1. History of Psychology

2. Caveman times ► 1 st to deal with “oddities” ► Trepanning – the opening of the skull to let out evil spirits Did it work?

3. Ancient Greece ► Socrates – Know thyself  Introspection – asking yourself questions; looking within for the answers ► The Gods must be punishing me ► Hippocrates – 4 humors  Sanguine – blood – warm and cheerful  Choleric - yellow bile (quick tempered)  Phlegmatic – phlegm – cool disposition  Melancholic – black bile - thoughtful

4. Middle Ages The Devil Made Me Do it

5. ….Middle Ages ► Started to become scientific  Float Test  John Locke – knowledge is not born, but learned from experience.

6. Structuralism ► William Wundt – discovering the basic element of the conscious experience.  Objective sensations – sight and taste  Subjective sensations – emotional responses and mental images  Used introspection as well.

7. Functionalism ► William James ► How mental processes help adapt to their environment ► 1 st textbook – Principles of Psychology

8. Gestalt Perception is more than the sum of it’s parts.

9. Imagine you are a rat…

10. Behaviorism ► John Watson  What does a rat think? Don’t know, don’t care. ► Scientific study of observable behavior. ► BF Skinner - reinforcement J.B. Watson wipes smile off little Albert’s face

12. Psychodynamic ► Sigmund Freud  Europe 1920’s  All about consciousness  Things in your childhood will effect you later in life  Iceberg Theory of the Mind  Biggest American theory for most of the 20 th Century Century

13. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

14. Current Perspectives ► Psychoanalytic ► Behavioral ► Humanistic ► Cognitive ► Biological ► Sociocultural