Chapter 1 Flashcards
What is a psychiatrist?
Medical doctor
Define and explain the discipline of psychology.
Scientific study of behavioral and mental processes
*its a science bc it uses the scientific method
Who is a psychologist/ psychoanalyst?
Works with humans and animals in a variety of settings
Who is a psychiatrist social worker?
Training in an area of social work
What are the four goals of psychology?
Description, explanation, prediction, and control
What is description?
What is happening? What do you see?
What is explanation?
Why is this happening?
What is prediction?
When will it happen again?
What is control?
How can I change the environment?
Who was Wundt?
- Father of psychology
- 1879 he created the first psychology lab in Germany
- mind consists of basic elements analyzed by OBJECTIVE INTROSPECTION
- STRUCTURALISM
- examining and measuring one’s thoughts and mental activities
Who was Edward Titchener?
- Wundt’s student who brought structuralism to USA
- introspection about physical objects and thoughts
Who was William James?
- focused on adaptation, living, working, and playing
- functioning in the real world
Who was Sigmund Freud?
- Neurologist and 18th-century Vienna
- psychoanalysis: insight therapy for fear and anxiety
- unconscious drives/motives
- analyze from early childhood
What are the four psychodynamic perspectives?
Behavioral, humanistic, cognitive, biopsychological
What is behavioral?
- Focuses on operant training and conditioning, punishment, and reinforcement
- observable, measurable behavior
- environment is key to determine behavior
