PSYCH 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Operational Definition, Psychological Science, Operationalization

• School: U of M
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 111
• Professor: Marion Perlmutter

Document Summary

How has dominance of different perspectives changed over time. Psychoanalytic has gradually gone down (has never had many publications) Behavioral approach: grew to be very dominant in the early 60"s to 70"s. Cognitive psych has taken off (one of the most viable fields today) Neuroscience- picking up (cognitive and neuroscience overlap) Methods of psychological science (things to keep in mind during readings) Public (cumulative- is corrected and builds upon itself) Science is empirical verification- has data to back up what we think. Intuition: beliefs without empirical support- we haven"t analyzed it and is idiosyncratic about ourselves. Common sense: commonly believed assumptions (different from intuition because common sense is part of a series of beliefs we all have) Describe- systematically, carefully describe specific things about it. Predict- what we learn to help us in the future. Explain>control- understand things and to control things (only if we really understand can we control) What type of study addresses each goal of psychology.