Psyc 2301

The scientific study of behavior and mental process

A formulation of relationships underlying ovserved events.

Research conducted without concern for immediate applications.

Research conducted in an effort to find solutions to particular problems.

They study the ways in which people and the environment influence one another.

Specialize in basic processes such as the nervous system, sensation and perception, learning and memory, thought, motivation, and emotion.

Focus on the relationships between people and work.

They examine the wats in which behavior and attitudes are related to physical health.

They help improve their proformance in sports.

They apply principles of psychology to the criminal justice system.

• It emphasizes the importance of unconscious movties and conflicts as determinants of human behavior.
• FRUED**

• It proposes that the motion of underlying forces of personality determines our thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
• FREUD***

the attempt to break conscious experience down into objective sensations. It argues that the mind consists of three basic elements- sensation, feeling, and images- that combine to form experience.

Functionalism focused on behavior in addition to the mind or consciousness. It emphasizes the uses or functions of the mind rather than the elements of experience.

focused on learning ovservable behavior. It is abservable behavior and studies relationships between stimuli and responses.

A stimulus that follows a response and increases the frequency of the response.