PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychodynamics, Behaviorism, Attachment Theory
12 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Class 1 – Intro to Psychology
Jadzia Wray
What is Psychology?
- Psychology is the science of behavior and mental processes
- Goal:
o Describe
o Explain
o Predict
o Influence
- Includes:
o Biology – brain, hormones, sleep cycle
o Sensation and Perception – how info gets processed (how do we see what we see, feel
what we feel, fight or flight, etc)
o Social Psychology – (the bridge between bio and sensation and perception) how culture,
environment, how certain norms affect us, conformity
o Cognition - the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding
through thought, experience, and the senses.
o Learning/ Behaviorism – wired in a certain way, and the more we learn, the more we
strengthen the connections between neurons and grow to behave that way; learning
theorists believe we all come the exact same way and then we are taught to behave a
certain way
- Human development – there are certain things we should be doing at certain stages; language
develops a certain way and then it changes and becomes more complex
Psychodynamic Cognitive- Behavior
Scientific Method
- Question
- Hypothesis (what you think may happen),
- Design experiment (ask people questions),
- Results (look at results, have to look at correct statistical analysis to understand the results – have
this part before you get the data in so that you know how to understand the info)
- Conclusions (create an additional hypothesis or reject and revise the original hypothesis,
- Theory (come up with why you think things are the way that they are; and others read and test
their theories). Replication is important because that is how you catch things that may not have
been noticed in the original study.
- The scientific method is not always prioritized, and people often go with the gut feeling in making
a diagnosis
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