Myers Prologue and Ch 1
Prologue
Takes longer to be aware that youre perceiving something
o Wilhelm Wundt experiment
Structuralism/Introspection
o Makeup of the mind
o Wundt and Titchener
o Used introspection to reveal mind’s structure
o Looking inward is introspection
Report experience with senses
Did not work bc needed intelligence, ability to speak
Functionalism
o How we evolve
o James
o Evolved functions of thoughts and feelings
o Why do we smell/etc.
o Thought to be adaptive
Freudian Psychology
o Unconscious thought
o Emotional response to childhood
Behaviorism
o Examine stream of consciousness/emotion
o Watson and Skinner
Scientific study of observable behaviors
Humanism
o Rogers and Maslow
o Current environment influences people
o Potential to grow
Positive psychology
Look at people as a whole, not just those with mind disorders
The Cognitive Revolution
o How mind processes and retains info
o How to treat depression, etc.
o Cognitive psychology (mind science) with neuroscience
Biopsychosocial Approach
o Everything is linked
o Many influences lead to one event
o Biological influences
Genes
Predisposition
o Psychological influences
Learned things
, Environment
Fears
Emotional response
o Social-cultural influences
Presence of others
Expectations
Peers
Media
Neuroscience
o How the brain works
o Structure and function
Evolutionary
o Nature
o Change over time, not specific to one person’s environment
o How are humans alike
Behavior Genetics
o How we are different because genes/environments
o Environmental influence and genes
What triggers something
Psychodynamic
o Behavior based on unconscious drives
Some parts of our mind are inaccessible to us
Events from our life influence our choices without us realizing
o Childhood trauma
o Freud originated this idea
His unconscious drives include the tendency of someone to date their
parental figure
Behavioral
o How we learn observable responses
o Physical responses
o Learn to fear things
o Human flourishing
Positive psychology
Curing disease/etc.
Cognitive
o How we process and retrieve info
Social-Cultural
o How behavior and thinking vary across cultures
o Families are similar
Chapter 1
Hindsight Bias
o If you give a result, it seems unsurprising
Prologue
Takes longer to be aware that youre perceiving something
o Wilhelm Wundt experiment
Structuralism/Introspection
o Makeup of the mind
o Wundt and Titchener
o Used introspection to reveal mind’s structure
o Looking inward is introspection
Report experience with senses
Did not work bc needed intelligence, ability to speak
Functionalism
o How we evolve
o James
o Evolved functions of thoughts and feelings
o Why do we smell/etc.
o Thought to be adaptive
Freudian Psychology
o Unconscious thought
o Emotional response to childhood
Behaviorism
o Examine stream of consciousness/emotion
o Watson and Skinner
Scientific study of observable behaviors
Humanism
o Rogers and Maslow
o Current environment influences people
o Potential to grow
Positive psychology
Look at people as a whole, not just those with mind disorders
The Cognitive Revolution
o How mind processes and retains info
o How to treat depression, etc.
o Cognitive psychology (mind science) with neuroscience
Biopsychosocial Approach
o Everything is linked
o Many influences lead to one event
o Biological influences
Genes
Predisposition
o Psychological influences
Learned things
, Environment
Fears
Emotional response
o Social-cultural influences
Presence of others
Expectations
Peers
Media
Neuroscience
o How the brain works
o Structure and function
Evolutionary
o Nature
o Change over time, not specific to one person’s environment
o How are humans alike
Behavior Genetics
o How we are different because genes/environments
o Environmental influence and genes
What triggers something
Psychodynamic
o Behavior based on unconscious drives
Some parts of our mind are inaccessible to us
Events from our life influence our choices without us realizing
o Childhood trauma
o Freud originated this idea
His unconscious drives include the tendency of someone to date their
parental figure
Behavioral
o How we learn observable responses
o Physical responses
o Learn to fear things
o Human flourishing
Positive psychology
Curing disease/etc.
Cognitive
o How we process and retrieve info
Social-Cultural
o How behavior and thinking vary across cultures
o Families are similar
Chapter 1
Hindsight Bias
o If you give a result, it seems unsurprising
