Nature of Psychology and its importance In Everyday Life Flashcards
The systematic scientific study of behaviors and mental processes
Psychology
Refers to observable actions or responses in both human and animals
Behavior
Refers to observable actions or responses in both human and animals
Behavior
Wide range of complex mental processes which are not directly observable such as thinking imagining etc.
Mental processes
What are the four goals of psychology?
Describe
Explain
Predict
Control
It is an art because it involves elements of subjective creativity and intuition in developing theories
Psychology
Is the science of study of behavior and mental processes investigated through the use of scientific methods findings or empirical data
Psychology
It is a formal statement of ideas that are suggested to explain a fact or event or how something works
Theory
It allows you to propose reasons for relationships, derive explanations and make predictions
Theory
In this field of psychology it addresses a wide range of mental and behavioral health problems and marked by comprehensiveness and integration of knowledge and skill from a broad array of disciplines within and outside of psychology proper.
Clinical psychology
In this field of psychology, it focuses specifically but not exclusively on normative lifespan development, with a particular emphasis on prevention and education as well as addressing individuals and the system or context in which they function
Counseling psychology
In this field of psychology, it is the study of how people learn and retain knowledge and improve the learning process and promote educational success for all students
Educational psychology
In this field of psychology it focuses on human growth and changes across the lifespan including physical cognitive social intellectual perceptual personality and emotional growth.
Developmental psychology
In this field of psychology, it studies how individuals affect in our affected by other people and by their social and physical environments.
Social psychology
In this field of psychology it is about behavior motives and cognition in a laboratory or other controlled setting in order to predict explain or influence behavior or other physiological phenomena.
Experimental psychology
In this field of psychology it uses of psychological principles and research methods to improve the overall work environment including performance and communication and professional satisfaction and safety
Industrial or Organizational psychology
In this field of psychology it involves how we process, store and retrieve information and how cognitive processes influences our behavior.
Cognitive psychology
In this field of psychology their activities primarily intended to provide professional psychological expertise within the judicial and legal systems
Forensic psychology
He proposed the elements of psychophysics in 1860
Gustav Theodor Fechner
When was the first psychology labratory and where is it located?
Leipzig Germany (1879)
Who has the first psychology labratory in 1879 Leipzig Germany
Wilhelm Wundt
The study of the most basic elements primarily sensations and perception that make up our conscious mental experiences
Structuralism
It breaks conscious experiences into objective sensations such as site taste and subjective feelings emotional responses and will and also mental images like memories and dreams it stated that mind functions by combining objective and subjective elements of experience
Structuralism
A method of exploring conscious mental processes by asking subjects to look inward and report there sensations and perceptions. Heavily criticized for being an unscientific method because it was solely dependent on subjects self report which could be biased rather than objective on measurements.
Introspection
He proposed functionalism
William James
Is the study of the function rather than the structure of consciousness was interested in how our minds adapt to our changing environment. Mental activities as having developed through ages of evolution because of their adaptive functions such as helping human survive. It is influenced by darwin’s theory of evolution.
Functionalism
He proposed behaviorism
John Broadus Watson
It is the study of observable behavior and studies relationships between stimuli and responses. It emphasize the objective scientific analysis of observable behaviors
Behaviorism
He states that learn behavior is a behavior that is reinforce
B. F Skinner
A stimulus that follows a response and increases the frequency of the response
Reinforcement
Emphasize that perception is more than the sum of its parts and studied how sensations are assembled into meaningful perceptual experiences. It looks at the human mind and behavior as a whole
Gestalt psychology
Emphasize that perception is more than the sum of its parts and studied how sensations are assembled into meaningful perceptual experiences. It looks at the human mind and behavior as a whole
Gestalt psychology
The formulated the gestalt psychology
Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, Wolfgang Kohler
He proposed the psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
Emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and conflicts as determinants of human behavior
Psychoanalysis
