ES101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Reaction Formation, Tantrum, Belongingness
17 Jul 2014
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Basic research: involves seeking new knowledge and to exploring and advancing scientific understanding. Applied research: conducted specifically for the purpose of solving practical problems and improving peoples quality of life. Clinical psychologists: responsible for the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of serious psychological disorders. School/educational psychologists: assess matters related to academic, social, linguistic or vocational problems. Belief that all experience could be reduced to basic elements. Goal: define/explain the structure of conscious experience. Perception of visual stimuli, touch and hearing. Belief that all experience could be reduced to basic elemeents. Problem: lots of criticism, not objective: functionalism. Focus not on the structure of consciousness but with how mental processes function. How do we use mental processes to adapt and survive. The scope of psychology increases with functionalism. Includes behaviour (as well as mental processes) These groups excluded because they couldn"t be trained to do introspection. Influence by darwin (on the origin of species by natural selection) and galton (genetic.
