PSYC 11762 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Freudian Slip, Sigmund Freud, Psychodynamics

• School: Kent State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 11762
• Professor: Christopher Flessner

Document Summary

Behaviorist, humanistic perspective, focus: how healthy people strive to reach their full potential, behavior is explained as being motivated by satisfying needs (safety, hunger, thirst, etc. Seligman is a major advocate: should promote building positive qualities of people, history of psychology, history of psychology, history of psychology. We will study stage theorists of social (erickson), cognitive (piaget), and moral (kohlberg) development: contemporary psychology. Psychology"s three main level of analysis: psychology"s current perspectives, psychology"s current perspectives, psychology"s current perspectives. Identify and explain the perspective you chose and contrast it with at least two other psychological perspectives: thinking critically with psychological science. The need for psychological science: the limits of intuition and common sense, the scientific attitude, the scientific method. Hoping to satisfy curiosity, many people listen to talk-radio counselors and psychics to know about others and themselves: the need for psychological science.