PSYC-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Excessive Daytime Sleepiness, Clinical Psychology, Family Therapy
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Description: observing something and noting everything about it (who, what where, when) Explanation: trying to understand why the phenomenon happens. Prediction: trying to determine what will happen in the future. Control: seeking to change a phenomenon: fill in the following chart regarding the 7 major theoretical perspectives of contemporary psychology. How bodily events affect behavior, feelings, and thoughts. How environment and experience affect a person"s actions. Someone using the psychoanalytic perspective might view aggression as the result of childhood experiences and unconscious urges. Another person might take a behavioral perspective and consider how the behavior was shaped by association, reinforcement, and punishment. A child who cries and is rewarded by getting his mother"s attention will cry again in the future. A college student makes little effort to achieve good. Focuses on what goes on in people"s heads grades in college courses. The person may believe that he or she does not have the ability to achieve.
