Psych Module 1
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- Descartes
- fluid from the brains cavities contain animal spirits these spirtis flow from nerves to muscles provoking movement
- empiricism
- view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation
- Structuralism
- Bradford's method to engage people in self reflective introspection training them to report elements of their experience as they looked at a rose, smelled a scent, listened to a metronome, or tasted a substance
- clinical psychologists
- assess and treat mental, emotional, and behavior disorders
- Basic research
- builds psychology knowledge base
- behavior
- anything an organism does
- Locke
- the mind at birth is a blank slate a white paper
- psychiatrists
- provide psychotherapy, medical doctors licensed to prescribe drugs and otherwise treat physical causes of psychological disorders
- aristotle
- the soul is not separate from the body and the same holds good of particular parts of the soul, knowledge is not preexisting, it grows from the experiences stored in our memories
- Edward Bradford
- Structuralism
- counseling psychologists
- help people cope with challenges
- nature-nurture debate
- do human traits develop through experience, or do we come equipped with them? Plato - assuming that character and intelligence are largely inherited Aristotle- countering that there is nothing in the mind that does not first come in from the external world through the senses Locke - rejected the notion of inborn ideas Descartes - disagreed believing that some ideas are innate
- Biopsychosocial approach
- considers the influences of biological, psychological, and social cultural factors
- humanistic psychology
- a softer response to freudian psychology and to behaviorism, focused on environmental needs and on finding love and acceptance
- Mental Processes
- internal, subjective experiences we infer from behavior
- functionalism
- exploration of down to earth emotions, memories, will power, habits and moment to moment streams of consciousness
- socrates and plato
- concluded that the mind is seperate from the body and continues after the body dies, knowledge is innate-born within us
- applied research
- tackles practical problems
- psychology
- scientific study of behavior and mental processes
- introspection
- looking inward