PSYC 107 1st Edition Lecture 2 Outline of Current LectureI. What is Psychology?II. Psychological Subfieldsa. Thirteen different typesIII. The spectrum of PsychologyIV. Individual PsychologyV. Schools of Thoughta. Structuralism, psychodynamic, functionalism, behaviorism, cognitive, social cultural and evolutionary. Current LectureI. 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 subfieldsa. 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. Clinicali. 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 Psychologya. 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 developedthe 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 Cultural1. Situational factors that affect thinking and behavior. 2. (Heider and
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