UNIT 1 INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY

INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY

GOALS OF PSYCHOLOGY

1. Observe
2. Predict
3. Explain
4. Describe control

INFLUENTIAL PHILOSPOHERS THAT MAKE UP PSYCHOLOGY

• Socrates and Plato > Greek Philosophers

• Socrates Belief: Mind is seperate from the body
• Plato’s Beliefs: Mind continues after death

• Aristotle

• Beliefs: Soul is not separate from the body and that knowledge comes from experience.

• Rene Descartes

• Beliefs: Agreed with plato- Mind and body are separate.

• John Locke

• Beliefs: Tabula Rasa (Clean Slate)

Structuralism

-Founded by Wundt & Titchener

PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

1. Biological (Brain/ Nervous System)
2. Behavioral (“Learned Behavior”)- Nothing to do with genetics, determined by experience.
3. Cognitive (“Thinking”) How do they think?
4. Evolutionary (How adaptive that behavior is to our survival)

• Behavior > Inherited

5. Humanistic (“Self love”)

• Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers (View human nature as positive, growth mindset, fulfilling your potential)

6. Sociocultural (Dictated by the culture you live in.)

7. Psychoanalytic/ Psychodynamic (UNCONSCIOUS MENTAL PROCESS that we do not normally have access to but are influenced by.)