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What is psychology? - Coggle Diagram
What is psychology?
New Science
Most advances happening in the last 150 years
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
Philosophers discussed topics now studied by modern psychology
Beginnings
Structuralism made by Wilhem Wundt
Breaking down mental processes into the most basic components
Wundt separated psychology from philosophy by the mind in a more structured way, emphasis on object measurement
Perspectives of psychology
Structuralism, functionalism replaced by Psychoanalysis
Dominant paradigm, could be cured by making conscious their unconscious thoughts and motivations
Behavioral Psychology: Learning through association, Rewards and punishments, Aversion therapy
Humanistic Approach "third force" subjective experience and personal growth
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Cognitive Approach
Internal mental processes, theoretical and computer models
1960's and 1970's adopting a rigorous, scientific lab based approach to memory, perception, cognitive, development, mental illness.
Goals
To describe: describing a behavior or cognition the first goal of psychology
To explain: described general laws behavior
To predict: aims to be able to predict the future behavior
To change: describe, explained and made predictions changing or controlling a behavior can be attempted