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psychology's four goals
- describe
- explain
- predict
- control
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Structuralism
focused on basic elements of the brain
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Functionalism
how the mind allows people to adapt, live, work, and play
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Gestalt psychology
- sum is greater than parts.
- learning, memory, thought processes, and problem solving
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Psychoanalysis
- Frued
- early childhood experiences
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Behaviourism
- must be directly seen and measured
- little albert
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psychodynamic perspective
non sexual version of psychoanalysis
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behavioral perspective
- behavioralism
- must be seen and mesured directly
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humanistic perspective
- freewill
- emphisize human potential
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cognitive perspective
memory, intellegence,preception, problem solving, and learning
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sociocultural perspective
relationship between social behaviour and culture
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biopsycological perspective
- associates human and animal activities to biological events in the body
- genetic influences, hormones, and nervous system activity
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evolutionary perspective
focus's on biological bases on universally share human characteristics
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psychiatrist
medical doctor focused on diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders
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psychoanalyst
Fruedian Psycologist or Psychiatrist
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psyciatric social worker
sosial worker with training on therapy that focuses on environmental conditions
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Psychologist
has a degree and specialized training in a area of psychology
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Scientific
method
- Perceiving the question
- Forming a hypothesis
- Testing the hypothesis
- Drawing conclusion
- Report, revise and replicate
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naturalistic observation
watchin in natural setting
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observer bias
tendency of observers to see what they expect to see
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labratory observation
observation in a controled environment
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case study
study one individual to great detail
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surveys
asking a series of questions related to the study
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correlation
- mesuring the relationship between variables
- 1 to -1
- 1 positivly related
- 0 not related
- -1 negativly related
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