theoretical psych

ID

primitive instincts and desires, unconscious

Ego

Conscious decision making process

Superego

partly conscious, strives for perfection

Positive psychology

Martin Seligman

Functionalism

William James

Cognitive psychology

George Miller

Biological Psychology

Hermann von Helmholtz

Psychoanalysis

Freud

Behaviorism

Skinner

Humanistic psychology

carl rogers

Structuralism

Wilhelm Wundt

Individual psychology

Alfred Adler

Analytic Psychology

Carl Jung

Ego Psychology

Karen Horney

Leipzig, Germany 1879 - Wilhelm Wundt

Established the first research lab of psychology

Gorden Allport (1937)

Definition of personality - Personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to the environment

Nobel prize winners

Ivan Pavlov
Herbert Simon

Daniel Kahneman

Konrad Lorenz

Modern psychology is the scientific study of

Mind and behavior

3 Ethical principals of Psychology

Competence. Responsibility. Integrity

Vision, Hubel and Wiesel

Vision is the main input gate for human perception

Conscious iceberg layer

Thoughts and perceptions

pre-conscious iceberg layer

Memory stored knowledge

unconscious iceberg layer

Instincts, fears, selfish motives

Top down attention

the voluntary allocation of attention to certain features, objects, or regions in space.

Bottom up

automatic and triggered by external stimuli

Cocktail party attention

the ability to focus one's attention a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli (selective hearing)