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What is Psychology?
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Overview
chapter 1
  • The science of psychology
  • What psychologists do

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The Science of Psychology
chapter 1
  • The discipline concerned with?
  • Symbolized with a

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Psychology, pseudoscience, and common sense
chapter 1
  • Psuedoscoence-
  • Empirical-
  • Why is it not just common sense?

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The Birth of Modern Psychology
  • Wilhelm Wundt-

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Psychologys past
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  • Two early psychologies
  • 1)
  • 2)

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Functionalism
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  • Early approach that emphasized the function or
    purpose of behavior and consciousness
  • Interested in how and why something happens
  • Functionalists broadened field of psychology to
    include the study of children, animals, religious
    experiences, and stream of consciousness

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Psychoanalysis
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  • A theory of personality and a method of
    psychotherapy, originally formulated by?
  • Emphasizes? 2 Things
  • 1)
  • 2)

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Your turn
  • Who setup the first psychological lab in Leipzig,
    Germany in 1879?
  • William James
  • Charles Darwin
  • Wilhelm Wundt
  • Sigmund Freud

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Your turn
chapter 1
  • The first field of psychology to ask why people
    have consciousness was
  • 1. Behaviorism
  • 2. Phrenology
  • 3. Psychoanalysis
  • 4. Functionalism

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Major Psychological perspectives
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  • Biological perspective
  • Learning perspective
  • Cognitive perspective
  • Sociocultural perspective
  • Psychodynamic perspective

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The biological perspective
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  • Psychological approach that focuses on?
  • This perspective involves
  • Hormones
  • Brain chemistry
  • Heredity
  • Evolutionary influences

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The learning perspective
  • Psychological approach that emphasizes?
  • This perspective involves
  • Behaviorism-
  • Social-cognitive learning-

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The cognitive perspective
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  • Psychological approach that emphasizes?

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The sociocultural perspective
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  • Psychological approach that emphasizes?
  • This perspective involves
  • Social psychology or the study of rules, roles,
    groups, and relationships
  • Cultural psychology or the study of
    culturalnorms, values, and expectations
  • The Fish Analogy?

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The psychodynamic perspective
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  • Psychological approach that emphasizes?
  • This perspective involves
  • Unconscious thoughts, desires, conflicts
  • Why is it the thumb on the hand of psychology?

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Humanist psychology
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  • Psychological approach that emphasizes?
  • rather than the scientific understanding of
    behavior
  • This approach
  • Rejected behaviorism and psychoanalysis
  • Emphasized creativity and achieving potential

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Your turn
chapter 1
  • The psychological perspective that emphasizes
    mental processes in perception, memory, language,
    problem solving, and other areas of behavior
  • 1. Biological perspective
  • 2. Learning perspective
  • 3. Cognitive perspective
  • 4. Psychodynamic perspective
  • 5. Sociocultural perspective

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Your turn
chapter 1
  • The psychological perspective that emphasizes
    social and cultural influences on behavior.
  • 1. Biological perspective
  • 2. Learning perspective
  • 3. Cognitive perspective
  • 4. Psychodynamic perspective
  • 5. Sociocultural perspective

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Your turn
chapter 1
  • The psychological perspective that emphasizes
    bodily events such as hormones, genes, and
    evolution affect behavior, feelings, and
    thoughts.
  • 1. Biological perspective
  • 2. Learning perspective
  • 3. Cognitive perspective
  • 4. Psychodynamic perspective
  • 5. Sociocultural perspective

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Your turn
chapter 1
  • The psychological perspective that emphasizes the
    unconscious, psychological causes of peoples
    behavior is
  • 1. Biological perspective
  • 2. Learning perspective
  • 3. Cognitive perspective
  • 4. Psychodynamic perspective
  • 5. Sociocultural perspective

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  • What Psychologist Do

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Psychological research
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  • Research in areas of basic or applied psychology
  • Basic-
  • Applied-

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Psychological practice
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  • Practitioners account for?
  • Counseling psychologists help people deal with?
  • School psychologists work with?
  • Clinical psychologists?
  • Education needed?

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Psychological practice
  • Psychotherapist?
  • Degree
  • Psychoanalyst?
  • Degree

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Psychological practice
  • Psychiatrist?
  • Degree
  • Similarity between psychologist/psychiatrist?
  • Difference?

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Psychologists in other settings
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  • Sports
  • Consumer issues
  • Advertising
  • Organizational problems
  • Environmental issues
  • Public policy
  • Opinion polls
  • Military training
  • Animal behavior
  • Legal issues

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Your turn
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  • What type of psychology seek knowledge for its
    own sake rather than for its practical
    application
  • 1. Clinical Psychologists
  • 2. Psychoanalysts
  • 3. Basic Psychology
  • 4. Applied Psychology
  • 5. Psychiatrist

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Your turn
chapter 1
  • What type of psychology study issues that have
    direct practical significance
  • 1. Clinical Psychologists
  • 2. Psychoanalysts
  • 3. Basic Psychology
  • 4. Applied Psychology
  • 5. Psychiatrist

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Your turn
chapter 1
  • These practitioners who diagnose, treat, and
    study mental or emotional problems
  • 1. Clinical Psychologists
  • 2. Psychoanalysts
  • 3. Basic Psychology
  • 4. Applied Psychology
  • 5. Psychiatrist
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