Psych 1/8

01/8/15

5 goals of psychology

Observe

Predict

Explain

Describe

Control

History Of Psychology

Mind and Body Connected

The Hebrews

Aristotle

Augustine'

Mind and body are distinct

Socrates5

Plato

Descartes

Some ideas are inborn

Socrates

Plato

The mind is a blank slate

Aristotle

Locke

Wilhelm Wundt - Father of Psychology.

Structuralism- Broke down mental process into the most basic components of conscious experience. What did you see, hear, taste, smell, feel.

Functionalism- Focused less on the How, and focusing more on the Why. Emphasized the process of how thoughts formed, changed, and how they adapted. 

7 perspective 

Neuroscience Perspective- Focus on how the physical body and brain creates our emotions, memories and sensory experiences. 

Evolutionary- Darwinism, We behave the way we do because we inherited those behavior.

Psychodynamic- Sigmund Freud, our behavior comes from unconscious drives.

Behavioral- Focuses on our Observable behaviors. Only cares about the behaviors that impair our living and attempted to change them.

Cognitive- Focuses on how we think( or encode information)

Social Cultural - Focuses on how your culture affects your behavior.

Humanistic- Focuses on positive growth, attempts to eek self actualization