1. psychology the study of behavior and mental processes
2. Wilhelm Wundt father of psychology - conscious mental processes
3. William James studied emotion and memory
4. behaviorists study directly observable things - Ivan Pavlov and B.F Skinner
-do not believe in free will
5. 2 doctors interested
in unconscious Sigmund Freud
processes Carl Jung - psychoanalysis
6. 3 groups of -those who take what is already known and apply it (therapy)
psycholo- gists
- research
-both
7. 6 perspectives of
psy- chology behavioral, cognitive, clinical, developmental, biological,
sociocultural
8. behavioral psychology human behavior, focusing on the process of learning and
motivation
9. developmental
psy- chology physical, emotional, and social changes that people undertake
through- out their lives
10. key contributors to
de- velopment genetics and brain structure
11. clinical psychology focuses on mental health and mental illness.
-includes psychodynamic and humanistic
12. psychodynamic model unconscious forces - Freud and Jung
13. humanistic model free will and personal responsibility - carl
rogers 14.
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sociocultural psycholo- gy
social and cultural contexts on human thought and behavior (culture,
gender, race)
15. biological psychology focus on how the body is linked to thought and behavior
(genetics,
hormones, anatomy)
16. Cognitive Psychology primarily the study of human thought
-attention, IA, memory, language, perception
17. bio-psycho-social mod-
el assumes that disorder is caused by biological, psychological,
and social factors
18. Research Method
Step 1 develop a hypothesis
19. step 2 design a test
20. step 3 analyze data
21. step 4 present/ publish the findings
-replication (5th repeating a research study)
22. Experiment control, control group, manipulation, IV, DV, IRB
23. control control all treatment conditions
24. Control group drug-free group
-can receive nothing or a placebo
25. independent variable manipulated variable
26. dependent variable outcome factor
27. institutional
review boards guidelines that govern human subjects research
(IRB)
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