BACKGROUND AND HISTORY OF PSYCH (STRUCTURALISM-PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY)

What is Psyche

triumph soul

Ology

scientific study of the mind

WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGY

scientific study to acquire knowledge.

Scientific Theory

supported by evidence over time

Scientific Theory

testable, perceivable and measurable.

The Scientific Method

empiricism, observation

GOALS OF PSYCHOLOGY

Describe

Explain

Predict

Control

Describe

first step in understanding behavior

Explain

WHY is the behavior occuring?

Predict

WHEN will the behavior occur?

Control

HOW can we change it?

STRUCTURALISM

understand the structure or characteristics of the mind (INDIVIDUAL)

FATHER OF PSYCHOLOGY

Wilhelm Wundt, German

introspection

Internal perception

FUNCTIONALISM

how mental activities helped an organism fit into its environment (A WHOLE)

FOUNDER

William James American, Natural Selection

2 TYPES OF BEHAVIORISM

CLASSICAL AND OPERANT CONDITIONING

CLASSICAL CONDT.

Ivan Pavlov Russian, John B. Watson American

OPERANT CONDT.

B. F. Skinner

BEHAVIORISM

how behavior change in certain situation

EXAMPLE OF EXPI;

Little Adam

Electric Mouse

GESTALT PSYCH

wholeness, a sensory experience can be broken down into individual parts

FOUNDERS

Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, Wolfgang

Köhler (GERMAN)

Psychoanalytic theory

person’s unconscious, as well as early childhood

experiences, dream analysis

FOUNDER

Sigmund Freud.

CO-FNDR.

CARL JUNG

3 PARTS OF UNCONSCIOUS MIND

CONSCIOUS

SUB-CONSCIOUS

UNCONSCIOUS

PERSONALITY THEORY (3 PARTS)

ID

EGO

SUPEREGO