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Introduction to Psychology: Its Evolution Yesterday and Today

Levels of Analysis
The brain

The person

The group

SCHOOLS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL THOUGHT


Name Structuralism Landmark Events Wundt founds first psychology laboratory, 1879. Key Ideas Use introspection to discover the elements of mental processes and rules for combining them. Study why thoughts, feelings, and behavior occur, how they are adaptive. Focus on overall patterns of thoughts or experience the whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Functionalism

James Principles of Psychology, published 1890. Werthemiers paper on perceived movement, 1912.

Gestalt Psychology

SCHOOLS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL THOUGHT


Name Landmark Events Key Ideas Conflicts among the conscious and the unconscious forces underlie many thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Behavior is the appropriate focus of psychology, and it can be understood by studying stimuli, responses, and the consequences of responses. Psychodynamic Theory Freud publishes The Ego and the Id, 1927.

Behaviorism

Watsons paper Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It, 1913; Skinners The Behavior of Organisms, 1938.

Humanistic Psychology Maslow publishes Nonscientific approach; Motivation and Personality, belief that people have 1954. positive values, free will, and deep inner creativity.

SCHOOLS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL THOUGHT

Name
Social Psychology

Landmark Events
Milgrams study on Obedience , 1963.

Key Ideas

The specifics of the situation that influences an individuals willingness to obey. Cognitive Psychology Neissers book Cognitive Mental processes are Psychology gives the like information school its name in, processing in a 1967. computer. Cognitive First issue of the The mind is what the Neuroscience Journal of Cognitive brain does. Neuroscience appears, 1989. Evolutionary Barkow, Cosmides, and Mental strategies and Psychology Tooby edit The Adapted goals are often inborn, Mind, 1992. the result of natural selection.

5 Core Areas

BIOLOGICAL:
COGNITIVE:

O'Dhaniel A. Mullette-Gillman

Nicholas Hon Hsueh Hsien Susheel Kaur

DEVELOPMENTAL: SOCIAL:

Susheel Kaur

ABNORMAL:

Ryan Hong

Why Study Psychology?

Why Study Psychology?


Psychologists, like all scientists, use the scientific method to construct theories that organize observations and imply testable hypotheses

Why Study Psychology?


Hindsight Bias
we tend to believe, after learning an outcome, that we would have foreseen it, the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon

Overconfidence
we tend to think we know more than we do

The Scientific Attitude


Critical Thinking
thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions

examines assumptions discerns hidden values evaluates evidence assesses conclusions

The Scientific Method

Theory an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes and predicts observations Hypothesis
a testable prediction, often implied by a theory

The Scientific Method

What Psychologists Do?

What Psychologists Do

Clinical psychology

Counseling psychology
Psychologist vs. Psychiatrist

What Psychologists Do

Academic Psychologists

Teach classes Conduct research

What Psychologists Do

Applied Psychologists

Solve problems in practical areas

Ethics: Doing It Right

Ethics in Research
Institutional Review Board (IRB)

Research with people

Research with animals

Ethics in Clinical Practice


Proper training and supervision Maintain privacy APA code of conduct

Ethics in Neuroscience
Neuroethics for psychological research
Giving a docility drug to prisoners? Brain scans as lie detectors? Brain scans for prediction?

Summary
Evolution of Psychology
Current Approaches Specialized Areas in Psychology Psychology and Wellness

In closing
CAs (20% + 30%) RP Final Exam Format (50%) Forum & Revision

In closing

All the best!

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