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INTRODUCTION TO
THE SCIENCE OF
PSYCHOLOGY
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LEARNING OUTCOMES
•Define basic terms in psychology;
•Trace the historical development of
psychology;
•Describe the schools and subfields
of psychology;
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LEARNING OUTCOMES
• Explain the goals of psychology;
• Identify the research methods of
psychology;
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Psychology
Mind
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Psychology
Greek Words
“psyche” “logos”
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SCIENCE
…is the pursuit and
application of knowledge and
understanding of the natural
and social world following a
systematic methodology
based.
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PSYCHOLOGY AS A SCIENCE
Psychology as a science
deals systematically with
human behavior, motives,
feelings, emotions, thoughts
and actions.
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PSYCHOLOGY AS A SCIENCE
Like other sciences,
Psychology
discovers and explains the
underlying laws and
principles of behavior
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BEHAVIOR
…anything that is done by a man.
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BEHAVIOR:
Example
Motor activities:
(Walking, speaking)
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BEHAVIOR:
Example
Cognitive activities:
(perceiving, remembering,
thinking, reasoning)
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BEHAVIOR:
Example
Emotional activities:
(feeling happy, sad,
angry, afraid)
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BEHAVIOR
… is the reaction of
an individual to a
particular
environment.
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BEHAVIOR
The environment exerts
INFLUENCE on individuals.
STIMULUS
RESPONSE
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STIMULUS
RESPONSE
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Overt vs Rational vs
TYPES OF
Covert Irrational
BEHAVIOR
Voluntary Conscious
vs vs
Involuntary Unconscious
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Overt vs Rational vs
TYPES OF
Covert Irrational
BEHAVIOR
Voluntary Conscious
vs vs
Involuntary Unconscious
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Overt Behavior unobservable
actions which can
behavior that is only be deduced
observable by by oneself
people. Covert Behavior
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we don’t know
Overt why the man is
walking when we
When a try to understand
man is the covert
walking purpose.
Covert
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Voluntary Involuntary
Behavior Behavior
Behavior that a Behavior that
person is naturally can't be
contributed to an controlled over.
action.
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Voluntary Involuntary
People voluntarily
joined the marathon Eye twitching
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Rational Behavior Irrational Behavior
A type of behavior that It is defined as
is reasonable and unreasonable
used to explain the behavior or having
choices that people
no clear objective
make with regards to
achieving satisfaction. or meaning.
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Rational Irrational
Studying to
comply with
the
requirements
Parents fighting
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Conscious Unconscious
Behavior Behavior
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MIND
…all intellectual and psychological
phenomena of an organism,
encompassing motivational, affective,
behavioral, perceptual, and cognitive
systems;
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MIND
…that is, the organized totality of an
organism’s mental and psychic
processes and the structural and
functional cognitive components on
which they depend.
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TIMELINE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF
PSYCHOLOGY
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5,000 B.C.E
-Trephining used to allow the escape of evil spirits
430 B.C.E
-Hippocrates argues for four temperaments of
personality
1637
-Descartes describes animal spirits
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1960
-John Locke introduces the idea of tabularasa
1807
-Franz Josef Gall proposes phrenology
1879
-Wilhelm Wundt inaugurates first psychology
laboratory in Leipzig Germany
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1890
-Principles of Psychology published by William James
1895
-Functionalist model formulated
1900
-Sigmund Freud develops the psychodynamic
perspective
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1905
-Mary Calkins works on memory
1915
-Strong emphasis on intelligence testing
1920
-Gestalt Psychology most influential
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1924
-John B Watson an early behaviorist, publishes Behaviorism
1951
-Carl Rogers publishes Client-Centered Therapy
helping to establish the humanistic perspective
1953
-B.F Skinner publishes Science and Human Behavior,
advocating the Behavioral perspective
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1954
-Abraham Maslow publishes Motivation and Personality
developing the concept of self -actualization
1969
-Arguments regarding the genetic basis of IQ fuel
lingering controversies
1980
-Jean Piaget and influential developmental
psychologist
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1985
Increasing emphasis on cognitive perspective
2000
-Elizabeth Loftus does pioneering work on false
memory and eyewitness testimony
2010
-New subfields develop such as clinical
neuropsychology and evolutionary psychology
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Structuralism
SCHOOLS OF Functionalism
PSYCHOLOGY Gestalt psychology
(EARLY PERSPECTIVES)
Psychoanalysis
Behaviorism
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Structuralism Formal research in
psychology began at the
university
of Leipzig Germany where
Wilhelm Wundt founded
the first psychological
laboratory in 1879.
Wilhelm Wundt
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Structuralism
Wundt is considered as the
first psychologist and
father of experimental
psychology.
Wilhelm Wundt
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Structuralism
limited the subject matter of psychology to the
study of CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE
SENSATIONS FEELINGS
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Structuralism
Method of Study
people are taught, Introspection is
trained to observe detailed
and report the description and
'content' or 'elements' Introspection how people
of awareness in a
particular situation. perceive things in
the world
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Functionalism
It focused on what the mind
does on the functions of
mental activity and the role
of behavior in allowing
people to adapt to their
environment.
William James
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Functionalism William James was greatly
influenced by Charles Darwin.
James held that the function
of consciousness was to
enable humans to behave in
ways that would act survival
through adaptation to the
William James environment.
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Functionalism Where these adaptive
behaviors were
repeated frequently they
became habits. Habits
provide stability and
predictability
William James in society.
