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What do Psychologists Do?
Clinical Psychologists
Help with anxiety, depression, relationships, drug abuse, weight issues etc…
Help clients overcome and adjust to their problems
Cannot prescribe medicine
Counseling Psychologists
Help people make difficult decisions about their careers or making friends
Help to clarify goals and resolve conflict
School Psychologist
Help students with problems that interfere with learning.
May give tests to identify learning disabled students or academically gifted students
Educational Psychologists
Help with course planning and instructional methods
May help create standardized tests (SAT)
Developmental Psychologist
Study changes that occur throughout a person’s life span. (Physical, emotional, cognitive & social development)
Personality Psychologist
Identify characteristics, or traits
Interested in why people have certain personality traits.
Social Psychologists
Concerned with people’s behavior in social situations
Usually focus on external influences for behavior
Experimental Psychologists
Usually biologically based experiments (nervous system, sensation, & perception)
Others
Industrial/organizational, environmental, consumer, forensic, & health psychologists.
The History of Psychology
Roots from Ancient Greece:Early explanations for behavior: punishment from the gods.Hippocrates:1st to say behavior is caused by abnormalities in our biology.Socrates: Introspection- “looking within” to understand your thoughts and feelings.
Aristotle: Association-experiences often remind us of similar experiences in the past.
Example: Seeing the face of a loved one makes us feel secure
Believed that people were motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain
The Middle Ages
Common belief that mental illness was a sign of being demon possessed.
“Tests” were done to prove thisExample: Water-float tests.
The Birth of Modern Science
Scientific Revolution gave rise to modern psychology.
Using laboratories to study behavior using the scientific method.
Wilhelm Wundt
Founder of structuralism
Structuralism: we experience the world objectively (sight, sound) and subjectively (emotions, thoughts)
William James
Founder of Functionalism
Functionalism: how mental processes help organisms adapt to their environment.
John B. Watson
Founder of behaviorism and defined psychology as the scientific study of observable behavior
B.F. Skinner
Reinforcement: if an animal is reinforced, or rewarded, for an action, it is more likely to perform that action again in the future
The Gestalt School
Gestalt means “shape” or “form”
Argued that humans see things as a whole not in parts.
Sigmund Freud
Psychoanalysis: importance of unconscious motives and internal conflicts in determining human behaviorGained understanding of human behavior through patientsBelieved that the unconscious was sexual and aggressive and controlling conscious behavior
Biological Perspective
Emphasizes the influence of biology on our behavior.Connection between the events in the brain, behavior, & mental process.Hormones: Affect functions like growth & digestionGenes: deal with heredity, influence personality, traits, psychological health, & various behavior patterns.
Humanistic Perspective
Stresses human capacity for self-fulfillment & the importance of consciousness, self awareness, and the capacity to make choices.Free to choose our own behaviorView people as basically goodExplores feelings, management of negative impulses, & realization of potential.
Cognitive Perspective
Emphasizes the role that thoughts play in determining behavior.
Cognitive psychologists study mental processes to understand human nature.
People’s behavior is influenced by their values, perception, & choices.
Evolutionary Perspective
Focuses on the evolution of behavior & mental processes
Charles Darwin believed physical & behavioral traits can be inherited which can help us to survive.
Evolutionary psychologists believe that our inherited tendencies influence how we act.
Psychoanalytic Perspective
Focuses on the thought that human behavior is influenced by unconscious forces & early childhood experiences.
Pent up aggressive impulses demand and outlet. (bottled up anger causes future explosions)
Learning Perspective
Emphasizes the effect of experience on behavior
Environmental influences, learning habits through repetition & reinforcement
Sociocultural Perspective
Studies the influences of ethnicity, gender, culture, & socioeconomic status on behavior & mental processes
Chapter 2
Section 1: Conducting Research
Ask a Question: based on daily experience, psychological theory, folklore and common knowledge.
Form a hypothesis: an educated guess on what you think the outcome will be.
Test the hypothesisGather information, examine info, is info sufficient to test hypothesis?
Analyze results of test: What do the findings mean?
Draw a conclusion: was the hypothesis correct? Can it be replicated?
ACTIVITY
Create a poster that uses the first letter of each step.Create a catchy saying that will help you remember the order.You must take up the entire paper, it must have one drawing relevant to the saying, colorful, no drug or sexual references, write the steps over at the bottom of the page.
Surveys
Gathering Information by asking people directly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf70HglUMYA
Population and samples
Target population: whole group you want to study or describe.
Sample: only part of the target population is sampled
Random Sample
Random sampling: individuals are selected by chance from the target population.
Stratified Sample
Stratified sample: subgroups in the population are represented proportionally in the sample.
Volunteer Bias
Bias: a predisposition to a certain point of view
Volunteer bias: they often have a different outlook from people who do not volunteer for research studies.
Methods of observation
Testing method: Intelligence, aptitude, & personality tests
Case-study: an in depth investigation of an individual or a small group.
Longitudinal method: researchers select a group of participants and then observe those participants over a period of time.
Naturalistic-Observation Method: studying something in its natural setting.
****This type of method only describes, not explains****
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hISRlatcmX0
Laboratory-Observation method: observe behavior in a lab rather than in the field
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX_oy9614HQ
Analyzing Observations
Correlation: measure of how closely one thing is related to another.
Positive and Negative Correlations
Positive correlations: as one variable goes up, the other variable also goes up. (also, if both go down)
Negative correlation: as one variable goes up, the other variable goes down.
Correlational Limits
Correlation describes relationships. It does not reveal cause and effect.
Experimental Method
Variables: factors that can vary, or change.
Independent variable: the factor that researchers manipulate so they can determine its effect.
Dependent variable: depends on something----The independent variable.
Experimental and Control Groups
Experimental Group: receive the treatment.
Control group: do not receive treatment.
Placebo Effect
Placebo: substance or treatment that has no effect apart from a person’s belief in it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHtSD4oU2Ro
Single-Blind & Double-Blind Studies
Single-Blind: participants do not know whether they are in the experimental group or the control group.
Double-Blind: participants and experimenters are unaware of who receives the treatment.
Ethics
Ethics are standards for proper and responsible behavior.
Confidentiality: records are private between the psychologist and patient
Informed Consent: people agree, or consent, to participate after given a general overview of the experiment.
Research with Animals
No ethical guidelines in place for testing animals.