PSYC 107 1st Edition Lecture 2 Outline of Current Lecture I What is Psychology II Psychological Subfields a Thirteen different types III The spectrum of Psychology IV Individual Psychology V Schools of Thought a Structuralism psychodynamic functionalism behaviorism cognitive social cultural and evolutionary Current Lecture I What is Psychology a It is the scientific study of the behavior and mental processes with the goal of applying the resulting knowledge in the service of human welfare II Psychological subfields a Cognitive i Study of how the brain thinks remembers perceives and senses b Engineering i How humans interact with stuff human factors c Biological i Hormones and biological processes d Social i Study of how people are influenced by groups and others How relationships develop and out attitude about things outside of ourselves e Personality i Things that make you you and also things that make you similar to other people f Industrial organizational i Study of people at work and the selection promotion process How people assess and hire mistreatment at work and why people quit g Developmental i How people grow and change over time relatively permanent changes h Community i How to develop small groups of people to prevent mental health problems i Clinical i Programs at universities that help to solve problems for people j Counseling i Work in school settings based from the college of education k Educational i How do we design classrooms tests and things that are conducive to the learning environment l Sport i Work with others athletes and teams team bonding motivation m Forensic i FBI LAPD help detect patterns of criminology think tanks and universities III Spectrum of Psychology Broadest to narrowest a Broadest Cultural Social Individual Biological Narrowest IV Individual differences explain why people are more scared sad or happy than someone else a For example some people fall right asleep on airplanes while others are nervous the entire time V Schools of Psychology a School of thought structures of psychology i Structuralism 1 Periodic table for our minds and thoughts 2 Structures of our mental experience 3 Wundt and Titchener ii Psychodynamic 1 Unconscious experiences influence our conscious decisions and experiences 2 Freud iii Functionalism 1 Function of thought that adapts people to their own world 2 Attempts to understand why animals and humans have developed the particular psychological aspects that they currently possess 3 James iv Behaviorism 1 Not possible to objectively study the mind and therefore study should be devoted to the study of behavior itself 2 All that matters is people s behavior and why they do what they do how people think matters 3 Watson and Skinner v Cognitive 1 The study of mental processes including perception thinking memory and judgments 2 Ebbinghaus and Piaget vi Social Cultural 1 Situational factors that affect thinking and behavior 2 Heider and Heistinger
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