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Psychology(9th edition)
David MyersPowerPoint Slides
Aneeq AhmadHenderson State
University
Worth Publishers, © 2010
Contemporary Psychology Psychology’s Biggest Question
Psychology’s Three Main Levels if Analysis
Psychology’s Subfields
CLOSE UP: Tips for Studying Psychology
Psychology
With hopes of satisfying curiosity, many people listen to talk-radio counselors and
psychics to learn about others and themselves.
Dr. Crane (radio-shrink)
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Psychology’s RootsAristotle (384-322 B.C.)
Aristotle, a naturalist and philosopher, theorized about psychology’s concepts. He suggested that
the soul and body are not separate and that knowledge grows from experience.
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Psychological Science is Born
Wundt and psychology’s first graduate students studied the “atoms of
the mind” by conducting experiments at Leipzig, Germany, in 1879. This work is considered the birth of psychology as
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Psychological Science is Born
American philosopher William James wrote an important 1890 psychology textbook. Mary Calkins,
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Psychological Science is Born
Sigmund Freud, an Austrian physician, and his followers emphasized the importance of the
unconscious mind and its effects on human behavior.
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Psychological Science is Born
Psychology originated in many disciplines and countries. It was, until the 1920s, defined as the science of
mental life.
Psychological Science DevelopsBehaviorists
Watson and later Skinner emphasized the study of overt behavior as the subject matter
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Psychological Science Develops
Humanistic Psychology
Maslow and Rogers emphasized current environmental influences on our growth
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Psychology Today
We define psychology today as the scientific study of behavior (what we
do) and mental processes (inner thoughts and feelings).
Psychological Associations & Societies
The American Psychological Association is the largest organization of psychology with 160,000
members world-wide, followed by the British Psychological Society with 34,000 members.
Contemporary Psychology
1. Psychology’s Biggest Question2. Psychology’s Three Main Levels of
Analysis3. Psychology’s Subfields4. CLOSE-UP: Tips for Studying
Psychology
Psychology’s Current Perspectives
Perspective Focus Sample QuestionsNeuroscience How the body and
brain enables emotions?
How are messages transmitted in the body? How is blood chemistry linked with moods and motives?
Evolutionary How the natural selection of traits the promotes the perpetuation of one’s genes?
How does evolution influence behavior tendencies?
Behavior genetics
How much our genes and our environments influence our individual differences?
To what extent are psychological traits such as intelligence, personality, sexual orientation, and vulnerability to depression attributable to our genes? To our environment?
Psychology’s Current Perspectives
Perspective Focus Sample Questions
Psychodynamic
How behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts?
How can someone’s personality traits and disorders be explained in terms of sexual and aggressive drives or as disguised effects of unfulfilled wishes and childhood traumas?
Behavioral How we learn observable responses?
How do we learn to fear particular objects or situations? What is the most effective way to alter our behavior, say to lose weight or quit smoking?
Psychology’s Current Perspectives
Perspective Focus Sample QuestionsCognitive How we encode,
process, store and retrieve information?
How do we use information in remembering? Reasoning? Problem solving?
Social-cultural
How behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures?
How are we — as Africans, Asians, Australians or North Americans – alike as members of human family? As products of different environmental contexts, how do we differ?
Psychology’s Subfields: Research
Psychologist What she does
BiologicalExplore the links between brain and mind.
DevelopmentalStudy changing abilities from womb to tomb.
CognitiveStudy how we perceive, think, and solve problems.
Personality Investigate our persistent traits.
SocialExplore how we view and affect one another.
Psychology’s Subfields: Applied
Psychologist What she does
ClinicalStudies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders
CounselingHelps people cope with academic, vocational, and marital challenges.
EducationalStudies and helps individuals in school and educational settings
Industrial/Organizational
Studies and advises on behavior in the workplace.
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