Psychology

totality of being

the study of

pshchology was considered to be the study of behavior

Freud-Changed to the study of behavior and mental processes

• anything an organism does
• Ex: talks, walking back and forth

• Internal subjective experience
• Ex: sensation, perceptions, dreams, thoughts, beliefs, & feelings

• 1. Get a better understanding of the other-think, feel, & act
• 2. Get a better understanding of ouselves-think, feel & act

• how we think, feel, and act
• If I understand me I can better understand you and vice versa

belkieved in innate ideas, suggests that the brain is the seat of mental process

oublished the "On the orgin of species by means of natural selection" Survival of the fittest

1st physchological labratory in Germany. If you wanted to be somebody in psychology you had to go there

USA -1st Usian because he came from the United States

1st woman to recieve PHD in Psychology from Cornell University

prolific writer. Wrote textbooks

father of modern psychology. Wrote "Interpretation of Dreams" an analysis of himself

Associative learning. Studied dogs

Clean cut. He was a behaviorist. Only behavior meant something

Mental process. How you see things. Just because you think it's so doesn't make it so. Perception may not be true.

biological-wired in or born with

born with nothing and everything is learned

• 1.Biological
• 2. Psychoanalytical
• 3.Behavioral
• 4. Humanism
• 5. Cognitive
• 6. Social Cultural

Darwin-how tings are set up inside of us. Born that way. NATURE

• Freud's statement. Unconscious drives that control us, rule our lives and cause us to do certain things.
• 2 Drives--Sex and Aggression
• BOTH NATURE AND NURTURE

• stimulus and response--Reaction not choice
• MAINLY NURTURE

• Choices and responsibilities-I make my choices and I am responsible for my actions.
• NURTURE

thinking-mental processes-thought, justification, perception, feeling

NURTURE

• People are different in different cultures
• NURTURE

• 1. Open minded skepticism-How you want your scientist to be. Yes they are skeptical but will still try it.
• 2. Scientific Humility-Scientists to tell the truth
• 3. Critical Thinking-evidence over anecdotal. Experiment over intuition. Discipline over lazy hunches

• 1. Theory-explanation organized and predicts behavior
• 2. Hypothesis-testable theory
• 3. Replication-repeating the same study using different subjects

• very popular
• time consuming
• individual subjects may no be representative of the whole

• looks at manyu subjects
• wording
• random sampling needed to be valid
• sometimes used to bias the listener to one way of thinking

• fairly popular
• use real life illustrationss
• largely emphirical
• dependant of the observer's personal experience
• means to live with or observe the subject in its natural habitat
• EX: Gorillas in the Mist-Jane Goodall

• Doesn't prove causation
• -Measures Relationships
• -Enables predicition
• -Positive or Negative

• Independent Variable-factors that will be treated
• Dependent Variable-outcome
• Control Group-will not recieve treatment or baseline group
• Experimental Group-Will recieve independent variable

branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social changes throughout the life span

Sensorymotor-crawling then try to make sense of it by putting it in their mouth

• Conception
• Joing of egg and sperm
• Pairing of chromosomes-DNA is connected
• Determination of sex
• xx=female
• xy=male

• Zygote-conception-2wks
• Intra uterine attachment occurs
• Embryo 2wks after fertilization -2 months
• During this time the organs have started to develop and begin to function
• Fetal 9wks to birth
• Organs, facial and body features grow and mature
• Pass 6 months survival is likely

potentially harmful agents that can pass through the placenta

Physical and cognitive abnomalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking. In severe cases, symptoms include facial misproportions

optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development

the process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life

• can be used as a corrective action. Emotion we can learn from
• EX: When you hurt someone it causes you hurt

I'm so bad that I couldn't be alive. I have no redeming qualities. It is beaten into you. You get smaller and smaller. Addicts live in shame.

be fine with who you are in you won skin