Introduction to Psychology

1. Introduction to Psychology

2. Defining Psychology • Scientific • Behavior and mental processes • Humans and animals

3. The History of Psychology

4. Prescientific Psychology • Ancient thought • René Descartes • More info on Descartes • John Locke • More Info on Locke

5. Foundational Scientific Psychologists • Wilhelm Wundt • Introspection and first laboratory • Edward Titchener • structuralism • Herman Ebbinghaus • Memory and forgetting • William James • functionalism • Max Wertheimer • Gestalt school

6. Early People and Events: Evidence of Inclusiveness • G. Stanley Hall - 1883 • Margaret Floy Washburn - 1894 • Mary Whiton Calkins - 1905 • Francis Cecil Sumner - 1920 • Ivan Pavlov – 1880’s through 1905 • American Psychological Association - 1892

7. Practice and Perspectives • Classifications • Practitioners • Academics • Researchers

8. Practice and Perspectives • Subfields • Clinical/counseling • School/educational • Industrial/organizational • Experimental/Psychometric • Social • Developmental

9. Practice and Perspectives • Contemporary Perspectives • Psychoanalysis • Sigmund Freud (1900 through 1939) • Focuses on unconscious motivation of behavior based on childhood experiences • Followed by neofreudians

10. Practice and Perspectives • Contemporary Perspectives • Behavioral/Learning • John B. Watson (1913 or so) • Environmental determinants of behavior • Observable behaviors only • B.F. Skinner follows along

11. Practice and Perspectives • Contemporary Perspectives • Cognitive • Focuses on internal thought explanations of behavior • Jean Piaget • Noam Chomsky • Herbert Simon

12. Practice and Perspectives • Contemporary Perspectives • Humanistic • Emerged in contrast to psychoanalysis and behaviorism • Focuses on present tense experience • The most positive of perspectives • Maslow and Rogers

13. Current Perspectives Summarized