1.1 Daily Video 1

• Psychology: the study of behavior and mind 

  • Behavior: a natural process that can be manipulated to natural laws can seen by the actions of people and animals 

  • Mind: sensations, memories, motives, emotions, thoughts, etc from living things (these are all subjective)

• Structuralism: the mind is broken into parts that could describe behavior

  • Was created by William Wundt (1832-1920)

  • Weakness: uses introspection which is studying your own brain. It can be biased and subjective and you also can’t be in the experiment and think at the same time

• Functionalism:  study the function of the mind 

  • Was created by William James (1842-1910)

1.1 Daily Video 2 and 3 (Approaches)

• Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic: finds a deeper meaning in the unconscious mind (dreams, hypnosis, lying on a couch) 

  • Strength: flexible theory because you can't prove it wrong 

  • Limitation: not very scientific

  • By Sigmund Freud

    • The need to fulfill social interaction comes from unconscious thoughts/desire

• Behavioral: approached by analyzing reflexes & behaviors of an individual to see why they are acting a certain way

  • By Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner

  • (Pavlov) Classical Conditioning: two events are seen as associated with one another, therefore will result in certain reflexes/reactions due to association

  • (Skinner) Operant Conditioning: an individual may behave in a certain way in order to get an incentive/or achieve a punishment or reward

    • Certain behaviors overtime achieve punishments or rewards

    • Certain behaviors become more repetitive due to punishment/reward (shape daily life) 

• Cognitive: focuses on thoughts and one’s emotions

  • The Cognitive Approach focuses on analyzing one’s thoughts & how one sees the world

  • Studies one’s psychological illness by analyzing one’s thoughts about oneself/world

  • Flawed as it is similar to introspection 

  • Strengths: our thoughts are extremely complex & give us different reasons and perspectives to how we behave & think

  • Limitations: thoughts cannot always be recorded/analyzed

    • Flaw includes individuals to reflect on their past thoughts (introspection)

• Biological: your mind is what the body/brain does

  • Strength: can measure data like brain scans

  • Limitation: too simple (need more information)

  • By Charles Darwin

    • Your stomach contracts which means you’re nervous 

• Humanistic:  behavior is looked from free will and unique (looks positive and strengths)

  • Strength: encourages differences between people 

  • Limitation: you can’t physically see potential in people 

  • Respect and accept yourself 

  • By Abraham Maslow 

• Sociocultural: social and cultural groups influence behavior