1. GOALS
1.1. DESCRIPTION
1.1.1. What is happening ?
1.2. EXPLANATION
1.2.1. Why is it happening ?
1.3. PREDICTION
1.3.1. Will it be happening ?
1.4. INFLUENCE
1.4.1. How can it be changed ?
2. DEFINITION :The discipline concerned with behavior and mental processes and how they are affected by an organism’s physical state, mental state, and external environment
3. MAJOR PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
3.1. Biological perspective
3.1.1. Psychological approach that focuses on how bodily events affect behavior, feelings, and thoughts
3.2. Learning perspective/ Behaviorism
3.2.1. Psychological approach that is concerned with how the environment and experience affect a person’s (or nonhuman animal’s) actions
3.3. Cognitive perspective
3.3.1. Psychological approach that emphasizes what goes on in people’s heads
3.4. Gestalt perspective
3.4.1. • Mind is “active”, always searching for meaning.
3.5. Sociocultural perspective
3.5.1. • Psychological approach that emphasizes social and cultural toward processes.
3.6. Psychodynamic perspective
3.6.1. Psychological approach that emphasizes unconscious dynamics within the individual, such as inner forces, conflicts, or the movement of ins:nctual energy
4. What Psychologists Do ?
4.1. PRACTICE
4.2. TEACH
4.3. RESEARCH
5. Main Theories In Psychology
5.1. Structuralism
5.1.1. • Focused on structure or basic elements of the mind
5.2. Functionalism
5.2.1. Stresses on the function of mind in the process of human adaptation in the environment.
5.3. Psychoanalysis
5.3.1. Emphasizes unconscious motives and conflicts (the internal forces) that affect human behavior.