2. Call me Anne Richards Dr. Richards Dr. Anne Miss Richards Miss Anne Teacher Professor

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4. You

5. The class Interesting FunChallenging

6. Classroom atmosphere

7. Take notes Study for examsDon’t give up Ask for help Take care of yourself Do your homework Form study groups

8. Syllabus

9. Access to materials online Angel course website http://angel.northseattle.edu –Powerpoints –Syllabus –Grades –Tegrity recordings

10. Introduction to Psychology Lecture 1

11. What are the roots of psychology? Ancient healers –Trephining Occurred as long ago as 7,000 years by Neolithics

12. The Roots of Psychology Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) soul and body are not separate and that knowledge grows from experience. http://faculty.washington.edu

13. The Roots of Psychology Rene Descartes - 1637 –Pineal nerve is the “seat of the soul” where the mind interacted with the body Portrait by Frans Hals, 1648Frans Hals wikipedia

14. The Roots of Psychology John Locke - 1690 –Tabula rasa (blank slate) Do you think you were a blank slate when you were born? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFqbwIzyvRM

15. The Roots of Psychology The birth of modern Psychology –Wilhelm Wundt and his graduate students First psychology laboratory Structuralism Used trained subjects –Introspection

16. Lets try it What is your experience of this lemon? How would you describe the sensations lemon -- colors, its roundness, its shading? If you were Wundt’s subjects you would be asked to reflect on this for hours!

17. The Roots of Psychology Functionalism –William James –Wrote “Principles of Psychology” –Stream of consciousness

18. Lets try it What are you thinking about right now? Write down on a scrap of paper everything you are thinking of in the order you think of it.

19. The Roots of Psychology William James quotes - http://www.thinkexist.com/english/Author/x/Author_1046_1.htm “A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.” “Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.” “Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.” “The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”

20. Women in Psychology: Founding Mothers Margaret Floy Washburn (1871- 1939) –First woman to receive a doctorate in psychology –Studied animal behavior Controversial theory that animals have minds Mary Calkins (1863-1930) –Student of William James –First female president of the American Psychological Association –Studied memory (paired associations)

21. Women in Psychology: Founding Mothers Leta Stetter Hollingworth (1886-1939) –One of the first psychologists to focus on child development and on women’s issues Mamie Phipps Clark (1917- 1983) –Pioneered work on how children of color grew to recognize racial differences

22. Psychological Science is Born Freud (1856-1939)

23. Psychological Science Develops Behaviorists Watson and later Skinner emphasized the study of overt behavior as the subject matter of scientific psychology. Watson (1878-1958) Skinner (1904-1990)

24. Psychological Science Develops Humanistic Psychology Maslow (1908-1970) Rogers (1902-1987) http://facultyweb.cortland.edu http://www.carlrogers.dk

25. Psychology Today We define psychology today as the scientific study of behavior (what we do) and mental processes (inner thoughts and feelings).

26. Contemporary Psychology 1.Psychology’s Subfields 2.Who are psychologists and what do they do? 3.Issues and controversies in Psychology

27. Psychology Subfields Basic research Applied research Counseling psychologists Clinical Psychologists Psychiatrists

28. Where do psychologists work?

29. Key Issues in Psychology Nature versus Nurture Conscious versus Unconscious causes of behavior Observable Behavior versus Internal Mental Processes Free Will versus Determinism Individual Differences versus Universal Principles