Thursday, January 29, 2015

Psychology notes


  • Psychology: the science of behavior and mental processes.
  • Goals of Psychology:
    • Observe
    • Predict
    • Explain
    • Describe
    • Control
  • Wilhelm Wundt: Father of psychology
  • Structuralism
    • Broke down mental processes into the most basic components (structures) of conscious experience.
    • What did you see? Hear? Taste? Smell? Feel? (Introspection)
  • Functionalism
    • Focused less on the how of sensation and perception, but rather on the why.
  • Psychology Perspective
    • Neuroscience Perspective: focus on how the physical body and brain creates out emotions, memories, and sensory experience.
    • Evolutionary Perspective: we behave the way we do because we inherited those behavior.
    • Psychodynamic Perspective: out behavior comes from unconscious drives.
    • Behavioral Perspective: only cares about the behaviors that impair out living and attempts to change them.
    • Cognitive Perspective: focuses on positive growth. Attempt to seek self-actualization.
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  1. UnknownJanuary 30, 2015 at 7:58 AM

    I like how you talked about the two schools.of psychology, which is functionalism and structuralism, but to add more info about functionalism, it also emphasizes the process of how thoughts formed, changed, and how they adapted.



























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