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Psychology Unit 1
| Psych | Study of the mind |
| Ology | the study of |
| Psychology | the study of human behavior |
| APA - | American Psychiatric Association |
| Developmental Psychology | the study of how human beings grow and change throughout their lives. |
| Physiological Psychology | - study human behavior, thoughts, and emotions |
| Behavior genetics | - study your genetics |
| Experimental psychology | - conduct research on learning and memory |
| Personality psychology | - study anxiety, self esteem, our need for achievement, and how aggressive we are |
| Child-care | givers, how they acquire traits, morals, sex differences and behavior |
| Adolescents | -puberty and parent child relationships. |
| Life span | -relationships, parenting, midlife, death |
| Behavior geneticists | - study your genetics |
| Experimental psychology | - conduct research on learning and memory |
| Personality psychology | - study anxiety, self esteem, our need for achievement, and how aggressive we are |
| Clinical | - help people adjust to life and help problem solve. |
| Counseling | - Treat “disorders” and help with life challenges |
| Pure research | - bringing attention to your college |
| Applied research | - research to solve problems |
| Social Psychology (sociology) | - groups of people |
| Industrial and Organizational psychology | focuses on applying the theories of psychology to the world of work |
| Sports and Forensic psychology | - they put you up and help you continue |
| Environmental psychology - | explores the relationship between humans and the external world. It examines the way in which the natural environment and our built environments shape us as individuals. |
| Community psychology - | Community psychology focuses on social issues, social institutions, and other settings that influence individuals, groups, and organizations |
| Peace psychology - | the study of psychology that seeks to develop theory and practices that prevent violence and conflict |
| Stone age-spirits-trephination | they cut holes in their head to let the spirits out |
| Egyptians - | Ka (looking someone in the eye and seeing yourself) (the thing going around in your head thinking) |
| Greeks- | Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Hippocratic (Seek pleasure and avoid pain and Humors) |
| Phrenology | - bumps on head that determine your personality |
| ship of fools | - live there because they were different |
| Malleas Maleficarum | witches hammer (Dignos “the wired”) - Would get rid of them - Exorcisms, labeled families, trephination, - Boiled, burned, stoned |
| Wundt - | first psychology lab in 1879 (psychology was born) |
| Titchener (Structuralism) | - consciousness is broken down into Objective sensations (sight, tase, touch) Subjective sensation (feeling) |
| James (Functionalism) | - Our patterns in our adaptations turns into habits |
| Freud-Psychodynamic psychology, Father of psychology - | Believe that there is no such thing as free will. We are motivated by unconscious thoughts and desires |
| Psychoanalysis | - technique to uncover unconscious thoughts and desires |
| Watson and Skinner-behaviorism | - rewards and punishment shape our behavior and thinking (didn’t agree with Freud) |
| Gestalt and Humanistic Psychology | - Perceptions are always changing-pictures |
| Cognitive psychology | - process how information is taken in and stored |
| Evolutionary psychology | - focus on origin of certain human behaviors |
| Positive psychology | - figure out ways for people to live a good happy life (believe that if you're happy you will flourish) |
| Eclectic - | a combined approach (pick and choose from theories) |
| Gender | - Male and female (used to be black and white) |
| Gender stereotypes | - the expectation placed on males and females by society |
| Gender roles | - tell males and females how they are supposed to behave in society |
| Feminist psychology | - start looking at issues from a female perspective |
| Sexual orientation | - Heterosexual -opposite sex Homosexual - same sex Bisexual - both sex |
| Race | - a subculture with certain identifiable characteristics |
| Ethnic group | - Category of people that migrate to another country but still see themselves distinctive because of their common homeland |
| Culture - | a design for the way people live |
| Empirical evidence | - must have all the facts you gained |
| Natural observation | – monitor a person |
| Direct observation | - in a lab |
| Case study | - do research to get a description of a person or group from birth to present day |
| Survey | – get your opinion on attitude and behavior ( a questionnaire) |
| Aptitude/vocational | -predict what you may be good at |
| Personality | - introvert/extravert, thinker/doer, opinionated/reserved |
| Hypnosis | used to stop addictions, overcome phobias, to give birth |
| Correlation research | - compare to the norm |
| Dionysians | – highly hypnotizable |
| Apollians | – 50/50 Dwell on the past put reason ahead of emotion |
| Odysseus | – rarely |
| Experimental method | - Seeks to confirm a cause in a relationship |
| Independent variable | - controlled by the experimenter |
| Dependent variable | - the changes that result from manipulation of independent variable |
| Experimental group | - has experiment happen to them |
| Control group - | nothing happens, but the experimental group results are compared against |
| Random | - everyone has an equal chance of being picked |
| Representative sample | - a sample of people that is representative of the general population of the area |
| Phrenology | - bumps on your head |
| Astrology | - study the planets and where the planets are (determine your future) |
| Numerology | - certain numbers in programs or in cards that mean something for the future |
| Palm reading | reading the lines on your hand to determine your future |
| Telepathy | - the transfer on thought between two individuals |
| ESP | - knowledge gained independently of senses |
| Anthropomorphism | - giving human characteristics to animals |
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