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Unit 1: Psychology’s History and Approaches. What is Psychology?. The systematic and scientific study of human behavior and mental processes. What are the Goals of Psychology?. Control. Prediction. Explanation. Description. Psychology’s Roots Prescientific Psychology. Ancient Greeks - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Unit 1:Psychology’s History and

Approaches

What is Psychology?

The systematic and scientific study of human behavior and mental processes

PredictionControl

Description Explanation

What are the Goals of Psychology?

Psychology’s RootsPrescientific Psychology

• Ancient Greeks–Socrates–Plato–Aristotle

Psychology’s RootsPrescientific Psychology

• Rene Descartes• Francis Bacon• John Locke

–Tabula Rasa (blank slate)

• EmpiricismScience should rely on observation and experimentation

Psychology’s RootsPsychological Science is Born

• Wilhelm Wundt (1879)–University of Leipzig–Reaction time experiment

Psychology’s RootsThinking About the Mind’s Structure

• Edward Titchener– Structuralism

• Physicists & chemists broke matter down into structures, why not the mind?

• Introspection reveals the structure of the mind

• “Tell me about things that are yellow”

Psychology’s RootsThinking About the Mind’s Function

• William James–Influenced by Darwin & evolutionary

theory– Functionalism

How mental and behavioral processes function

• Experimental psychology

Psychological Science Develops

• Sigmund Freud

Psychological Science Develops

• Behaviorism–John B. Watson –B.F. Skinner–“study of observable behavior”

Psychological Science Develops

• Humanistic psychology–Carl Rogers–Abraham Maslow

• Cognitive Neuroscience

Psychological Science Develops

• Psychology–Science–Behavior–Mental processes

Contemporary Psychology

Psychology’s Biggest Question

• Nature – Nurture Issue–Biology versus experience–History

• Greeks• John Locke v. Rene Descartes• Charles Darwin

–Natural selection

Psychology’s Three Main Levels of Analysis

• Levels of Analysis–Biological–Psychological–Social-cultural

• Biopsychosocial Approach

Psychology’s Three Main Levels of Analysis

Psychology’s Three Main Levels of Analysis

Psychology’s Three Main Levels of Analysis

Psychology’s Three Main Levels of Analysis

Psychological Approaches/Perspectives

• Biological psychology• Evolutionary psychology• Psychodynamic psychology• Behavioral psychology• Cognitive psychology• Humanistic psychology• Social-cultural psychology

Psychological Approaches/Perspectives

Psychological Approaches/Perspectives

Psychological Approaches/Perspectives

Psychological Approaches/Perspectives

Psychological Approaches/Perspectives

Psychological Approaches/Perspectives

Psychological Approaches/Perspectives

Psychological Approaches/Perspectives

Psychological Approaches/Perspectives