Psych Mod-1

science of behavior and mental process

• Mental processes to adapt
• survive &
• flourish

• introspection
• define minds makeup

• the body and brain emotions
• memories  
• sensory experiences

ie. how do pain messages travel from the hand to the brain

• behavior, thinking vary across situations
• and cultures

• ie. how we are alike as members of human family
• how do we differ as products of environment

• natural selection of traits has
• promoted the survival of genes 

ie. how does evolution influence behavior tendencies

• genes and environment influences
• individual differences

ie. extent are psychological traits; intelligence, personality, sexual orientation and vulnerability to depression products of genes

• perceive, process,
• remember information, 
• encode, store, receive information

ie. how we use info in remembering, reasoning, problem solving

• behavior from unconscious drives
• and conflicts

·ie. how can ones personality, traits, disorders be explained by unfulfilled wishes and child hood trauma

learn observable responses

ie. how do we learn to fear particular objects and situations?

• Life changes 
• education 
• cope with challenges
• crises

i.e. academic,vocational, marital issues

• studies, assesses, treats people
• studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders.
• usually doesn't provide medical therapy

psychological disorders;

• physicians sometimes provide drugs treatments
• psychological therapy 

• explores “positive emotions, positive character traits, and enabling institutions.”
• human functioning, with the goals of discovering and promoting strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities to thrive.

• Counseling Psychologists
• Clinical Psychologists
• Psychiatrists 
• Positive Psychology

• Biological Influences
• Psychological Influences
• Social-Cultural Influences

• Survey
• Questions
• Read
• Retrieve2
• Review

• SQ3R
• Test Effect

• we are born without innate ideas
• knowledge is instead determined
• only by experience derived from sense perception

• Nature refers go our biological Influence
• Nurture refers to our environmental Influence

• enhanced member that results from repeated retrival
• as in self testing
• rather than just reading information