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    This document provides an introduction to the field of psychology. It defines psychology as the scientific study of behaviors and mental processes. Psychologists use scientific methods to study both observable behaviors and complex mental processes like thinking and dreaming. The document outlines some of the main areas psychologists study like affect, behavior, and cognition. It distinguishes the roles of psychologists and psychiatrists and describes psychologists as focusing on non-medical diagnosis and therapy while working closely with psychiatrists. Finally, it discusses the goals of psychology as describing, explaining, predicting, and controlling behavior and provides a brief history of the field dating back to ancient Greece.

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    This document provides an introduction to the field of psychology. It defines psychology as the scientific study of behaviors and mental processes. Psychologists use scientific methods to study both observable behaviors and complex mental processes like thinking and dreaming. The document outlines some of the main areas psychologists study like affect, behavior, and cognition. It distinguishes the roles of psychologists and psychiatrists and describes psychologists as focusing on non-medical diagnosis and therapy while working closely with psychiatrists. Finally, it discusses the goals of psychology as describing, explaining, predicting, and controlling behavior and provides a brief history of the field dating back to ancient Greece.

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    psychology.

    PSYCHE + LOGOS
    (MIND) (STUDY)
    “study of the mind”
    Introduction to Psychology
    • Psychology is the systematic, scientific study of behaviors and mental
    processes.

    • Psychology uses scientific methods and reasonings


    • Behavior: Observable actions or responses in both human and animals.
    • Mental Processes: Wide range of complex mental processes: thinking,
    imagining, studying and dreaming.
    Psychology Alphabet

    •A : AFFECT: emotions, mood


    •B: BEHAVIOR: actions
    •C: COGNITION: mental
    activities
    What do Psychologists do?
    • Don’t read minds
    • Don’t estimate one’s character at a glance
    • Are not authorities on spiritualism, mental telepathy,
    and fortune - telling
    • Psychologists are responsible for nonmedical aspects
    of diagnosis and therapy
    • Works closely with a psychiatrist
    Who’s who
    PSYCHOLOGIST PSYCHIATRIST
    Has A PhD, specialized in a clinical sub area, has A medical doctor (MD), spent several years in
    spent additional year in supervised therapy clinical training which includes diagnosing
    setting to gain experience in diagnosing and possible physical and neurological causes of
    treating a wide range of abnormal behaviors. abnormal behaviors and treating these behaviors,
    often with presciption drugs
    Does not assess physical or neurological causes
    of mental problems or prescribe drugs
    4 Goals of Psychology
    • DESCRIBE; the different ways that organisms
    behave
    • EXPLAIN; the causes of behavior
    • PREDICT; how organisms will behave in certain
    situations,
    • CONTROL; an organism’s behavior
    HISTORY
    • The study of Psychology can be traced from Greece about 2500 years
    ago when philosophers posed fundamental questions about mental life.
    • Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle (SPA) believed that the mind and soul
    are essentially the same.
    • Hippocrates: Father of Medicine. Deeply interested in physiology
    (study of functions of the living organisms and its parts.) He made
    important observations about the brain controls various organs in the
    body, setting the stage for what became the biological perspective in
    Psychology.
    Most psychologists see the roles of both nature
    and nurture in the lives of human beings.

    • NATURE: Human beings have an inborn store of knowledge


    and understanding of reality. Descaretes: nativist views
    (some ideas are innate)

    • NURTURE: Knowledge is acquired through experiences and


    interactions with the world. John Locke: tabula rasa (at birth,
    the human mind is a blank slate.
    THANK YOU:)

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