PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Humanistic Psychology, Social Learning Theory, Behaviorism

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2130
• Professor: Christa Philips

Document Summary

Psychology is about the precise manipulation of independent variables for the furtherance of compelling theoretical accounts of well-specified phenomena, such as how many million seconds it takes to find a circle in a field of squares. Psychological triad: how people feel, think and behave. Personality refers to an individual"s (cid:272)hara(cid:272)teristi(cid:272) patter(cid:374)s of thought, e(cid:373)otio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d behaviour, together with the psychological mechanism hidden of not behind those patterns. Basic approach (another commonly used term is paradigm): limit yourself to certain kinds of observations, certain kinds of patterns and certain ways of thinking about these patterns. Trait approach: psychologist focus their efforts on the ways that people differ psychologically and how these differences might be conceptualized, measured and hollowed over time. Biological approach: address biological mechanisms such as anatomy, physiology, genetics, even evolution and their relevance for personality. Psychoanalytic approach: unconscious mind, and the nature and resolution of internal mental conflict.