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    Psy.

    101: Notes #1

    Psychology: The scientific study of behavior and mental processes (Empirical


    evidence and critical thinking.)

    Pseudo psychologies: Non scientific studies of psychologies.

    Description: tells “what”

    Explanation: tell “why” a behavior or mental process that occurred.

    Prediction: Identifies conditions under which a future behavior is likely to occur

    Change: Applies psychological knowledge to prevent unwanted behavior or to bring


    about desired goals

    Psychologist: Prescriptions (basically a doctor)

    Psychiatrist: Analyzer of minds

    Wilhelm Wundt: “father of Psychology”

    Structuralism: Sought to identify the basic building blocks, or structures, of mental


    life through introspection. (Titchener key leader)

    Functionalism: studied how the mind functions to adapt organisms to their


    environment. (James key leader)

    Psychoanalytic/psychodynamic

    Perspective: unconscious processes & unresolved past conflicts (Sigmund Freud)

    Behavioral Perspective: Objective, observable environmental

    Humanistic Perspective: Free will & self actualization

    Cognitive perspective: thoughts perception

    Neuroscietific: genetics

    Mary Calkins: One of the first women in psychology, first femal president of APA

    Maragaret Floy Washburn:

    Ethnocentrism: Believing one culture is the same as all cultures

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