Weel 1 Lecture 1-3 Flashcards
(20 cards)
The scientific attitude consists of 3 component parts which are
Curiosity, Skepticism, Humility
The first scientific psychology study was
Wilhelm Wundt’s telegraph experiment in 1879
Behavioural and Developmental Psychologists
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Humanistic Psychologists
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
Social Psychologists
Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo
Cognitive Psychologists
Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck
Early pioneers ->
Study of mental life
Behaviorists ->
Scientific study of observable behavior
Freudian ->
*Emphasis on unconscious thought processes and emotional responses to childhood experiences
Humanistic psychologists ->
*Emphasized human growth potential
Cognitive psychologists
Scientific exploration of how information is perceived, processed, and remembered
Cognitive neuroscientists
Interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with mental activity
Psychology was defined as the science of behavior and mental processes
In 2014 by Myers and Dewall
Forensic psychologists
Apply psychology’s principles and methods in the criminal justice system ex. Billy Mulligan
The four big ideas in Psychology
- Critical thinking is smart thinking
- Behavior is a biopsychosocial event
- We operate with a two-track mind
- Psychology explores human strengths as well as challenges
Positive Psychology is
Studying human’s strengths and virtues to help humans
Flaws in intuitive thinking
- Hindsight bias
- Overconfidence
- Perceiving patterns in random events
Hindsight bias ->
The tendency to believe you knew something would happen after knowing it happened
Overconfidence ->
People tend to think they know more than actually they do
Perceiving patterns in random events ->
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