PSYC 2000 Chapter : Psychology Chapter 1
Document Summary
Lecture 1 psychology in action and the history of psychology: psychology: scientific study of behavior and mental processes, behavior= any action, mental processes- perception, thoughts, feelings. John watson: behaviorism: study of observable behavior, little albert study, freud: phobias are the result of unconscious conflicts, watson tried to create a phobia using the conditioning technique discovered by pavlov, classical conditioning, pavlov. Psychological professionals and psychological methods: types of psychological professionals, psychologist: doctoral degree and specialized training in one or more subfield of psychology, clinical, counseling, developmental, cognitive, social, biological, personality. Some psychologists do basic research; other do applied research; some do both: therapy. Limitations: artificial situation that may result in artificial behavior, can be difficult to generalize findings to "real world" situations, case study: identification of a unique person with a special condition. Study of one individual in great detail: advantage, tremendous amount of detail, rich source for hypothesis generation.
