Intro to Psych Ch1

Wilhelm Wundt

Studied Sensations and attention

Why is the study of sensation/attention smart?

Half outside and half in brain

Volunterism

Ability to control our attention

Edward Titchener

Breaking of thoughts

ATOMS OF THOUGHTS / Structuralism

Physical Sensations

Feelings

Memories/Images

The disagreement

Titchner - atoms make a single memory

James - atoms came together

Functionalism

Atoms of thought come together to make a memory

Gestalt

Look at the whole

Freud

We aren’t as rational as we think

And

We suppress unconscious instincts

Freudian Slips

Language Mistakes

What Freud studied

Psychoanalysis

John Watson ONLY studied what?

Only studied Behavior

Tabula Rasa

Blank Slate

Behavior is baked into you later

No such thing as fate

The Rat experiment

Exposure to rats to see if you can make someone scared of rats

Mary Cover Jones

Desensitization of someone to the white rats or any phobia

Skinner

The mind is a black box

Cognition

There are things that can only be explained with the inside of the mind

Orientations

There are 50+ orientations

Will all orientations give you the same answer

NO

PHD

Doctor of Philosophy

PSYD

Doctor in Clinical Psychology

Social Worker needs a

Masters of Doctorate

Nature Vs Nurture

Are your genes more important than how you were raised?

Conscious VS Unconscious

How much do you do in autopilot or consciously

Observable VS Deterministic

What comes from within and what comes from outside

Diversity VS Universality

How are you like:

All people

Some People

No one

Stability VS Change

Is personality always set?

Mind VS Body

How do they affect each other

Multiple personality

If repeatedly abused, the body will develop one or more personalities that are able to face the issue so the MAIN personality will not suffer.

Natural Observation

No interference, just look at people

Surveys

Lots of subjects,

But what subjects are good?

What questions are good?

Case Studies

Concise research that is very in depth

Correlation is not

Causality

Weird names and crimes committed

Experimental Method

Everything is controlled except the thing you are studying

Inert

Nothing in it

Placebo

Medicine with nothing in it

Stanley Milgram Experiment

Not about punishment in education

It’s about control of authority

Results of the Stanley Milgram Experiment

65% of people shocked the “Dead Body”

IRB

Board of 5 ppl

3 from the company

1 non scientist

1 non affiliated scientist

IACUC

Institutional Animal Care and Use