intro to psych
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This is just a little intro to our high school psych course. It covers the early pioneers of psychology as well as the various schools of thought regarding psych.TRANSCRIPT
Intro - You Design It• You have been hired by Ford Automotive
Corporation to help design a new car.– The goals are to design features that will help
• A. keep the driver alert / heighten the driver’s awareness• B. improve driver responsiveness• C. increase use of seat belts• D. decrease “road rage” • E. Make long distance rides more comfortable• F. Eliminate Drunk Driving• Get drivers to obey traffic laws
What is Psychology?
• The scientific study of human and animal behavior
What is Behavior?
• Pretty much ANYTHING that you do, think or feel.
Types of Psychology
• Applied: – Figures out how to USE information found by
researchers– “NASA scientists study which colors to paint the
inside of the International Space Station”
•Research: –Studies why things happen.–Deals with theories and lab experiments
•“Lab tests show people’s anxiety level increases when surrounded by the color red.”
Fields of PsychologyWhere Psychologists work
Uiversities Colleges and
research settings48%
Hospitals clinics and human services
24%
Independent practice
15%
Business and government
13%
Example fields (p21-22)• Clinical Psychology – therapists etc
• Educational Psychology – therapists for kids, help ID and aid learning styles and issues
• Child Psych – how the brain grows and learns to learn. Also – how to parent
• Environmental Psych – coping with disasters, crowding, workplace environment
Example Fields continued
• Industrial Psych – marketing, public relations, efficiency
• Engineering Psych – human / machine interaction, design casinos
• Experimental Psych – usually research people. Lab experiments. Colleges
• Teaching – this class for instance
Stretch Your Brain
• Lets APPLY some psychology:– How can psychology help to clean up the
environment?
History of Psychology
The founders
Charles Darwin
• Not a psychologist• Developed theory of
evolution– Physical forms evolve– Emotions can also evolve to
serve a purpose
• Believed we can study animals to understand ourselves
William Wundt (“Vundt”)
• Germany 1880s• Laboratory of Psychology• “Father of Psychology”• First to try to scientifically study
the workings of the mind• Introspection
– Record your thought– Map out the thought process– Did not work out well – but
inspired others
William James
• First American Psychologist
• 1880s – 1900s• All activities of the mind
(thinking, feeling learning, remembering) serve to help us survive
• “Streams of Consciousness”
Sigmund Freud
• Austrian late 1800s – 1930s
• Psychoanalysis
•Conscious mind is only the tip of the iceberg
–Concentration on the unconscious mind
–“learn through dream analysis”
Francis Galton (1880s, England)
• Is Behavior / Intelligence hereditary or learned?– “nature vs nurture idea– Based his ideas on biographies of
“intellectual” families• Has some serious flaws
• Developed the first “personality tests” and “intelligence tests”
Ivan Pavlov• Russia early 1900s
• Experiments with his dog
• Conditioned response– Behavior is result of past
experience
John Watson (early 1900s)
• ALL behavior is the result of learning (or conditioning) – even what we think is instinct
• Similar experiments as Pavlov – but Watson used children
• Has some serious
impact on the kids
Albert and the rat
B.F. Skinner
• Mid – late 1900s. American.• Conditioning can be applied to
entire societies– Reward for behavior results in that
behavior being done again in the future• Though he did not feel the opposite worked
(punishment does not change behavior – just covers it up)
– Entire basis for “Walden II” – a utopian society based on rewarding good behavior
(Class participation points work the same way
Approaches to Psychology
• Neurobiological
• Behavioral
• Psychoanalytic
• Cognitive
• Sociocultural
Neurobiological
• Concentrates on the Chemical / Physical reasons for behavior– What chemical reactions occur in our brains
and bodies as a result of stimulations and what reactions do they cause?
• In some ways, our behavior is hard wired into us
Just for laughs
Outdoor Grilling Area
Behavioral
• We adapt our behavior based on rewards
• We learn through experience
• Behavior can be changed– B.F. Skinner was a behavioralist
Humanistic
• Interested in what it means to be human
• Everyone has the chance to grow to greatness. The only thing holding us back is ourselves.
We continually strive to achieve greatness
Carl Rogers
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Psychoanalytical Approach
• We all have suppressed desires
• We unconsciously do things to alleviate these desires
• Analyze what we do subconsciously in order to understand our REAL selves.– Freud: father of psychoanalysis
Cognitive Approach• We are thinking creatures
– We can analyze our thoughts / behaviors and change things. We are in charge of our lives
• We process information through– perception, attention, language, memory, and thinking
• How they influence our thoughts, feelings, behaviors and ability to operate in our world.
• Past experiences make the difference between one person's perception and another's
– Can you give an example to illustrate this?
Sociocultural Approach
• Impact society has on behavior
– economics, race, ethnic group, climate, religion, language, traditions, cultures, gender, location, politics, etc