Psychology, asked by ng4423964, 1 year ago

please give me bsc 1 year basic psychology 1 chapter full notes in english.
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Introduction To Psychology - Lecture notes - Chapter 1

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Introduction To Psychology (PSYCH 110)

Chapter 1 04/04/2014 Introspection: a systematic examination of subjective mental experiences that requires people to inspect and report on the content of their thoughts – William Wundt  Structuralism: an approach to psychology based on the idea that conscious experience can be broken down into its basic underlying components – William Wundt Stream of consciousness: a phrase coined by William James to describe each person’s continuous series of every-changing thoughts Rejected structuralism  Functionalism: an approach to psychology concerned with the adaptivepurpose or function of mind and balance  Evolutionary theory: a theory presented by the naturalist Charles Darwin Views the history of a species in terms of the inherited, adaptive value of physical characteristics of mental active and behavior  Adaptations: in evolutionary theory, the physical characteristics, skills or abilities that increase the chances of reproduction or survival and are therefore likely to be passed along to future generations Natural selection: in evolutionary theory, the idea that those who inherit characteristics that help them adapt to their particular environments have a selective advantage over those who do not.  Gestalt school was founded by Max Wertheimer  Against structuralism  The whole is different from the sum of its parts  How people see things differentlyo Affects the study of vision  Mary Whiton Calkins- women who was refused doctorate from Harvard Focused on the concept of self

 Margaret Floy Washburn First women to receive phd in psych Sigmund Freud Father of psychoanalytic theory  Developed psychoanalysis o Brings the patient’s unconscious into the patient’s conscious  Free association- patient talks about whatever he or she wanted to for as long as they wanted  Reveals the unconscious conflicts  Behaviorism: What people and animals do – the observable action  Cognitive research shows that the way people think about things influences their behavior  Cognitive neuroscience: studies the neural mechanisms (mechanisms involving the brain, nerves and nervous tissue) that underlie thought, learning and memory  Social psychology: how social setting affects interactions  Kurt Lewin  While the brain adapts biologically, the contents of the mind adapt to cultural influences  Liking sweet food was an adaptive measure  Ethnomusicology- the cross-cultural study of music preferences  Cognitive psychologists: study processes such as thinking, perceiving ,problem solving, decision making, using language and learning

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