4 Goals of Psychology
1. Describe Behavior
-What is the nature of
this behavior?
3. Predict Behavior
-Can we predict when it
will occur
2. Understand Behavior
-Why is this behavior
occuring?
4. Control Behavior
-What conditions will
affect the behavior?
What is Psychology?
Psychologists study all kinds
of behavior.
Overt behaviors- those actions
and responses that are
observable
Covert behaviors- those
actions that are private and
internal
Examples???
What is Psychology?
Psychologists rely heavily on
empirical evidence. This
information that is gained from
observation and measurement
is the only data they truly care
about.
Functionalism
Psychology begins to broaden to
now include animal behavior,
religious experiences and
abnormal behavior
William James is responsible for
the idea that the mind functions
to adapt us to our environment.
Behaviorism
Behaviorism objected strongly
with the ideas of Functionalism,
and wanted to study overt,
observable behavior more.
Idea of Stimuli and Response
Baby Albert experiment
John Watson proclaimed that
he could take any child and
make them be whatever he
wanted through conditioning.
Agree?
Gestalt Psychology
Gestalt Psychology emphasizes
the idea that thinking,
learning, and perception
should be done in whole units,
not by analyzing parts.
Done by Max Wertheimer
Humanistic
Psychology
Psychoanalytic
Behaviorism
Humanism focuses on an
understanding of subjective
human experiences.
try to understand the problems,
First occurrence of actual free-will!
potentials, and ideals that humans
face
Believe that we want to become the
Self Actualization
best possible version of ourselves