1. What is psychology?
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2. The Social Science disciplines that form the core of the Human Behavior course:
Sociology
Psychology
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3. social sciences What are the Social Sciences?
What Techniques do the Social Sciences use?
Why are the Social Sciences important?
social sciences
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4. The Social Sciences: History Psychology Economics Sociology
Those disciplines that use research and analysis to study human behavior
History
Economics
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology
Anthropology
Statistics: Those numbers that are collected and analyzed by social scientists and others.
Humanities: Those disciplines that focus on the creative side of the human experience, such as art or literature.
Retribution: One of the functions of punishment. This function is born of society’s need and/or desire for inflicting suffering on the offender that is comparable to the suffering caused by the offence.
Deterrent: A form of strict punishment of lawbreakers that frightens others from similarly breaking the law.
Closely related to natural sciences, especially biology
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5. What is psychology?
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6. Social Scientific Analysis
Psychology: The scientific study of human behavior and mental processes.
people’s thoughts, feelings and behavior.
Sociology: The scientific study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society.
Personality: An individual’s relatively unchanging personal qualities and character.
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7. Behavior is made up of observable actions
What is the difference between behavior and mental processes?
Behavior is made up of observable actions
Mental processes are private, cognitive activities that cannot be directly observed by other.
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8. Study of mind, brain, human and animal behavior, and social interactions.
Experimentation and case studies of normal and abnormal populations (including animals!).
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9. What is going on inside the mind?
Key Questions
Psychologists:
What is going on inside the mind?
Sociologists:
What are the roles of the various groups inside a particular society?
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10. Results apply in manyfields education
business (e.g. human resources, marketing, management)
law
medicine
other scientific disciplines.
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11. Goals of psychology Observe Describe Explain Predict Control …Behavior
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12. What types of work do psychologists do?
many specialties
research
teach
consult
therapy to help people change behavior
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13. Clinical Psychology : psychotherapy and treatment of psychological disorders.
Psychiatry : a field of medicine concerned primarily with mental illness
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