Psychology 100 Lecture 2 Notes PDF

Psychology 100  Lecture 2  Lecture 2   Administrative matters:  Don’t delay reading the textbook!  Quiz next week!  Lecture 2   Review:  The scientific approach  Skepticism  Empirici...

Psychology 100  Lecture 2  Lecture 2   Administrative matters:  Don’t delay reading the textbook!  Quiz next week!  Lecture 2   Review:  The scientific approach  Skepticism  Empiricism  Lecture 2   Review continued:  Four goals of science:  Describe  Predict  Control  Explain  Lecture 2   Review continued:  Knowledge is provisional  Theory, hypothesis, experiment  History of Psychology   Why study the history of psychology?  How old is “modern” psychology?  What is “modern” psychology?  History of Psychology   Foundations of Psychology are in philosophy:  Plato (424/423 – 348/347 BC) – nativism (nature)  Aristotle (384-322 BC) – philosophical empiricism (nurture, blank slate)  History of Psychology   Some basic philosophy:  Dualsim – Rene Descartes (1596-1650)  Monism – Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)  History of Psychology   Modern psychology begins in 1867  Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920)  Structuralism  Titchner, structuralism, and the decline of the psychology of consciousness  History of Psychology   Functionalsm  William James (1842-1910)  Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection (1859)  How does Darwin’s theory relate to psychology?  History of Psychology   Clinical psychology  Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)  Psychology of the unconscious mind  History of Psychology   Behaviorism: a move away from studying the mind  Observing overt behaviors  Changing behaviors  John Watson (1878-1958)  History of Psychology   Behaviorism continued  B.F. Skinner (1904-1990)  Developed behavioral technology  History of Psychology   Humanism: a new way of seeing human potential in Psychology  Carl Rogers (1902-1987)  Empathy  History of Psychology  The rise of cognitive Psychology A return to investigation human thought processing Advances in technology helps us understand human thinking  History of Psychology  Neuropsychology   Again, advances in technology help us understand brain functioning and it’s relation to human behavior and thinking!