Psychology

Lesson Objectives

To understand the basic concept of what is Psychology

To understand there are different approaches within psychology

Recognise one research method in psychology

Understand and relate the topic you have investigated in other settings in the wider context of applied psychology

What is psychology ?

Sights Smells Sounds Tastes

Touch

Psychology is…….

Do you remember the different approaches in psychology?

Behavioral

Psychodynamic Humanistic

Evolutionary Cognitive

Biological

What do psychologists do?

Psychologists formulate theories and perform experiments to test them out.

Do you want to do one?

We are now going to perform another experiment which is from the field of Cognitive Psychology

Please get a paper and a pen

Write down the time in seconds that it takes you to notice any and or all the differences in the images.

Good luck

http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/se367/10/presentation_local/Change%20Blindness.html

What time in seconds did it take you?

Did you see any changes ?

Simons, D.J., & Rensink R.A. (2005). Change blindness: Past, present and future: TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences Vol.9 No.1 January 2005.

Change Blindness………

• Cognitive Psychologists theorised that the human brain processes very little of what it sees.

• So they set out ways to collect empirical evidence to test the theory.

• We have just done few of the experiments which were devised.

What does the experiment show us????

Why does this matter ?

Discuss for few minutes in your groups

where the phenomenon of change blindness would have practical implications

Eye Witness testimonies

Distractions while driving

Military command

airline controllers

To understand the basic concept of what is Psychology

To understand there are different approaches within psychology

Recognise one research method in psychology

Understand and relate the topic you have investigated of change blindness in other settings thus becoming applied psychology

Recap