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a. Clinicali. Private practiceii. Academiciii. Offer a lot to medical community (hospitals)b. Developmentali. More in academicsii. Study childreniii. Focus on learningiv. Focus on agingc. Sociali. Study groups of peopled. Physiological (neuroscience)e. Quantitativei. Statisticsii. Mathematicsiii. Study quantum physics1. Implications of psychologyf. Cognitivei. Memoryii. Perceptioniii. Reasoningiv. Language processingg. Industrial/organizationali. Psychology in the workplaceii. Human resource issues-managementh. Educational/schooli. Learningii. Teachingi. Personalityi. Personality types and traitsj. Animalk. Evolutionaryi. Infer the why of behaviors we see1. “Why do children have a lengthy adulthood?”l. Communityi. Help communities understand why things are happening the way they arem. Healthi. Deals with people who have diseasesa. Wilhelm Wundti. Founded the first scientific laboratory in Leipzig (1879)1. Experimental psychologyii. Study of perception and mental processes1. Study conscious experience and mental states and how to decompose that experience into its basic partsiii. Introspection and decomposing conscious experience1. Having an experience and reporting out that experience2. That immediate conscious experiencea. How all those things add up: structuralism3. Quality, intensityiv. Additive decomposition1. Perception  response2. This or that situationa. Perception  decision  responsei. Insertion of a decision processii. Compare these two processes and figure out the decision timeb. Gestaltistsi. Wertheimer, Kohler1. Argued against the idea that experience could be decomposed2. There are no pieces, just whole experience3. Use illusionsa. Argue against additive decompositioni. B/c you’re having multiple perceptions of same image, you can’t follow that process since the elements are what the elements areii. Decomposition is settling on one perceptionc. Sigmund Freudi. Psychoanalysis1. Unconscious influences on behavior2. Emphasis on long-term effects of personal historya. Pleasure/sexb. Social conventioni. Parents are the instruments of culture on you1. They tell you what to do and channel all your drives3. Iceberg metaphora. Most of iceberg is underwaterb. Ego- conscious mediator between you and outside world but also you and other parts of youc. Superego- good angeli. Keep you in lineii. Strong controlling forced. Id- devil on other shoulderi. Energy source for whole system that provides the power for the drives to gain pleasure, get thingsii. Have to be capped b/c a lot of those impulses are unacceptable in society so that’s why it’s underwaterPSYC 1103 1st Edition Lecture 2 Outline of Current Lecture I. Is Psychology a Science?a. Definition of PsychologyII. Subfields of Psychology a. Clinicalb. Developmentalc. Sociald. Physiologicale. Quantitativef. Cognitiveg. Industrial/organizationalh. Educational/schooli. Personalityj. Animalk. Evolutionaryl. Communitym. healthIII. History and Methodsa. Wilhelm Wundtb. Gestaltistsc. Sigmund FreudCurrent LectureI. Is psychology a science?a. Processb. Measurement c. Theory d. Definitioni. Scientific study of behavior and mind ii. Behavior: any overtly observable action at any level of abstraction1. Walking, speech, IQ score, anxiety symptomsiii. Mind: any covert, unobservable phenomenon that relates the organism to the environment 1. Memory, perception, reasoning, fear II. Subfields of psychologya. Clinical i. Private practiceii. Academiciii. Offer a lot to medical community (hospitals)b. Developmental i. More in academicsii. Study children iii. Focus on learningiv. Focus on aging c. Social i. Study groups of people d. Physiological (neuroscience) e. Quantitativei. Statisticsii. Mathematicsiii. Study quantum physics 1. Implications of psychologyf. Cognitivei. Memoryii. Perception iii. Reasoning iv. Language processing g. Industrial/organizationali. Psychology in the workplace ii. Human resource issues-management h. Educational/school i. Learningii. Teaching i. Personalityi. Personality types and traitsj. Animal k. Evolutionaryi. Infer the why of behaviors we see1. “Why do children have a lengthy adulthood?” l. Communityi. Help communities understand why things are happening the way they are m. Health i. Deals with people who have diseases III. History and Methodsa. Wilhelm Wundti. Founded the first scientific laboratory in Leipzig (1879)1. Experimental psychologyii. Study of perception and mental processes 1. Study conscious experience and mental states and how to decompose that experience into its basic parts iii. Introspection and decomposing conscious experience1. Having an experience and reporting out that experience2. That immediate conscious experience a. How all those things add up: structuralism 3. Quality, intensity iv. Additive decomposition 1. Perception  response 2. This or that situationa. Perception  decision  response i. Insertion of a decision process ii. Compare these two processes and figure out the decision time b. Gestaltistsi. Wertheimer, Kohler1. Argued against the idea that experience could be decomposed 2. There are no pieces, just whole experience 3. Use illusions a. Argue against additive decomposition i. B/c you’re having multiple perceptions of same image, you can’t follow that process since the elements are what the elements are ii. Decomposition is settling on one perceptionc. Sigmund Freudi. Psychoanalysis 1. Unconscious influences on behavior 2. Emphasis on long-term effects of personal history a. Pleasure/sex b. Social convention i. Parents are the instruments of culture on you1. They tell you what to do and channelall your drives 3. Iceberg metaphora. Most of iceberg is underwater b. Ego- conscious mediator between you and outside world but also you and other parts of youc. Superego- good angel i. Keep you in lineii. Strong controlling force d. Id- devil on other shoulder i. Energy source for whole system that provides the power for the drives to gain pleasure, get thingsii. Have to be capped b/c a lot of those impulses are unacceptable in society so that’s why it’s


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