PSCHOLOGY

suggested that animals including humans have envolved and changed and inspired scientist to study animals in an attempt to better understand humans

• started the first laboratory for studying human in 1879
• Introspection: looking into yourself and telling what is there

Introspection is used today to get info about complex feelings

He discovered one of the first comprehensive theories of personality

• Sigmund Freud,
• ID: unconscious and includes the instinctive and primitive behaviors 
• EGO: responsible for dealing with reality 
• Supergo: our sense of right or wrong

• founder of american psychology 
• wrote a widely used textbook on psychology

william james

• most famous  humanists 
• saw individuals as worthwhile creatures with will and choices

potential to become something great

• one of the first behaviorist 
• wrote a book on child rearing

goal was to teach parents how to apply scientific learning principles in bringing up child

John. B. Watson

• behaviorist 
• focused on what could be seen and discredited cognitive and psychoanalytic as moving away from science

B.F.  Skinner

• viewing behavior as the result of nervous system function and biology
• bio study physical processes that take place when you panic and when you relax pychalitist

understanding biological aspects of behavior can help in development treatments for some disorders

it does little to explain social influence on behavior

• a system of viewing the individual as the product of unconscious forces 
• P.A. try to understand what kinds of perceptions thinking and memory go below our level of awareness and without our control

provides a framework for analyzing though processes below consciousness

focuses on how people are only products of mostly negative unconscious impulses 

viewing behavior as the product of learning and association 

what events in our past have shaped who we are today 

can help parents teach children appropriate behavior 

it takes away our "free will"

emphasis how human use mental processes to handle problems or develop certain personality characteristics 

that if we replace internal sentences with useful ones it can change your thinking process

it analyzes how thoughts affect behavior most popularly 

downplays the role of emotions 

behavior viewed  as strongly influenced by the rules and expectations of specific social groups or cultures 

study how cultures affect performance on test, education,crime, and emotion 

helps psychologists to counsel people from different cultures and to understand social influences on behavior