PSY 110- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 30 pages long!)

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 110
• Professor: Roderick Gillis

Document Summary

Lecture # 1 (origins and methods: definition of psychology. Six approaches: psychoanalytic (freud, behavioral (watson, skinner, gestalt (kohler, wertheimer, humanistic (maslow, rogers, cognitive (thinking, memory, language, problem solving, creativity, learning, biological/medical/physiological. Community assists people receiving housing or food, medical resources. School assists in dealing with behavioral issues. Forensic psychiatric evaluations, jury selection, police integration. Sports assists athletes do better in their sports. Industrial /organizational working with industry, improving moral, productivity. Health psychologists that deal with the health care center. Engineering study design of equipment, cars, airplanes. What makes a theory good is that it"s strongly supported by evidence. Concluded that the world was much older than what biblical settings had told him. Mountains and different sediments demonstrated that the world was much older. Nature selects the fittest characteristics in a species. The fittest organism will pass up its genetic makeup to greater amounts of the same species. Nature selects upon the different variations in the gene pool.