Prologue

• Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and body
• Socrates and Plato were dualists; the belief that there is two seperate and independent realities/domains
• Socrates and Plato believed that the physical world was a bad representation of the real world
• Empiricism is the theory of knowledge is gained through sensory situations
• Aristotle is a father of psychology who studied memory, motivation, evolutionary perception and personality
• Descartes created dualism; the belief of two seperate and independent realities/domains
• Locke was an essentialist; he believed that everyone is innate
• Innate is to be inborn or natural
• Locke believed in Tabula Rosa; the idea that people are born with blank slates
• Wilhelm Wundt and Edward B. Titchener were psychologists that were interested in the mind's consciousness and its structure
• Wilhelm Wundt and Edward B. Titchener were the first to do a psychology experiment
• Wilhelm Wundt and Edward B. Titchener created structuralism and introspection
• Structuralism is the spectation of the mind and human consciousness
• Introspection is the spectating on mental and emotional processes
• William James rejected structuralism and created functionalism
• Functionalism is the function of behavior and mental processes
• Stability vs Change is the ability to maintain a stable state despite change
• Rationally vs Irrationally is the issue of how rational one can be when making decisions
• Nature vs Nurture is the idea that our behavior is influenced by both genes and our environment
• An evolutionary perspective is the understanding of human behavior through the influence of natural selection
• Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic perspective focuses on the development of children sexually and unconsciousness conflict that effects it
• Behavioral perspective is the observation of actions and behavior that is impacted by ones environment
• Conditioning is the learning of association
• Operant Conditioning is the learning of behaviors that are good/bad get rewards/punishments
• Humanistic Perspective is the direct response to humanistic behavior; it's based off of self-growth, self-esteem and self-conflict
• Social-Cultural Perspective is the study of a culture and how it affects ones social life
• Biological Perspective (Physiological/Neuroscience) is based on hereditary and environmental influences
• Cognitive Perspective is based on mental processing and cognition
• Mental processing is the process of sensation, perception, learning, memory and language