1. Unit 1: Psychology’s History and Approaches

2. Unit Overview What is Psychology? Contemporary Psychology Click on the any of the above hyperlinks to go to that section in the presentation.

3. What is Psychology?

4. Psychology’s Roots Prescientific Psychology Ancient Greeks –Socrates –Plato –Aristotle

5. Psychology’s Roots Prescientific Psychology Rene Descartes Francis Bacon John Locke –Tabula Rasa (blank slate) Empiricism

6. Psychology’s Roots Psychological Science is Born Wilhelm Wundt (1879) –University of Leipzig –Reaction time experiment

7. Psychology’s Roots Thinking About the Mind’s Structure Edward Titchener –StructuralismStructuralism introspection

8. Psychology’s Roots Thinking About the Mind’s Function William James –FunctionalismFunctionalism –Mary Calkins –Margaret Floy Washburn Experimental psychology

9. Psychological Science Develops Sigmund Freud

10. Psychological Science Develops Behaviorism –John B. Watson –B.F. Skinner –“study of observable behavior”

11. Psychological Science Develops Humanistic psychology –Carl Rogers –Abraham Maslow Cognitive Neuroscience

12. Psychological Science Develops Psychology –Science –Behavior –Mental processes

13. Contemporary Psychology

14. Psychology’s Biggest Question Nature – Nurture Issue –Biology versus experience –History Greeks Rene Descartes Charles Darwin –Natural selectionNatural selection

15. Psychology’s Three Main Levels of Analysis Levels of Analysis –Biological –Psychological –Social-cultural Biopsychosocial Approach

16. Psychology’s Three Main Levels of Analysis

20. Psychological Approaches/Perspectives Biological psychology Evolutionary psychology Psychodynamic psychology Behavioral psychology Cognitive psychology Humanistic psychology Social-cultural psychology

21. Psychological Approaches/Perspectives

30. Psychology’s Subfields Psychometrics Basic Research –Developmental psychologyDevelopmental psychology –Educational psychologyEducational psychology –Personality psychologyPersonality psychology –Social psychologySocial psychology

31. Psychology’s Subfields Applied Research –Industrial/organizational psychologyIndustrial/organizational psychology –Human factors psychologyHuman factors psychology –Counseling psychologyCounseling psychology –Clinical psychologyClinical psychology –PsychiatryPsychiatry

32. Tips for Studying Psychology SQ3R Study Tips –Distribute your study time –Learn to think critically –In class, listen actively –Overlearn –Be a smart test-taker