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Chapter one

Chapter one. The Field of Psychology. Defining Psychology. Psychologists work in just about every setting you can imagine. About 1/3 help people with personal problems. Psychology is the scientific study of human and animal behavior.

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Chapter one

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  1. Chapter one The Field of Psychology

  2. Defining Psychology • Psychologists work in just about every setting you can imagine. • About 1/3 help people with personal problems. • Psychology is the scientific study of human and animal behavior. • These behaviors include the blink of an eye, sweating, thinking, attitudes, thoughts, physical and emotional changes…… • A theory is a general framework or idea about the nature of something.

  3. Two Basic Types of Psychologists • Research Psychologists – study the origin, cause and results of certain behavior • (do research) • Applied Psychologists – make direct use of the findings of research psychologists; deal directly with clients • (apply the research)

  4. History of Psychology

  5. Comprehension Check 1 • Whose work inspired scientists to study animals in an attempt to understand human beings better? • Who started the first laboratory for studying humans and is called the “father of psychology”? • Who published a very important and widely used textbook on psychology and was interested in how humans adapt to their environment? • Who wrote a book on child rearing to teach parents how to apply scientific learning principles in bringing up their children?

  6. Comprehension Check 1 Answers • Charles Darwin • Wilhelm Wundt • Sigmund Freud • William James • John B. Watson

  7. Present –Day Psychology

  8. Present-Day Psychology

  9. Present-Day Psychology • Six approaches are used today. • Most psychologists lean toward one approach but borrow here and there from other theories. • This individual, combined approach is called electicism(eclectic approach).

  10. Comprehension Check 2 • Which approach in psychology emphasizes people’s potential? • Which analyzes internal sentences, thoughts? • Which focuses on learning? • Which analyzes our chemical make-up? • Which studies one’s ethnic background? • Which emphasizes sexual desires?

  11. Comprehension Check 2 Answers • Humanism • Cognitive • Behaviorism • Neurobiological • Sociocultural • Psychoanalysis

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