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Gestalt Psychology
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Gestalt Psychology
In order to understand
our environment we
have to perceive it in
its totality not in its
individuality.
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Gestalt Psychology
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Freud said that beneath Psychoanalysis
the conscious experience
is primitive biological urges
that seek expression but
which are in conflict with
the norms and morality of
the society. Sigmund Freud
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Psychoanalysis
These unconscious
motivations and conflicts
have powerful influences
on our conscious
thoughts and actions.
Sigmund Freud
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Psychoanalysis
Therefore they are
responsible for much of
human behavior
including physiological
problems.
Sigmund Freud
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According
to Freud, all behavior
whether normal or
abnormal is
influenced by the
unconscious
mind.
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Structure of
Personality
ID
EGO
SUPERGO
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Psychoanalysis
Methods of studying the unconscious mind
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Biological Perspective
Psychological
approach that focuses
on how bodily events
affect behavior,
feelings, and thoughts
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Biological Perspective
This Hormones
perspective Brain chemistry
involves: Genes
Evolutionary influences
.
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Cognitive Perspective
It focuses on the
process that helps
people to know,
understand, and think
about the world.
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Cognitive Perspective Example:
This perspective explains Can a medical
how information in the student watch
memory is processed at
different stages and how our television and
thinking about the world study at the
influences our behavior. same time?
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Behavioral Perspective
The 1904 Nobel Prize winner,
the Russian physiologist and
psychologist, Ivan Pavlov
opened a new way of thinking
for psychological
investigations.
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Behavioral Perspective
His experiment on dogs
enabled psychologists to
explain certain behavior and
certain differences
among individuals as the
result of learning.
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PAVLOV’S
EXPERIMENT
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Behavioral Perspective
Following the works of
Pavlov, Thorndike and Watson
behaviorism got strength.
Through time, its principles
and methods of study became
an integral part of psychology.
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Behavioral Perspective
The American
psychologist B.F.Skinner
refined and popularized
behaviorism.
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Behavioral Perspective
He showed that the
consequences of
behavior provide the
basic mechanism for
predicting and shaping
future behavior.
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SKINNER’S
EXPERIMENT
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Humanistic Perspective
It is a psychological
approach that
suggests that people
are in control of their
lives.
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Humanistic Perspective
This perspective assumes
that people are naturally
endowed with the capacity
to make decisions about
their lives and to control
their behavior.
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Humanistic Perspective Example:
The human being has if a person chooses
to lead an average
free will to make
life, it cannot be
decisions about his/her considered as
own life, rather than worse compared to
depending on societal a person who has
standards. higher aspirations.
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BRANCHES OR SUBFIELDS OF
PSYCHOLOGY
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To Describe
GOALS OF To Explain
PSYCHOLOGY To Predict
To Change/Control
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To Describe Example:
through describing the
Describing a behavior response of dogs to
or cognition is the first various stimuli, Ivan
goal of psychology. This Pavlov helped develop
can enable researchers laws of learning known
to develop general laws as classical
of human behavior. conditioning theory.
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To Explain
Once researchers have described
general laws behavior, the next
step is to explain how or why this
trend occurs. Psychologists will
propose theories which can
explain a behavior.
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To Predict Example:
classical conditioning
Psychology aims to be able
to predict future behavior
predicts that if a person
from the findings of empirical associates a negative
research. If a prediction is outcome with a stimuli
not confirmed, then the they may develop a
explanation it is based on phobia or aversion of
might need to be revised. the stimuli.
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To Change/Control Example:
interventions based on
Once psychology has classical conditioning, such
described, explained and as systematic
made predictions about desensitization, have been
behavior, changing or used to treat people with
controlling a behavior can be anxiety disorders including
attempted. phobias.
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Experimental Method
Correlational Research
RESEARCH
METHODS IN Survey Method
PSYCHOLOGY Case Study
Naturalistic Observation
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WHAT IS RESEARCH?
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MODERATOR VARIABLES
They moderate the
relationship between the two
ANOTHER IMPORTANT other variables, acting like a
gate valve
VARIABLES
EXAMPLE
AGE, SEX, CLASS
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Experimental Method
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TWO TYPES OF
EXPERIMENTAL
VARIABLES
INDEPENDENT DEPENDENT VARIABLE
VARIABLE A variable that is affected
A variable the by the independent
variable; what is measured
experimenter manipulates
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Independent & Dependent Variables
When psychologists The “X” represents
set up an experiment, the independent
variable.
they think, “If I do X,
The “Y” represents
then my participants the dependent
will do Y.” variable.
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EXPERIMENTAL CONTROL GROUP
GROUP The group that
A group in an Experimental receives similar
experiment that is treatment except for
exposed to the Method: the critical
independent Two Groups independent
variable(s) under variable(s) is called
investigation is the the control group.
experimental group.
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Correlational Research
It is a research method,
which studies the
relationship between
two or more variables.
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Correlation:
It is the degree
of relationship
between two
variables.
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Survey Method
It is a method of getting
information regarding
peoples’ characteristics
attitudes, opinions or
behavior by asking them
all the same question.
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Case Study
It is an intensive
investigation of one or a
few individuals usually
with reference to single
psychological
phenomena.
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Case Study
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ACTIVITY 2:
IS VINCENT VAN
GOGH A GENIUS
OR AN INSANE?
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SUMMATIVE TEST 1
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