Psychology:Module 1

Wave 5: Eclectic

All about variety and the 7 perspectives of psychology.

Biological: the idea that all feelings and behaviors have organic roots

Subtopic

Behavior Genetics: Tells to which degree genes and our environment contribute to individual differences

Evolutionary Perspective: focuses on Darwinism: "Inherited behaviors: the idea that our behaviors were also used by our ancestors and put to use in order to survive.

Psychodynamic: focuses on the unconscious mind. Someone may repress true feelings and not know it due to past experiences, etc

Behavioral: How we learn through rewards; cause & effect per say

Humanistic: Concept of spirituality, free will

Cognitive: specifically aimed at the thought process, how we receive info

Wave 4: Behaviorism

Focus on observable actions

If your behavior can be altered, inner feelings are irrelevant.

Popular in the 1950s when appearance>expression

Main topic

first psych lab created in 1879 in London, by Wilhelm Wundt

Concept of "introspection"-breaking the mind down into different parts

Principles of Psychology (1890)

Wave 2: Gestalt Psychology, led by Max Wartheimer. Focused on our experience of the world

Wave 3: Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud,"most feelings come from a place hidden in the mind"

Idea of the unconscious: the Id-pleasure

Ego: aware of reality, is rational

Superego: your conscious: tells you whether or not to do something