Sac 1 Flashcards
What is behaviour?
It is any observable action made by a living person.
What is psycogy?
Psychology is the scientific study of behaviour and mental processes in humans.
What is mental process?
An individuals thoughts and feelings that are personal and can not be directly observed.
What is psychiatry?
A psychiatrist is a qualified medical doctor that can perform surgical procedures (neuro) prescribe drugs and can admit a patient in hospital without consent.
What can a psychologist perform?
They use counselling and various types of psychological therapies, because they cannot perform medical procedures or proscribe drugs or admit anyone into hospital without consent.
Who are the three main Greek philosophers?
Socrates, an his followers Plato and Aristotle. But Descartes as a earlier philosopher.
Who started structuralism?
Wilhelm Wundt,it focuses on the structure of consciousness the building blocks that make it up and how they are organised and interrelated.
Who started functionalism?
William James, functionalists are interested on how and why our thoughts and feelings lead us to behave the way we do. And how people adapt to their environment.
Who started Psychoanalysis?
Sigmund Freud, it focuses on the roll on the unconscious conflicts and motivations in understanding and explaining behaviour and mental processes.
Who started Behaviourism?
John B. Watson, behaviourists believe that almost everything that a person (or animal) does is influenced by reward and punishment.
Who started humanism?
Carl Rogers, humanism is based on the assumption that all people are born good and that, throughout their life each individual strives to reach their full potential.
Why does the biological perspective focus on?
It focuses on influences on behaviour mental processes including the brain and the rest of the nervous system, hormones the immune system and genetics.
What does the behavioural perspective focus on?
Focuses on how behaviour is acquired or modified by environmental consequences such as reward and punishments.
What does the cognitive perspective focus on?
It focuses on how we acquire, process remember and use information about our selfs and the world around us.
What does the socio-cultural perspective focus on?
Focuses on the social and cultural influences on human behaviour and mental processes.
