Seven unifying themes of psychology-lec2-bscs II sec a
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BSCS –II
SEC A-B
BBA-II
Different school of thoughts in
psychology
Behaviorism:
Cognitiveism:
Fields of psychology
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General psychology
Abnormal psychology
Social psychology
Comparative psychology
Developmental psychology
Educational psychology
Clinical psychology
Cognitive psychology
Industrial psychology
Personality psychology
General psychology:
study of people how they think and behave.
focuses on human behavior and behavioral
disorders.
Abnormal psychology:
Abnormal psychology
Study the behavior of the people who do not adjust with
society.
Deals with abnormal behavior
Covers broad rang of disorders
1. Neuroses: at small level
2. Psychoses: at large level
Social psychology
Looks at the wide rang of social topics.
Group behavior, social perception, non verbal
behavior, aggression etc.
Comparative psychology
Concern with the study of animal behavior behavior.
Developmental psychology
Field of psychology looks at development through out
the lifespan. Through childhood to adulthood.
Include all aspects of human growth.
How and why people change?
1. Physical
2. Emotional
3. Intellectual
4. Social
5. personality
Educational psychology
How people learn?
Students outcomes
Individual differences in learning ,etc.
Clinical psychology
Branch of psychology concerned with,
Assessment and treatment of mental illness and
Abnormal behavior.
Cognitive psychology
Branch of psychology which studies:
Mental process
How people think ,remember and learn etc.
Industrial organizational
psychology
Apply psychological theories and principles to
organizations
Focuses on issues such as, how to increase workplace
productivity?
Study worker attitude and behavior.
Personality psychology
Looks at the patterns of thoughts, feeling and behavior
that makes a person unique.
Themes related to psychology as a field of study
Theme :1 Psychology is Empirical
Every one wants to understand behavior
Why some people are hard worker?
Why some are overweight?
Empiricism is What?
Knowledge should be acquired through observation.
Psychologist conduct research to test their ideas.
Are men more aggressive than women?
Theme: 2 Psychology is
Theoretically Diverse
Psychologist do not set out to just collect facts.
Explain and understand what they observe
To achieve this goal they construct theories.
What is Theory?
System of inter-related ideas used to explain a set of
observation.
No single theory edecuatly explain every thing about
behavior.
Is the glass half empty or half full?
Theme 3: psychology evolves in a
socio-historical context
Interaction exist between what happens in psychology
and what happens in society.
Psychology develops in a social and historical context
through trends, issues and values.
Themes related to psychology ‘s subject
matter
Theme 4:Behavior is Determined
by Multiple Causes
Psychologists find that behavior is governed by a
complex network of interacting factors
There is multi-factorial causation of behavior.
Theme :5 Behavior is Shaped by
Cultural Heritage
Culture refers to the shared customs, beliefs, values,
norms, institutions, and other products of community
that are transmitted socially across generations
Theme :6 Heredity and
Environment Jointly Influenced
Behavior
Genetics and experience both influence an individual's
intelligence, temperament, personality, and to many
psychological disorders.
Theme :7 People Experience of the
World is Highly Subjective
People tend to see what they want to see or what they
expect to see.
Developing Critical Thinking
Critical thinking is purposeful, reasoned, goal
directed thinking.
Involves solving problems
Formulating inferences
Working with probabilities
Making carefully thought-out decisions
e.g.
“What is the most important outcome of an
education?”
Chap:2 Sensation and Perception
Sensation:
Sensation refers to sensing our environment through
touch, taste, sight, sound, and smell (the 5 senses).
This information is sent to our brain and that's when
perception comes into play.
Perception:
perception is the way we interpret these sensations
and therefore make sense of everything around us.
Psychophysics
An area of psychology that examines how physical
stimuli (such as sight or sound) are related to people’s
psychological reaction to those stimuli.
Two basic question
Can people detect low intensity stimulus?
Can people discriminate between two same stimulus?
Detection:
Psychologist present low intensity stimuli and record
whether people report them.
Classical psychophysics
Sensory process
Approximate detection threshold
A candle flame seen at 30 miles on dark clear night.
The tick of watch at 20 feet under quit condition.
The wing of a bee falling on your cheek from a distance of ½ inch.
One drop of perfume diffused into the entire volume of a three room
apartment.
One teaspoon of sugar in 2 litter of water.
Vision
Hearing
Touch
Smell
Taste
Single detection approach
Expectation
Motivation
Bottom-up and top-down
processing
Bot_om
Cons_q__nces
Un_vers_ty
Top-down processing:
Top-down processing suggests that we form our
perceptions starting with a larger object, concept, or
idea before working our way toward more detailed
information.
Bottom up
Bottom-up processing is also known as "small chunk"
processing .
We attend to or perceive elements by starting with the
smaller, more fine details of that element.
Building upward until we have a solid representation
of it in our minds.
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