Psychology 2301 - Study Guide (ch1) - Professor Ray Saenz

Define Psychology Functionalism B. F. Skinner
Origins in Philosophy - Introspection William James (1875) Mind irrelevant
Fields of Psychology Principles of Psychology (1890) Stimulus-Response psychology (1938) - no thought
American Psychological Association Applied to everyday (real) life - function in environment Reinforcement - reward desired behavior
53 divisions (www.apa.org/about/division.html) Consciousness- continuous stream, adaptive Operant (Instrumental) Conditioning
Developmental No "simple elements" Environmental bias
Physiological Mental associations-previous experience Dominated psychology into the 1960s
Experimental Psychodynamic Theory Gestaltism (whole/form)
Personality Sigmund Freud (1860) Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Kohler, Kurt Koffka
Clinical and Counseling Physician Tricks in mental perception
Social University of Vienna- neurological basis of behavior Study of patterns, figure/ground, form completion
Industrial/Organizational Hypnosis - Charcot, Paris Humanism
New specialties-rehab, sprts, forensic, envi, comm., peace Free Will - not exist, an illusion Abraham Maslow
Structuralism Unconscious - Primitive sexual & aggr. , forbidden desires Studied with Wertheimer
Wilhelm Wundt Repression - Defense mechanisms Human potential, love, belonging, self esteem, self expression, peak experiences
First lab- measurement and experimentation Expressed in disguised/altered form Cognitivism
1879 Psychoanalysis - uncover, free association Study how process information, stimuli
University of Leipzig Behaviorism Brain imaging - neuro basis of cognition
"Selective attention" John B. Watson (died 1957) Evolutionism
Voluntarism Mental life superstition - not exist Hardwired to think and act certain ways
G. Stanley Hall Psychology As A Behaviorist Views It (1913) Positivism
Studied with Wundt What can observe and measure only Attention to "wellness"
First American psychology lab-1883 Ivan Pavlov Research Methods
Johns Hopkins University Classical Conditioning Eliminate bias - gender, cultural, ethnic, racial, observer, experimenter
J. Mck. Cattell Applied to humans by Watson Scientific Method - describe, understand, predict, control
Studied with Wundt Dogs salivated to sound- conditioned Theory - hypothesis
"Professor of Psychology"-1888 Tabula Rasa - John Locke, philosopher Naturalistic Observation - observe in natural environment
University of Pennsylvania Little Albert (Watson/Rayner 1920)- trained to fear rat Case Studies - usually study of one case
Edward Titchener Generalization - fear of all furry objects Surveys - Predetermined, objective questions
Studied with Wundt Resigned Hopkins 1920 - Thompson ad. Correlational - not cause and effect
"Simple Elements"-"Atoms of experience" Mary Cover Jones (1924) Experimental - cause and effect
Physical sensations (what we see) Little Albert experiment in reverse - recondition Experimental & control group - random assignment
Feelings (like or dislike object seen) Little Peter - eliminate fear of rabbits Independent variable - dependent variable
Images (memories of object) Desensitization - reconditioning Ethics - Essential, Milgram
Principles of Physiological Psychology Associate with pleasant experience Careers-academic, applied (Clinical Soc Wrkrs, couns/clin psych, psychiatrists)
Copyright 1985-2003 by Professor Ray Saenz