find an explanation for a certain behavior.

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Explanation

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in the 4 goals of psychology it involves Determining (to predict) if and when the
behavior will happen.

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Prediction

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In the 4 goals of psychology it involves To control or modify behavior, is to change a behavior from an undesirable one (failing in school) to a desirable one (academic success)

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Control

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How many years has psychology been in existence

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130-150 years

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you believe that you are who you are because you were born with the genes that
predisposes you to certain traits, personalities, and behaviors

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Nature

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you believe that who you are now is the result of your interaction with the environment around you

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Nurture

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He agreed with Plato that the pineal gland (small organ at the base of the brain) was the seat of our soul.

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Rene Descartes

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the belief that some ideas are innate (inborn).

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Nativist view

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is the view that behavior is innately determined. Simply put, we are who we are because we were born that way

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Nativism

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He believed that people are born
into this world as blank slates (imagine a piece of blank bond paper)

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John Locke

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What did John Locke call people are born into this world as blank slates?

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Tabula Rasa

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is the view that behavior is learned as a
result of experience. Simply put, we are who are because of our experiences

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Empiricism

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Who is the Father of Psychology

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Wilhelm Wundt

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was a student of Wundt and expanded Wundt’s ideas He called his viewpoint structuralism

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EDWARD TITCHENER

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the process of objectively examining and measuring one’s own thoughts and mental activities.

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Objective Introspection

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an early perspective in Psychology wherein the focus of study is the structure or basic
elements of the mind.

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Structuralism

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taught Psychology in Harvard University. He was more interested. He believed that studying consciousness scientifically was
not yet possible. He focused more on how
the mind allows people to function in the real world - how people, work, play, and adapt to their surroundings.

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William James

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is how mental processes influence behavior in order to help organisms function in its environment.

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Functionalism

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believed that psychological events such as perceiving and sensing could not be broken down into any smaller elements and still be
properly understood.

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Max Wertheimer

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(“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”). Take falling in love for example, you just cannot break it down to just emotions and feelings — they all go
together.

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Gestalt Psychology

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He believed that human behavior is deeply
influenced by unconscious thoughts, impulses, desires – especially those concerning sex and aggression. . He was a medical doctor — a neurologists to be exact. So he dealt with disorders of nerves and the nervous system.

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Sigmund Freud

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a theory and therapy technique that deals with the unconscious mind.

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Psychoanalysis

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wanted to bring back psychology back to a focus on scientific inquiry; he challenged structuralism, functionalism, and
psychoanalysis. He also believed
Believed in the power of conditioning - to the point of claiming that “Give me a dozen babies at birth, and I can turn them into anything I wish - A DOCTOR, A LAWYER, A BEGGAR, OR A THIEF.”

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John B. Watson

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Also known as the psychoanalytic perspective. focuses on
childhood experiences and the unconscious mind and how both can influences behavior, but there is lesser emphasis on sex and/or sexual motivations. The emphasis now is on the
development of the sense of self and the discovery of motivations behind a person’s
behavior.

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Psychodynamic Perspectives

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In this perspective, our behavior is caused by the consequences of our actions. is an approach that focused on how the environment influences behavior; this school of thought focuses on observable behavior (behavior that could be directly seen and measured).

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Behavioral Perspecitve

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is a school of psychology that studies
how people grow happier and more fulfilled; it emphasizes people’s
inherent goodness. It focuses on the subjective and personal experience of events and the need for personal growth.

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Humanistic Perspective

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mental process may be studied
in an objective fashion by focusing on specific behaviors and interpreting them in terms of underlying mental processes. This is one of the modern perspectives that focuses on memory, intelligence, perception, problem-solving, and learning when it comes to understanding and explaining behavior.

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Cognitive Psychology

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is the study of the biological bases of behavior and mental processes.

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Biopsychological Perspective

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This perspective studies the ways by which social and cultural environments influence behavior.

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Sociocultural Perspective

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focuses on the biological underpinnings of universal mental characteristics shared by
all humans. It aims to explain general mental strategies and traits such as why people lie, how attractiveness can influence selection of one’s mate, why being scared of snakes is so widespread, and why people all over the world enjoy music and dancing.

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Evolutionary Perspective

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has a medical degree and is able to prescribe medicines. As medical
professionals, they tend to have a biopsychological viewpoint on the causes and treatments of mental disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety.

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Psychiatrist

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on the other hand, does not have a medical degree, but rather conducts rigorous academic training, learning about many different fields of psychology before
choosing a specialty. typically cannot prescribe medicines.

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Psychologist

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What do Psychologists and Psychiatrists have in common.

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are experts in mental health and can conduct psychotherapy.

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diagnose and treat psychological
disorders. cannot prescribe drugs or medical therapies but instead relies on listening orobserving the client’s problems,
possibly administering psychological tests, and then explaining the client’s emotions and behavior or guiding the client in specific actions to make changes for the better in his or her life.

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Clinical Psychology

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typically works with generally healthy
individuals with less severe types of mental illness or challenges, such as adjusting to
college, marriage, family life, work issues, etc.

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Counseling Psychology

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focuses on the study of change or development. Developmental psychologists are interested in how people change in how they think, how they relate to other people, and how they feel over the course of their lives.

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Development Psychology

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is the study of how the presence of
other individuals influences human behavior. Social psychologists, for example, into attitude change, bias, aggressive behavior, and attraction.

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Social Psychology

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examines individual differences.
These psychologists may study personality and heredity.They compare and contrast persons. They analyze personality development. They may generate new
hypotheses and theories on development of personality.

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Personality Psychology