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Psychology Family Tree
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THE END!
Bibliography
- AP Psychology Book by Philip G. Zimbardo, Robert L. Johnson, Ann L. Weber, and Craig W. Gruber.
Teachers of Psychology
- Similar to research psychologists.
- Both tend to work at colleges and universities.
- High schools, colleges, and universities are hiring them to specifically teach psychology.
- Especially Community colleges
- Hired around 9,000 psychologist for teaching positions in 2004 across America.
Applied Psychologists
- Takes information from research psychologists and applies it overcome human problems.
- Such as: training and psychological treatment.
- Can work in several different places.
- Schools, hospitals, social services, and factories.
- Increasing number of psychologists choosing to become applied psychologist.
Experimental Psychologists
- AKA: Research psychologist, the smallest category.
- Study the basic research in psychology.
- Usually work at a college or university.
Psychology Family Tree
Continued Perspectives
Modern Perspectives
- Humanistic
- Emphasizes positive side of our nature.
- Behavioral
- Ways awards/punishments shape how we act.
- Sociocultural
- Social influence is the main focus.
- Evolutionary/Sociobiological
- Examines individual behaviors through natural selection.
- Trait
- Behaviors=a combination of different characteristics.
- Biological
- Causes of behavior in genes, brain, and nervous system.
- Neuroscience
- Developmental
- Changes that occur over a lifespan.
- Cognitive
- Actions affected by how we process outside information.
- Psychodynamic
- Motivated by energy of irrational desires from unconscious minds.
The Schools
- Structuralism
- Wilhelm Wundt-reveled most basic structure of psychology.
- Introspection
- Functionalism
- William James-function of consciousness.
- Gestalt Psychology
- Max Wertheimer-interests about the "perceptual whole" and studied Necker Cube.
- Behaviorism
- John B. Watson-focuses only on behaviors.
- No introspection
- Psychoanalysis
- Sigmund Freud-mental disorders arise from conficts of the unconscious mind.
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Greeks and Romans
- Greeks philosophers: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
- Ideas about consciousness and madness
- Roman Catholic Church
- Against deep thinking about the brain - until Descartes showed up.
- Descartes-human sensations and behaviors are based in the nervous system.
Pschology
- The scientific study of behavior and mental proceses.
- Origin is Greek
- "Psyche"=mind and "ology"=a field of study.
- Ancient Greeks thought the mind and physical body were significantly different from each other.
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