C2: Major Perspectives of Psychology

• What are the Major Perspectives of psychology?

  Biological, Psychodynamic, Behavioristic, Humanistic, Cognitive, and Evolutionary
• It is the major of psychological perspective that talks about physiology Psychology

  Biological
• It is the major of psychological perspectives that talks about interpretation of dreams

  Psychodynamic
• It is the major psychological perspective that talks about stimulus-response

  Behavioristic
• It is the major of psychological perspectives that talks about self actualization

  Humanistic
• It is the major of psychological perspectives that talks about information processing

  Cognitive
• It is the major of psychological perspectives that talks about adaptation

  Evolutionary
• What element of psychology is this: sensations, emotions, thoughts, perceptions, and actions.

  The "what" of human experience
• What element of psychology is this: cognitive, behavior, and subconscious.

  The "how" of human experience
• What element of psychology is this: evolution, environment, culture.

  The "why" of human experience
• Who speaks and writes about an integrative psychology?

  Dr. Evan Thompson
• It is a psychology that combines the nature and actions of mind, body, and spirit.

  Integrative Psychology
• They are interested in measuring biological, physiological, or genetic variables in attempt to relate them to psychological or behavioural variables.

  Biological psychologists
• It involves training people to concentrate and report on their conscious experiences as they react to stimuli.

  Introspection
• It is a narrative approach to introspective analysis.


  autoethnography
• Who are the two Minnesota researchers used autoethnography?

  Jones and Schmid
• Why introspection is not entirely effective?

  It lacks reliability and self-analysis is not feasible
• One of William James' students who captured the functionalist perspective in relation to a discussion of free will.


  James Angell
• In functionalism, the brain is believe to have evolved for the purpose of bettering the survival of its carrier by acting as an?

  Information processor
• The simple is the source of the complex is called?

  Reductionist
• The whole is more than the sum of the parts is called?

  Holist
• Is biological phycology a reductionist or holist?

  reductionist
• They the psychologists rely on the functionalist insights in discussing how affect, or emotion, and environment or events interact and result in specific perceptions.

  Cognitive psychologists
• The brain comprises of four lobes:

  Temporal, Frontal, Parietal, and Occipital lobes
• It is part pf the brain that is also known as the motor cortex, this portion of the brain is involved in motor skills, higher level cognition, and expressive language.

  Frontal lobe
• It is part of the brain that is also known as the visual cortex, this portion of the brain is involved in interpreting visual stimuli and information.

  Occipital lobe
• It is part pf the brain that is also known as the somatosensory cortex, this portion of the brain is involved in the processing of other tactile sensory information such as pressure, touch, and pain.

  Parietal lobe
• It is part of the brain that is also known as the auditory cortex, this portion of the brain is involved in the interpretation of the sounds and language we hear.

  Temporal lobe
• It is the brain’s ability to selectively filter unattended or unwanted information from reaching awareness

  Visual attention
• His theory is one of the best known

  Sigmund Freud
• Sigmund Freud suggested that psychological processes are flows of what psychological energy in a complex brain?

  Libido
• Is psychodynamic perspective reductionist or holistic?

  Holistic
• According to Psychodynamic psychology, what shapes how a person feels and behaves throughout life?

  the past experiences
• It is the awareness of the self in space and time. It can be defined as human awareness of both internal and external stimuli.

  consciousness
• there are two types of conscious experience:

  Phenomenal and access
• It is a type of conscious experience that is "in the moment"

  Phenomenal
• It is type of conscious experience which recalls experiences from memory.

  Access
• They believed consciousness to be the most basic form of existence, capable of evolution.

  Ancient Mayans
• The considered consciousness to be a progression, not only of awareness but of concern for others as well.

  Incan civilization or Incas
• Sigmund Freud divided human consciousness into three levels of awareness:

  conscious, preconscious, and unconscious.