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1 Psychology The science of behavior and mental processes.

2 Psychology as Science Empirical
Findings are based on experimentation, observation and measurement

3 Psychology’s Roots Pre-scientific Psychology
Many of the first psychologists were philosophers and religious leaders. Aristotle Hippocrates

4 Psychology’s Roots Wilhelm Wundt opened the first psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig (1879)

5 Psychology’s Roots Edward Titchner (Late 1800s)
Structuralism: used introspection (looking in) to explore the human mind

6 Psychology’s Roots William James (Around 1900)
Functionalism focused on how behavioral processes function and enable an organism to adapt, survive, and flourish Principles of Psychology text

7 Psychology’s Roots Mary Whiton Calkins Ivan Pavlov Sigmund Freud
John B. Watson (1913) B.F. Skinner (1938) Etc., etc.

8 Psychology’s Goals Describe Explain Predict Change What has occurred?
Why did it occur? Predict What will cause it to occur again? Change How do we make something different occur?

9 Contemporary Psychology

10 Biopsychosocial Approach

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