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Psychology - Answer-the scientific (empirical) study of behavior and mental processes Psychology seeks to: - Answer-Describe behavior and mental processes Understand Predict Modify Subdisciplines of Psych - Answer-Human Developmental/Family Cognitive/Psycholinguistics Developmental/Child Industrial/Organizational Personality-Social Clinical and counseling psych are very similar in their day to day. Psychological Disciplines Learning: - Answer-rewards and consequences Psychological Disciplines Personality/social: - Answer-how social interactions influence behavior Psychological Disciplines Cognitive: - Answer-beliefs, memory, reasoning and problem solving Psychological DisciplinesBehavioral neuroscience: - Answer-how brain, mind and behavior interact w/ environment Evolutionary psychology Psychological Disciplines clinical/counseling: - Answer-diagnosis and treatment of mental/emotional/behavioral disorders Psychological Disciplines Educational: - Answer-learning and teaching Psychological Disciplines Forensic: - Answer-Psychology, law, and criminal justice Psychological Disciplines Industrial/Organizational: - Answer-Psychology in the workplace Psychological Disciplines Developmental: - Answer-How our species develops Psychological Disciplines Health: - Answer-How psychological factors influence health, illness and health habits The limbic system - Answer-the emotional part of your brain. Information is processed there first. What percent of how we act is based off of our personality? - Answer-9% of how we act is based off of our personality. The rest is based off of our environment and the social cues we observe around us. physics: - Answer-studies physical properties of light and sound psychophysics: - Answer-studies human perception of light and soundGustav Fechner - psychophysics - Answer-First scientific form of psychology Laboratory studies of the subjective experience of physical sensations Relationship between the physical and psychological worlds absolute threshold - Answer-the bare minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the time Wilhelm Wundt: Psychology Becomes Science - Answer-- Begins first laboratory in Leipzig, Germany (1879) - Consciousness (the mind) could be studied empirically - The method: Trained introspection - "The exact description of consciousness [Bewusstein] is the sole aim of experimental psychology" case studies - Answer-just studies one person Structuralism - (E.B. Tichner ) Asks "What?" - Answer-- Believed that the human 'mind' could be studied through the systematic exploration of sensation and thought. - Sensation: intensity, duration, extent, quality Functionalism (William James ) Asks "why?" - Answer-- Harvard psychologist - offered one of the 1st courses in Psychology - Behavior must serve a purpose (function) for the organism - How does a particular or mental process help people survive and adapt? Who is considered the father of modern psychology? - Answer-Wilhelm Wundt Psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud ) - Answer-- Neurologist who sought to treat 'hysterical' symptoms through Joseph Breuer's "talking cure" - Somatic symptoms with no physical origin. Freud thought it came from their minds.- Free association - Dream interpretation - Everything is data Method of Tenacity - Answer-generalizations and "common sense" Method of Authority - Answer-theories are accepted as true because they are proffered by a person in a position of spiritual or political authority A priori Method - Answer-pure reason and logic Critical Thinking - Answer-Ask questions Define your terms Examine the evidence Analyze assumptions/biases - "we see what we want to see" Avoid emotional reasoning Don't oversimplify Consider other interpretations Tolerate uncertainty