1. What is Psychology? Psychology is both a science and a profession…
How?

2. What is Psychology?
It is a science by doing research and creating new knowledge to try to answer questions
Others transmit the knowledge to others in the form of education.

3. What can you do with it? Industrial Psychologist Clinical Psychologist
Counseling Psychologist
School Psychologist
Social Psychologist
Cognitive Psychologist
Personality Psychologist
Developmental Psychologist

4. 4 Goals of Psychology 1. Describe Behavior 2. Understand Behavior
3. Predict Behavior
4. Control Behavior

5. 4 Goals of Psychology Describe Behavior
-What is the nature of this behavior?
2. Understand Behavior
-Why is this behavior occuring?
3. Predict Behavior
-Can we predict when it will occur
4. Control Behavior
-What conditions will affect the behavior?

6. What is Psychology?
Memory, stress, therapy, love, persuasion, hypnosis, perception, death, conformity, creativity, learning, personality, aging, intelligence, or lack thereof, emotion.
Touches many aspects of our lives, shown by your work the past few days.

7. Psychology vs. Philosophy
How we explore things like knowledge, beauty, ethics and our beliefs about these topics
Simply the behavior
Should we apply Philosophy to Psychology?

8. Psychology vs. Philosophy
What is the philosophy of psychology?
Are first person experiences anywhere close to valid?
Are observational reports reliable at all?

9. What is Psychology?
By definition, psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
Why is psychology hard to define, and hard to study?

10. What is Psychology? Psychologists study all kinds of behavior.
Overt behaviors- those actions and responses that are observable
Examples???
Covert behaviors- those actions that are private and internal

11. What is Psychology?
Psychologists rely heavily on empirical evidence. This information that is gained from observation and measurement is the only data they truly care about.

12. What is Psychology?
There are a number of strands of psychology that are studied, we have already looked at a few.