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Unit 1: Psychology’s History and Approaches

Unit 1: Psychology’s History and Approaches. What is Psychology?. The systematic and scientific study of human behavior and mental processes. What are the Goals of Psychology?. Control. Prediction. Explanation. Description. Psychology’s Roots Prescientific Psychology. Ancient Greeks

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Unit 1: Psychology’s History and Approaches

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  1. Unit 1:Psychology’s History and Approaches

  2. What is Psychology? The systematic and scientific study of human behavior and mental processes

  3. What are the Goals of Psychology? Control Prediction Explanation Description

  4. Psychology’s RootsPrescientific Psychology • Ancient Greeks • Socrates • Plato • Aristotle

  5. Psychology’s RootsPrescientific Psychology • Rene Descartes • Francis Bacon • John Locke • Tabula Rasa (blank slate) • Empiricism Science should rely on observation and experimentation

  6. Psychology’s RootsPsychological Science is Born • Wilhelm Wundt (1879) • University of Leipzig • Reaction time experiment

  7. Psychology’s RootsThinking About the Mind’s Structure • Edward Titchener • Structuralism • Physicists & chemists broke matter down into structures, why not the mind? • Introspection reveals the structure of the mind • “Tell me about things that are yellow”

  8. Psychology’s RootsThinking About the Mind’s Function • William James • Influenced by Darwin & evolutionary theory • Functionalism How mental and behavioral processes function • Experimental psychology

  9. Psychological Science Develops • Sigmund Freud

  10. Psychological Science Develops • Behaviorism • John B. Watson • B.F. Skinner • “study of observable behavior”

  11. Psychological Science Develops • Humanistic psychology • Carl Rogers • Abraham Maslow • Cognitive Neuroscience

  12. Psychological Science Develops • Psychology • Science • Behavior • Mental processes

  13. Contemporary Psychology

  14. Psychology’s Biggest Question • Nature – Nurture Issue • Biology versus experience • History • Greeks • John Locke v. Rene Descartes • Charles Darwin • Natural selection

  15. Psychology’s Three Main Levels of Analysis • Levels of Analysis • Biological • Psychological • Social-cultural • Biopsychosocial Approach

  16. Psychology’s Three Main Levels of Analysis

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  19. Psychology’s Three Main Levels of Analysis

  20. Psychological Approaches/Perspectives • Biological psychology • Evolutionary psychology • Psychodynamic psychology • Behavioral psychology • Cognitive psychology • Humanistic psychology • Social-cultural psychology

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