Introduction to Psychology and Counseling

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Introduction to Psychology and Counseling
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Definition of Psychology

• The systematic attempt to understand human
  behavior and conscious experience.

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• Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (1832-1920) was a German
  medical doctor, psychologist, physiologist,
• William James (1842 1910) American psychologist
  and philosopher trained as a medical doctor.
• John Broadus Watson (18781958) was an American
  psychologist who established the psychological
  school of behaviorism, after doing research on
  animal behavior.
• Sigmund Freud, born (1856 1939), was an Austrian
  physician who founded the psychoanalytic school
  of psychology.

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Ways of Knowing

• Tenacity
• Authority
• A Priori Beliefs
• Reason and Common Sense
• Scientific Method

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The Scientific Method
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• Correlational Research
• Case Study
• Experimentation

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Sources of Bias

• Selection
• Placebo Effect
• Experimenter

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Ways of Relating Psychology and Theology

• Christianity Against Psychology
• Psychology Against Christianity
• Christianity and Psychology
• Integration
• Eclecticism

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Sources of Data

• Special Revelation
• General Revelation

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Sources of Tension

• Definitions
• Nonobservable Concepts
• Beliefs

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Evaluation of Psychology

• Advantages of a Christian Perspective
• The Non-Christian and Truth
• Limits of Psychology

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Human Beings in Holistic Perspective
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Christian Contributions to Psychology

• Historical Figures
• Current Contributions