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HowWhat we do as Psychologists and why
The major question investigated is why people think and behave the way they do.
Psychology and its methodolodgies
Empirical (we are scientists)
Theoretically Diverse
Socio-historical
Themes
Behavior is determined by multiple causes
Behavior is shaped by cultural heritage
Both nature and nurture are influences
Individual experience of the world is highly subjective
Validity - does it measure what it is supposed to measure?
Reliability - Will you get the same results time and again?
Independent variable - thing you manipulate or which predicts
Dependent variable - thing you measure
Correlation exists when two variables are related. Correlation does not imply causation
Wilhelm Wundt - structuralism William James - functionalism
Behaviorism comes out of functionalism.
Based on the nativist ideas -How we are wired.
Behaviorism - the avoidance of subjectivity.
Empiricism. - Environment over heredity.
Talk about Watson and ethics
- all mental behavior reducible to responses.
Mengele.
Deception and coercion.
Freud - unconscious forces
Id/ego/superego
Defense mechanisms
Psychosexual stages of development
Personality - which parts of us can be measured
Humanists - qualities of hum behavior and the irrelevance of animal research. Begat clinical (especially after WWII)
Cognition - how we measure thought and brain processes
Mark Van Selst and drinking studies - boredom
Social - group interactions/ how society functions. Cultural factors.
Evolutionary Psych - arguing all of the above from a historical perspective.
Discuss
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