Time to meet the major players in Psychology

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Time to meet the major players in Psychology

• Intro to psych

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• Rene Descartes ( 1596-1650 )
• First Philisopher to think human nature could be
  studied
• Hello I am Rene

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Charles Darwin

• Father of Evolutionary Psychology (1809-1882)
• Evo Psych is the study of evolutionary origins of
  human behavior patterns

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• Evolutionary Psychology looks at the bigger
  picture and try to understand why human beings,
  as a species act the way they do.
• Evolutionary Psychology looks at how human
  behavior functioned to promote the survival and
  propagation of the species
• Just as humans physically evolved so has human
  behavior
• Survival of the fittest leads to certain
  behaviors..

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• Many Psychologists believe that evolution left
  an imprint on men and women that has influenced
  everything from sexual attraction and infidelity
  to jealousy and divorce.
• How and why men and women do what they do in
  relationships ..

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The Father of Psychology

• 1879 Wilhelm Wundt started a psych lab in Germany
  
• Wundt tried to map out basic structure of thought
  processes and studied conscious experience
• His work attracted many students to the field

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Wilhelm Wundt
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Sigmund Freud

• The Founder of psychoanalysis

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• The Psychoanalytic perspective views behavior as
  driven by powerful mental conflicts locked deep
  within the subconscious.
• Freud believed that most people were riddled with
  conflicts between their own needs and societys
  demands.

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• Freud always had it on his mind

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John .B Watson

• First American Behaviorist
• Psychology should concern itself only with
  observable facts of behavior
• All Behavior is the result of conditioning
• We are all taught or conditioned to behave in a
  specific way

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Carl Rogers

• Major Humanist
• Argued for building Self Esteem
• Take time to ask a client whats wrong and he
  might just tell you
• Client centered not Dr. Centered

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Jean Piaget ( The Child Mind Pioneer )

• Does a Childs Mind work differently than ours??
• One of the things we learn early on is that life
  is constantly throwing us curve balls and we have
  to find ways to hit them. Sometimes, we can fit
  that curve ball into our current environment
  with just a minor tweak (assimilation) and
  sometimes we have to change our way of thinking (
  accomodation)
• Example- A baby who is a champion at nipple
  sucking might be able to incorporate cups and
  bottles into his sucking scheme. Eating from a
  spoon however, is a whole new challenge.

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Piaget

• Piaget was interested in more than how children
  think. He was interested in what and why they
  think

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Wanna take an IQ test

• Sir Francis Galton invented procedures for
  testing abilities and characteristics that are
  still used in personality and intelligence tests.

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Drooling like a Dog?

• Ivan Pavlov and his theories of Classical
  Conditioning

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Do you Drool?

• In Classical Conditioning two stimuli become so
  closely associated that one of them can elicit
  the same reactive behavior as the other.

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BF Skinner

• Understanding another person was simply a matter
  of understanding the consequences he or she
  experienced during a lifetime.
• Skinner spoke of Reinforcements
• Consequences that increase the occurrence of a
• particular behavior over time
• They can be positive ( a hug, a raise in pay) or
  negative (a punishment, for example)