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    Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. It attempts to understand human beings and other species. There are several subdivisions of psychology including developmental psychology, physiological psychology, experimental psychology, personality psychology, clinical and counseling psychology, social psychology, and industrial and organizational psychology. Major schools of thought in psychology include structuralism, functionalism, psychodynamic, behaviorism, Gestalt, existential and humanistic, cognitive psychology, and evolutionary psychology. Enduring issues in psychology relate to the interplay between person and situation, heredity and environment, stability and change, diversity, and the relationship between mind and body.

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    Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. It attempts to understand human beings and other species. There are several subdivisions of psychology including developmental psychology, physiological psychology, experimental psychology, personality psychology, clinical and counseling psychology, social psychology, and industrial and organizational psychology. Major schools of thought in psychology include structuralism, functionalism, psychodynamic, behaviorism, Gestalt, existential and humanistic, cognitive psychology, and evolutionary psychology. Enduring issues in psychology relate to the interplay between person and situation, heredity and environment, stability and change, diversity, and the relationship between mind and body.

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    Introduction to Psychology

    What is Psychology?

    Scientific study of the individual Scientific study of behaviour and mental processes Attempts to understand human beings and other species

    01-10-09

    Introduction to Behavioral Sciences Instructor: Saba Nasir

    Subdivisions of Psychology

    Developmental psychology

    Physiological psychology

    Studies human mental and physical growth from conception to death

    Experimental psychology Personality psychology

    Investigates the biological basis of human behavior


    Conducts research on basis of psychological processes like learning, memory, sensation, perception etc Personality psychologists study the differences among individuals
    Introduction to Behavioral Sciences Instructor: Saba Nasir

    01-10-09

    Subdivisions of Psychology

    Clinical and counseling psychology


    Clinical psychologists are interested primarily in the diagnosis, cause, and treatment of psychological disorders. Counseling psychologists are concerned primarily with normal problems of adjustments in life. Social psychologists study how people influence one another

    Social psychology

    Industrial and Organizational psychology

    Psychology applied to the workplace


    Introduction to Behavioral Sciences Instructor: Saba Nasir 4

    01-10-09

    Major Schools of Thought

    Structuralism

    Functionalism

    Structuralism was concerned with identifying the units of conscious experience. Physical sensation, Feelings, Image Wlhelm Wundt Bradford Titchener Functionalism was concerned with the ongoing use of conscious experience. Consciousness cannot be broken into elements. Pure sensation without associations-simply do not exist William James
    Introduction to Behavioral Sciences Instructor: Saba Nasir 5

    01-10-09

    Major Schools of Thought

    Psychodynamic

    Behaviorism

    Focused on the unconscious determinants of behavior. Human beings are not so rational and they are motivated by unconscious instincts & urges. Freud developed a method of therapy called psychoanalysis. Personality develop in series of critical stages during first few years of life. Sigmund Freud Behaviorism is only concerned with behavior that can be observed and measured..
    John B. Watson B.F. Skinner

    01-10-09

    Introduction to Behavioral Sciences Instructor: Saba Nasir

    Major Schools of Thought

    Gestalt

    The Gestalt movement was concerned with the perception of form. Against structuralism view. (series of still pictures) Tendency to see pattern, to distinguish an object from its background, to complete picture from cues. Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Kohler, Kurt Koffka Existentialism is concerned with alienation and apathy in modern life. Search for sum meaning in this world and guide toward inner sense of identity Playwright, jean Paul startre Humanism is concerned with helping people realize their full potential.
    Introduction to Behavioral Sciences Instructor: Saba Nasir 7

    Existential and Humanistic


    01-10-09

    Major Schools of Thought

    Cognitive Psychology

    Concerned with memory, thinking, language, learning, decision making (mental process) Expanded the concept of behavior to include thoughts, feelings, and states of consciousness Mental processes can and should be studied scientifically. Concerned with the evolutionary origins of behaviors and mental processes Their adaptive value and the purposes they continue to serve Reproductive success: all species are genetically programmed to produce offspring.
    Introduction to Behavioral Sciences Instructor: Saba Nasir 8

    Evolutionary Psychology

    01-10-09

    Enduring Issues

    Person-situation Hereditary-environment Stability-change Diversity Mind-body

    01-10-09

    Introduction to Behavioral Sciences Instructor: Saba Nasir

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