PSYC 2000 Chapter : Psyc 2000
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Psychoanalysis: feelings come from a hidden place in your mind called the unconscious, defense mechanism help us protect ourselves from our real feelings, behaviorism: emphasized the study of the observable behavior only (john. Watson & b. f. skinner: skinner is well known for introducing the concept of reinforcement to behaviorism, humanistic: assumes that people have positive values, free will, and deep inner creativity. Reaction against the pessimism of freud. (carl rodgers & Abraham maslow: cognitive revolution: led to the emergence of cognitive psyc. The study of mental processes which attempts to characterize how info is stored and operated on internally: modern views: important emphasis on the brain, modern psychologist are eclectic. Believe behaviors have multiple causes: psychology as a science: attempts to describe, predict, and explain thought and behavior. ), disseminate the results, theory: iv (independent variable) intentionally varied by experimenter, dv (dependent variable) measured as the iv is changed.
