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1. What is Psychology? - Answer-The scientific study of behavior and mental processes(Hard vs. Soft science) -focuses on critical thinking (not just negative) and is scientific 1. Pseudopsychologies - Answer-unreliable approaches that do not use the scientific method -astrology, palmistry, psychokinesis, follicology 1.Psychology's Four Goals - Answer-1. Description: tells" what occurred" 2. Explanation: tells "why" a behavior or mental process occurred 3. Prediction: identifies conditions "under which a future behavior or mental process is likely to occur" 4.Change: applies psychological knowledge to prevent unwanted or to bring about desired goals 1.Types of Psychology - Answer--biopsychology/ neuroscience -clinical and counseling psychology -cognitive psychology - developmental psychology education and school psychology experimental psychology -forensic psychology -gender/ cultural psychology -health psychology -industrial/organizational psychology -social psychology represents the largest group of Psychology? - Answer-Clinical psychology ns of psychology - Answer-wilhelm wundt structuralismfunctionalism psychoanalytic/ psychodynamic perspective 1. Wilhelm Wundt - Answer-"father of psychology" Leipzig, Germany 1879 1.Structuralism - Answer-sought to identify the basic building blocks, or structures, of the mind through introspection (Wundt and Titchener) focused on sensations and perceptual experiences 1. Functionalism - Answer-studied how the mind functions to adapt organisms to their environment (William James) 1. Psychoanalytic/ psychodynamic perspective - Answer-unconscious processes and unresolved past conflicts (freud was the founder) 1.Recent schools of thought - Answer--behavioral perspective - humanist perspective -cognitive perspective -neuroscience/ biopychology perspective 1. Behavioral perspective - Answer-objective, observable environmental influence on overt behavior (Watson, Pavlov, Skinner) 1. Humanist perspective - Answer-free will, self-actualization, and a positive, growth-seeking human nature (Rogers and Maslow) -inner-self and the importance of subjective feelilngs 1.Cognitive perspective - Answer-thought, perception, and information processing. 1. Neuroscience/ Biopsychology perspective - Answer-genetics and other biological processes in the brain and other parts of the nervous system 1. Brain Differences - Answer-difference between men and women is quite small.1. Evolutionary - Answer-natural selection, adaptation, and evolution 1. Sociocultural - Answer-social interaction and cultural determinants "sociobiology" 1. Gestalt psychology - Answer-emphasized perception; the notion that the whole is more than the sum of the parts (Wertheimer) 1. Cognitive psychology - Answer-focuses on mental function and reasoning (Ebbinghaus) 1. Psychological research can be either... - Answer-Basic: conducted to advance scientific knowledge Applied: designed to solve current practical problems