Week 1 Flashcards
Localisation of function
Different areas of the brain execute different functions
Biological psychology or behavioural neuroscience
Electrical and chemical processes that are underpin mental events
Broca’s area
Language production
Wernickes area
Language understanding
Psychology is
Scientific investigation of mental process and behaviour
Titchner
Structuralism
Damage to the front section of the left hemisphere or brockas are will cause?
Problems producing speech
What is a paradigm
Broad system of theoretical assumptions employed by a scientific community
Two schools of thought that dominated psych in its early years
Structuralism and functionalism
Psychodynamic perspective sites
Our thoughts and behaviours are influenced by conscious and unconscious forces that interact and may be opposing
Psychodynamic/Psychoanalysis approach originator
Sigmund Freud
WIlliam James
Functionalism
Behaviourism
Pavlov and skinner
Wundt
First Psych Lab
Humanistic Perspective
Maslow
Humanisitic perspective assumes that
Humans are innately good and will almost always chose adaptive and self actualising behaviours
Behaviourist perspective
Focuses on learning and the way environmental events control behaviour.
Cognitive Perspective
The way people perceive process and retrieve information
Humanistic Perspective
Uniqueness of the individual and their immediate experiences
Evolutionary perspective
Human tendencies evolved because they helped our ancestors to survive and reproduce.
Carl rRogers
Humanisitc
Rene Descartes
Cognitive
Darwin
Evolutionary
Psychodynamic
Freud
Behaviourist
Skinner
Humans and other animals are like machines and the mind is like a black box. Behaviour is learned and selected by its environmental consequences
Behaviourist
The mind is like a computer enduring patterns of thought are like software
Cognitive
Life is like a bottle of milk the cream always rises to the top.. Emphasising that everyone times to be the best they can be
Humanistic
Consciousness is like the tip of an iceberg the mind is like a battleground of warring fractions
Psychodynamic
Life is a race for survival and reproduction
Evolutionary
Biospychology
Investigates the physical basis of psychological phenomena such as thought emotion and stress
Developmental psychology
Studies the way thought, feeling and behaviour develop through the life span from infancy to death.
Social Psychology
Examines the interactions of individual psychology and group phenomena
Clinical psychology
focuses on the nature and treatment of psychological processes that lead to emotional distress
Cognitive psychology
Examines the nature of thought memory sensation perception and language
Personality Psychology
Peoples enduring ways of responding in different situations
Organisation psychology
Behaviour of people in organisations
educational psychology
Psychological processes in learning
Health psychology
psychological factors involved in health and disease
Counselling psychology
Provides diagnosis and assessment
Sport Psychology
Focuson on ways to enhance performance
Forensic Psychlogy
relevant to the prevention and treatment of criminal behaviour
Positive psychology
Examines the strengths and virtues that make individuals flourish and applies this knowledge
Conservation psychology
the reciprocal relationonships between humans and nature with a focus on changing attidues and behaviours to encourage conservation of the environment.
