Portage learning General Psychology 101 Final exam
Psychology ✔️the study of behavior and mental processes
Father of modern psychology ✔️Wilhelm Wundt is often considered to be the father of modern psychology, since he was largely responsible for
establishing psychology as its own field. Late 1800s
William Wundt focus ✔️He was interested in conscious mental processes, or thoughts that a person is aware that he or she is having
Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner ✔️Behaviorists - interested in behaviors they they could learn about through direct observation
Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung ✔️Unconscious mental processes - thoughts that a person is unaware that he or she is having
Type of therapy administered by Freud and Jung ✔️psychoanalysis
6 Psychology perspectives ✔️Behavioral, developmental, clinical, biological, sociocultural, cognitive.
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Behavioral psychology ✔️Primarily study human behavior, focusing on the process of learning and motivation.
Developmental psychology ✔️Focuses on the physical, emotional, and social changes that people undertake throughout their lives.
Clinical psychology ✔️Focuses on mental health and mental illness. Includes psychodynamic psychology and humanistic psychology (2 therapy
models)
Famous developmental theorist ✔️Jean Piaget - fit in the cognitive perspective to his developmental psychology approach
Psychodynamic model of clinical psychology ✔️Describes powerful, unconscious forces at work in the human psyche ("soul"). - perspective
adhered to by Freud and Jung
Humanistic model of clinical psychology ✔️Focuses on characteristics of humankind: free will and personal responsibility. Carl Rogers
Biological Psychology ✔️Focus on how the body is linked to thought and behavior. (genetics, hormones, anatomy)
Sociocultural psychology ✔️Examine the social and cultural contexts of human thought and behavior. View social and environmental influences
as being hugely important contributors to behavior.
Cognitive Psychology ✔️Primarily study human thought. - intelligence and memory. Arose after behaviorism.
Who bridged the gap from behaviorism to cognitive psychology ✔️Albert Bandura - examined some cognitive processes (such as intelligence and
memory) and how they govern behavior.
Bio-psycho-social model ✔️The most common approach to combining different psych perspectives.
Holistic view of human functioning Biological - address biological factors that lead to a behavior - i.e. the way our nervous system operates or
our genetic inheritance.
Psychological - factors like learning, motivation, and personality are necessary to understand human behavior.
Social - factors like relationships and culture affect behavior.
Replication ✔️Repeating a research study - results need to be consistently reliable. Replication across multiple sites and studies can establish
scientific findings, showing their consistency and increasing our confidence in results
Scientific Method ✔️1. Develop a hypothesis
2. Design a test
3. Analyze data
Psychology ✔️the study of behavior and mental processes
Father of modern psychology ✔️Wilhelm Wundt is often considered to be the father of modern psychology, since he was largely responsible for
establishing psychology as its own field. Late 1800s
William Wundt focus ✔️He was interested in conscious mental processes, or thoughts that a person is aware that he or she is having
Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner ✔️Behaviorists - interested in behaviors they they could learn about through direct observation
Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung ✔️Unconscious mental processes - thoughts that a person is unaware that he or she is having
Type of therapy administered by Freud and Jung ✔️psychoanalysis
6 Psychology perspectives ✔️Behavioral, developmental, clinical, biological, sociocultural, cognitive.
BBCCSD
Behavioral psychology ✔️Primarily study human behavior, focusing on the process of learning and motivation.
Developmental psychology ✔️Focuses on the physical, emotional, and social changes that people undertake throughout their lives.
Clinical psychology ✔️Focuses on mental health and mental illness. Includes psychodynamic psychology and humanistic psychology (2 therapy
models)
Famous developmental theorist ✔️Jean Piaget - fit in the cognitive perspective to his developmental psychology approach
Psychodynamic model of clinical psychology ✔️Describes powerful, unconscious forces at work in the human psyche ("soul"). - perspective
adhered to by Freud and Jung
Humanistic model of clinical psychology ✔️Focuses on characteristics of humankind: free will and personal responsibility. Carl Rogers
Biological Psychology ✔️Focus on how the body is linked to thought and behavior. (genetics, hormones, anatomy)
Sociocultural psychology ✔️Examine the social and cultural contexts of human thought and behavior. View social and environmental influences
as being hugely important contributors to behavior.
Cognitive Psychology ✔️Primarily study human thought. - intelligence and memory. Arose after behaviorism.
Who bridged the gap from behaviorism to cognitive psychology ✔️Albert Bandura - examined some cognitive processes (such as intelligence and
memory) and how they govern behavior.
Bio-psycho-social model ✔️The most common approach to combining different psych perspectives.
Holistic view of human functioning Biological - address biological factors that lead to a behavior - i.e. the way our nervous system operates or
our genetic inheritance.
Psychological - factors like learning, motivation, and personality are necessary to understand human behavior.
Social - factors like relationships and culture affect behavior.
Replication ✔️Repeating a research study - results need to be consistently reliable. Replication across multiple sites and studies can establish
scientific findings, showing their consistency and increasing our confidence in results
Scientific Method ✔️1. Develop a hypothesis
2. Design a test
3. Analyze data
