Module 1 Flashcards
Name the five major theoretical perspectives
- Structuralism
- Functionalism
- Psychodynamic psychology
- behaviorism
- Cognitive psychology
Name the six schools of psychology
- biological psychology
- psychodynamic
- behaviorist psychology
- Humanistic psychology
- cognitive psychology
- Evolutionary psychology
What is Psychology?
Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behavior
All psychologists have one thing in common, they use:
Scientific Methods - the set of assumptions , rules and procedures that scientists use to conduct empirical research.
What’s the difference between applied psychological research and Basic psychological research?
Applied research use existing research to enhance people everyday life
While Basic psychologists conduct research to create the new knowledge.
What is intuition?
Direct perception of truth or fact, independent of any reasoning process.
What is popular opinion?
refers to widely held beliefs that have become part of public belief via media, or even education and the law.
What is pseudoscience and how can you detect it?
Pretends to be or has a close resemblance to science. Doesn’t equate to the scientific method.
Often avoids self correction, where’s the scientific method attempts to evolve and self correction. and focuses on disproving hypothesis. Strives for confirmation, relies on testimonial and anecdotal and testimonial research rather then formal research.
What are empirical methods?
The process of collecting and organizing data and drawing conclusions
What is critical thinking?
The willingness to assess claims and make objective judgements on the basis of well-supported reasons and evidence, rather than emotion or anecdote.
Name the eight guidelines for critical thinking
- Ask questions about the world and be willing to wonder.
- Define your terms
- Examine the evidence
- Analyze Assumptions and biases
- Avoid Emotional Reasoning
- Don’t Oversimplify
- Consider other interpretations
- Tolerate uncertainty
What does it mean to “Analyze Assumptions and Biases?”
- Critical thinkers identify and evaluate assumptions that could possibly influence their conclusions. Things we assume to be true without evaluating if they are true.
“overweight people are lazy”
What does it mean to “don’t oversimplify?”
Look past the obvious, resist easy generalizations and reject black and white thinking. As Psychology doesn’t have simple answers.
” One refugee did a crime that means all refuges are criminals”
What is structuralism?
A goal of psych to understand the basic elements of psychological experience; understand the nature of consciousness.
What is functionalism?
aimed to understand why animals and humans have developed that particular psychological aspects they currently posses.
