Psychology 101 Exam 1 Latest 2022 Already Passed Psychology The scientific investigation of mental processes and behavior
Where did psychology branch out from? Physiology and Philosophy
Structuralism Focused on the structure of consciousness and the mind (not identified with anymore)
2 Structura...
Psychology 101 Exam 1 Latest 2022 Already Passed Psychology ✔✔The scientific investigation of mental processes and behavior Where did psychology branch out from? ✔✔Physiology and Philosophy Structuralism ✔✔Focused on the structure of consciousness and the mind (not identified with anymore) 2 Structuralists ✔✔Wundt and Titchener Functionalism ✔✔Focused on the function of the mind in helping people adapt to their environment (not identified with anymore) 2 Functionalists ✔✔Darwin and James 3 Broad ways of understanding psychological phenomena ✔✔Theoretical Propositions, Shared Metaphors, Accept ed Methods of Observation Modern Perspectives ✔✔Psychodynamic, Behaviorist, Cognitive, Evolutionary Psychodynamic ✔✔started by Sigmund Freud; case studies, not easy to test or prove because of small sample size Behaviorist ✔✔Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner ; mental processes are byproducts of environmental events; experiment Behaviorist Metaphor ✔✔People are like machines Cognitive ✔✔Wundt; focuses on how people perceive, process and retrieve information (Perspective) Cognitive Metaphor ✔✔Brain like a computer Evolutionary ✔✔Darwin; behaviors have come about because they helped our ancestors survive Evolutionary Metaphor ✔✔runners in a race Biopsychology ✔✔Physical bases of psychological phenomena (sub -discipline) Developmental psychology ✔✔How thought, feeling, and behavior develops through life span Social Psychology ✔✔Influence of real or imagined others influence on the individual Industrial/Organizational Psychology ✔✔Human behavior within an organization as w ell as organizational problems (sub -discipline) Educational Psychology ✔✔Psychological processes in learning environments (sub -discipline) Health Psychology ✔✔Psychological factors involved in health and disease Clinical Psychology ✔✔Nature and treatmen t of psychological processes leading to emotional distress Cognitive Psychology ✔✔Nature of mental process such as thought, memory, language
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