The document provides an overview of the history and key concepts of psychology. It discusses early definitions of psychology, influential figures like Wilhelm Wundt who established the first psychology laboratory, and the development of major perspectives in psychology like structuralism, functionalism, psychoanalysis, behaviorism, cognitive psychology, and humanism. The document emphasizes that psychology studies both behavior and mental processes and that the human mind is complex, requiring many different approaches and methods to understand.

1. Getting to know this b**chin’ science of yo’ mind 

2. Definition:
PSYCHOLOGY
The study of the soul.

3. Definition:
PSYCHOLOGY
The science of behavior and mental processes.

4. Seat of human consciousness is in
the heart (awwww), not the head

5. First psychological
exams for public officials

6. One of the first people to
describe mental illness
Treated patients in a very early
psych ward in his Baghdad
hospital

7. How can humans commit genocide or torture
other humans?
Do we have free will, or are we driven by our
env’t, biology and nonconscious influences?
What is mental illness, and what can we do
about it?
What is consciousness? Or the notion of self?

8. What is the first thing that comes into your
mind when you hear the (big) word
PSYCHOLOGY?

9. One of the most influential and controversial
thinkers of the 20th century

10. Childhood
Personality
Dreams
Sexuality

11. We’re you enrolled in any of them?

12. STRUCTURALISM
FUNCTIONALISM
PSYCHOANALYSIS

13. Set up the first psych lab at the University of
Leipzig,Germany (1879)

14. With E.B.Titchener: “If chemists & physicists
could break down all matters into
STRUCTURES, why can’t we do the same for
your sexxxy mind? ”

15. Relied on
introspection

16. “Why we feel, think &
behave;” function of
behavior
Inspired by no other
than…

17. Adaptive behaviors are conserved in the
evolutionary process

18. Published The Principles
of Psychology
(Psychology – science of
mental life)

20. Published The
Interpretation of
Dreams (1900s)
Unconscious
motives (dreams,
projections &
free association)

22. Focused on observable behavior

23. Published Behaviour of Organisms

25. Importance of early experiences in shaping the
UNCONSCIOUS
Thoughts +
Feelings +
Behaviors +
Personality

26.  Humanistic psychology (Humanism)
 Cognitive psychology
 Gestalt psychology
 Behavioral neuroscience
 Sociocultural psychology

27. Definition:
PSYCHOLOGY
The science of behavior and mental processes.
Recognizes the need for observing and
recording behavior and gives credit to our
mental processes

29. Asking different questions
Attempting to answer them through all kinds of
data-gathering methods

30. The human mind is complicated…
…therefore, there is no single way to crack your
heads open. It must be pried at from all sides.


31. “THE HUMAN BRAIN IS BY FARTHE MOST
COMPLEX PHYSICAL OBJECT KNOWNTO US
INTHE ENTIRE COSMOS.”
- Random witty Harvard astronomer

33. Through the
PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

34.  Say, Markova, a flamboyant transgender
woman punched Bruno, a bully, after he
insulted her. How are you going to explain
Markova’s behavior using:
 the biological perspective?
 the behavioral perspective?
 the cognitive perspective?
 the psychoanalytic perspective?
 the subjectivist perspective?

35. Biological
perspective
An orientation toward understanding the neurobiological
processes that underlie behavior and mental processes
Behavioral
perspective
An orientation toward understanding observable behavior in
terms of conditioning and reinforcement
Cognitive
perspective
An orientation toward understanding mental processes such
as perceiving, remembering, reasoning, deciding, and
problem solving and their relationship to behavior
Psychoanalytic
perspective
An orientation toward understanding behavior in terms of
unconscious motives stemming from sexual and aggressive
impulses
Subjectivist
perspective
An orientation toward understanding behavior and mental
processes in terms of the subjective realities people actively
construct