Focuses on how people think, remember, store, and use information
Who influenced cognitive psychology?
Philosophers
Physiologist
Who is the father of cognitive psychology?
Wihnelm Wundt
What is biological psychology?
The application of the principles of biology to the study of physiological, genetic, and developmental mechanisms of behavior in humans and other animals
What is behaviorism/learning psychology?
Learning/conditioning
Types of whole person psychology
Psychodynamic
Humanistic
Trait and temperament
What is psychodynamic psychology?
Emphasizes systematic study of the psychology forces that underlie human behavior, feelings ad emotions, and how they might relate to early experiences
What is humanistic psychology?
Emphasizes the study of the whole person; they look at human behavior of the person doing the behavior
What is trait and temperament psychology?
Personalities
What is developmental psychology?
Change over time
What is the socio-cultural approach?
Focuses on how we influence and are influenced by others
What is the purpose of research in psychology?
To extend the field's body of knowledge
Types of Research psychology?
Descriptive
Correlational
Experimental
What does descriptive researc do for us?
Allows us to describe what we observed, noted, measured, etc.
What does descriptive research limit us to?
We cannot talk about cause and effect relationships
Methods of descriptive research
Observations
Case study
Surverys
What is correlation research?
Describes the relationship between two variables
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