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Psychology

Psychology. The science of behavior and mental processes. Psychology as Science. Empirical Findings are based on experimentation, observation and measurement. Psychology’s Goals. Describe What has occurred? Explain Why did it occur? Predict What will cause it to occur again? Change

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Psychology

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  1. Psychology The science of behavior and mental processes.

  2. Psychology as Science • Empirical • Findings are based on experimentation, observation and measurement

  3. Psychology’s Goals • Describe • What has occurred? • Explain • Why did it occur? • Predict • What will cause it to occur again? • Change • How do we make something different occur?

  4. Psychology’s Roots • Pre-scientific Psychology • Many of the first psychologists were philosophers and religious leaders. • Aristotle • Hippocrates

  5. Psychology’s Roots • Wilhelm Wundt opened the first psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig (1879)

  6. Psychology’s Roots • Edward Titchner (Late 1800s) • Structuralism: used introspection (looking in) to explore the human mind

  7. Psychology’s Roots • William James (Around 1900) • Functionalism focused on how behavioral processes function and enable an organism to adapt, survive, and flourish • Principles of Psychology text

  8. Psychology’s Roots • Mary Whiton Calkins • Ivan Pavlov • Sigmund Freud • John B. Watson (1913) • B.F. Skinner (1938) Etc., etc.

  9. Contemporary Psychology

  10. Biopsychosocial Approach

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