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Vocabulary:
 * Empiricism- knowledge comes from experience.
 * Structuralism- a way of describing a complex topic as group of smaller related parts.
 * Functionalism-an object should serve its purpose and not focus on being decretive.
 * Psychology-it has to do with the brain.
 * Nature-nurture issue-debate that people are either born with certain traits or they develop them based on their environment.
 * Natural selection-it is when the strongest survive.
 * Basic research- no guarantee of short-term practical gain
 * Applied research- conducted with an eye to acquiring and applying knowledge that will address a specific problem or meet a specific need within the scope of the entity
 * Clinical psychology- includes the scientific study and application of [|psychology] for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically-based distress or [|dysfunction] and to promote subjective [|well-being] and personal development.
 * Psychiatry- is a [|medical] [|specialty] devoted to the [|treatment], [|study] and [|prevention] of [|mental disorders]
 * 1) What were the prescientific roots of psychology? philosophy or religion
 * 2) How were early theories influenced by religious thinkers? they stressed that the mind and body were connected.
 * 3) How did the Greeks utilize logical reasoning? Give examples of types of logical reasoning. applying rules of logic to come to a conclusion. examples- deductive reasoning or analogy
 * 4) What development did the Greek philosopher Aristotle add to psychology? he argued that gathering data through observation through people is the best way to learn.
 * 5) Who was Wilhelm Wundt and why is he considered the father of psychology? a former discipline because he conducted an experiment to measure peoples reaction time to sounds
 * 6) What is the cognitive perspective or approach?it is something that would approach a given problem or question about human nature somewhat different
 * 7) What is the neuroscience or behavioral genetic perspective/approach? someone with neuroscience would look for the cause in Andrea's private mental functions.
 * 8) What is the behavioral or social-cultural perspective/approach? they might look for the cause in Andrea's social environment.
 * 9) Insert the careers in psychology chart (image file) into your wiki.



NOTES
 * psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
 * for most of human history people have been asking questions about human nature that psychologists do today.
 * other disciplines compromise the prescientific roots of psychology.
 * some of the earliest theories about the human mind were developed by religious thinkers.
 * there are various forms of logical reasoning- inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning or analogy
 * aristotle believed that logical reasoning was not the best way to come to an understanding of human nature.
 * empiricism- the idea that the knowledge we have come from experiences (especially from the information we get from our five senses)
 * when research participants were asked to press a key as soon as a sound occurred, it took them about 1/10 of a second.
 * peoples behavior doesn't depend only on the information received by the sense organs
 * in the late 1800's psychology was organized around a number of branches, or theoretical.
 * introspection,which involves thinking and reflecting on ones own experience,and telling the researcher about it.
 * another school was called functionalism, which focused on how the brain functioned ,or why the brain and the brain and the body do the things they do.