Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
What is Psychology?
Historically
Professionally
Psychology, Contemporary
Perspectives
Paul Okami
Oxford University Press
Bookstores and Coursmart
Concept Maps
Course Stuff
Blackboard: Grading and Exams, Linked Content,
Announcements and email
iClicker: In-class questions. Register your device
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Name and ID
McGurk Effect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRZN7Tm9rnA&feature=youtu.be
Questions of Psychology
Ancient views:
India: Buddhist psychology:
The self is an illusion created by desires
Eightfold path to enlightenment
Plato
Nativism: certain kinds of
knowledge are inborn or
innate
Aristotle
Empiricism: all knowledge
is acquired through
experience
Mid 1800s:
Physiology: workings of
the biological machines
Psychology: workings
of the self
Wilhelm Wundt
First Laboratory
Introspection
Structuralism
Functionalism:
What are the functions
of the mind?
First textbook of
Psychology
BF Skinner (1904-1990)
JB Watson (1875-1958)
Most of behavior
explained by learning
and experience
Psychology Today
Basic Research
Behavior Genetics
Biopsychology
Neuroscience
Social Psychology
Perceptual Psychology
Applied Psychology
Advertising
Forensic Psychology
Health Psychology
Organizational Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Doctoral Degrees
~40,000 per year (US)
~3,500 in Psychology
>60% female, 24% minority (2008)
Median age 32
64% had BA in Psychology
Median time to completion 7 years
Psychology as a Profession