INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY

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INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY

• HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

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What is Psychology?

• The scientific study of behavior and mental
  processes.

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Where did the science of psychology come from?
"Trinity" by Orlando Tisato
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Theology Messages from the Gods

• "... it is by no means to everyone that the gods
  grant a clear sight of themselves." Homer,
  Odyssey 16.160

Narcissus and Echo Narcissus was a youth
possessed of incredible beauty, and while
everyone who saw him loved him, males as well
as females, he spurned them all through
pride.  The hapless nymph Echo, whom Hera had
punished by turning her speech into a repetition
of what others said, came across Narcissus in a
glade and pleaded with him, using his own words,
to love her.  He rejected her.  Artemis grew
angry and caused him to fall in love with
himself.  Narcissus came to a clear pond and
became enraptured when he saw his reflection.  He
sat down and gazed longingly at himself hour upon
hour.  At length he desperately killed himself
with a knife, unable to bear his self-love, and
where his blood fell grew up the narcissus
flower, which has medicinal properties.  Echo
repeated his dying word, "Alas!"
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Greek Philosophers The Golden Age (480 399)
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The Physicalists - physical causes of neural
and mental processes
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Psychologists
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Wundt Structuralism
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William James Functionalism

• When two elementary brain-processes have been
  active together in immediate succession, one of
  them, on reoccurring, tends to propagate its
  excitement into the other (James, 1890/1983, p.
  534)

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Sigmund Freud Psychoanalysis
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John Watson Behaviorism
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Carl Rogers Abraham Maslow Humanism
Rogers
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Contemporary Psychology

• Biological nervous system, endocrine system,
  immune system, genetics
• Psychodynamic Freudian unconscious influence
• Behavioral observable, laws of learning
• Humanist people naturally seek to
  self-actualize
• Cognitive mental processes
• Cross-Cultural cultural influence
• Evolutionary Perspective -- survival of the
  fittest

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