PSYC 2000 Chapter : Psychology Ch 1
Document Summary
What is psychology: scientific study of behavior and mental processes, behavior, mental processes. Goals of psychology: description, explanation, prediction, control. Who is a psychologist: psychologist, phd or psyd, cant prescribe meds, psychiatrist, goes to med school. Other viewpoints: psychoanalysis, sigmand freud, behaviorism, everything is about a stimulus and a response, john b watson, focus on observable behavior rather than what goes on inside the mind. Modern perspectives: psychodynamic, unconscious mind and its influence on conscious behavior, behavioral. People still study rats: humanistic, free will and strive for self-actualization, cognitive, memory, perception, thought processes, learning, etc, sociocultural, focuses on the relationship between social behavior and culture, biopsychological. Attributes human and animal behavior to biological events occurring in the body, such as genetic influences, hormones, and the activity of the nervous system. Focuses on the biological bases of universal mental characteristics that all humans have.
