PSYC 2000 Chapter : Ch 1
Document Summary
Psych scientific study of behavior + mental process: goals, description, explanation, prediction, control. Functionalism: study how mind functions i. e. how allows us to, williams. Psychoanalysis: frued, neurologist, there was a significant road, people that followed him were normally of the younger crowd, when he saw his patients he would normally do talk therapy which is what therapy is today. Behaviorism: the only thing you can objectively measure is behavior, pavlov, dog experiment with bell and food, classical conditioning, watson, behavior is learning, experiment with the baby and the mouse. Free peanut butter and grape sandwiches: acronym to remember, structuralism, functionalism, psychoanalysis, behaviorism, gestalt psych, know which important person did what and which they are under. Behavioral perspective: how do things in your environment shape you, ex: how things in environment can trigger anger, skinner, operant conditioning, reinforcement affect behavior. Humanistic perspective: third force, how other things shape your behavior, abraham maslow and carl rogers, aimed at self-understanding and self-improvement.
