1. Use your collage to discuss with a neighbor
What is psychology?
Use your collage to discuss with a neighbor
Definition: the scientific study of behavior and mental processes in both humans and animals

2. History Wilhelm Wundt Established Laboratory of Psychology
Made psych a formal field of study
Approach to studying behavior: Structuralism

3. Goals of Psychology Description Explanation
Describe/gather info about behavior
Explanation
Explain why people/animals behave as they do

4. Goals (cont.) Prediction Influence
Use info to predict what subject will do, think, or feel in situations
Influence
Find out more & to benefit others

5. Turn-and-Talk
Given a patient with suspected severe anxiety (sweating, rapid breathing, passing out occasionally), what factors might you consider when trying to learn more about their case or trying to assist them? List a few.

6. Modern Approaches Psychoanalytic Behavioral Humanistic Cognitive
Biological
Sociocultural

7. Psychoanalytic
Influences: Unconscious motivations; childhood experiences
Characteristics: Free association, dream analysis, intensive case study
Psychologists: Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Alfred Adler

8. Free Association Activity
DO NOT WRITE YOUR NAME ON THE PAPER

9. Free Association Activity
Time
Future
Wild
School
Red
Friend
Happiness
Love
Sea
Mountain
Mother
Yellow
Fear
Father
Home
Wrong

10. Behavioral
Influences: Events in the environment (rewards and punishments)
Characteristics: Involves observation and training
Psychologists: BF Skinner, Ivan Pavlov, John Watson

11. Humanistic
Influences: Individual choices; potential to achieve personal growth
Characteristics: NOT controlled by their environment or unconscious factors
Psychologists: Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow

12. Psychology Approaches
Continued

13. Cognitive Influences: Thinking process (process, store, and retrieve)
Characteristics: Behavior results from perceptions, memories & expectations
Psychologist: Jean Piaget

14. Biological
Influences: Biological factors (nervous system, hormones, and genetics)
Psychologists: William James, Roger Sperry

15. Sociocultural Influences: Ethnicity, gender, culture, and SES
Characteristics: Shape attitudes, beliefs, values, social norms and roles
Psychologist: Leonard Doob

16. On your chart…
When studying human behavior & thinking, which approach do you agree with most? Explain why in 3-4 sentences. (Consider: methods, influence, etc.)

17. Applying the Approaches
Example Cases

18. Set up like Examples sheet, so someone else could try and answer
Create a Case Study
With a partner, write your own case study applying each approach to the scenario.
Set up like Examples sheet, so someone else could try and answer

19. What are different ways one could research a topic
What are different ways one could research a topic? Come up with at least 3 different methods.

20. Research Notes
Read pages 36 (begin with “Pre-Research Decision” section) to 40 (end after “Experiment” section)
Add key ideas, terms, and definitely the different research methods to your notes
Include examples to help you understand what each method looks like