Psychology

1. DISCIPLINES AND
IDEAS IN THE
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Humanities & Social Sciences

2. Activity 2:
Tic-Tac-Thi
nk!

3. How do you
make decisions
in life?

4. Lesson 9:
PSYCHOLOGY

5. PSYCHOLO
GY
The study of the mind
and behavior.

6. PSYCHOLOG
Y
The study of how and
why the human mind
works the way it does.

7. FIELDS OF
PSYCHOLOGY

8. Behavioral Psycholo
gy
Focus on the theory of learning
based upon the idea that all
behaviors are acquired
through conditioning.

9. Cognitive Psycholog
y
Focuses on internal states such
as motivation, problem-solving,
decision-making, thinking, and
attention.

10. KEY CONCEPTS
IN PSYCHOLOGY

11. Thoughts
An idea or opinion produced
by thinking, or occurring
suddenly in the mind.

12. Behavior
The way in which one acts
or conducts oneself,
especially toward others.

13. Personality
Consistent patterns of
an individual’s behavior,
attitude, and thoughts.

14. Personality
There are two approaches in the
study of personality: (1) Differences
in personality characteristics;
(2) Various parts of a person that
make up his/her personality.

15. Personality
There are two approaches in the
study of personality: (1) Differences
in personality characteristics;
(2) Various parts of a person that
make up his/her personality.

16. Personality
There are two approaches in the
study of personality: (1) Differences
in personality characteristics;
(2) Various parts of a person that
make up his/her personality.

17. Personality
According to Sigmund Freud, there
are elements of Personality:
ID – EGO - SUPEREGO

18. Personality
The id is driven by the pleasure
principle, which strives for
immediate gratification of all
desires, wants, and needs.
ID

19. It’s all yours!
Forget about
your brother.
Keep it all for
yourself.
ID

20. Personality
The superego holds the internalized
moral standards and ideals that we
acquire from our parents and society
(our sense of right and wrong).
SUPEREGO

21. Personality
The superego provides
guidelines for making
judgments.
SUPEREGO

22. It’s all yours!
Forget about
your brother.
Keep it all for
yourself.
You know that
your brother
loves candy. You
should give it
all to him and
not be greedy.
ID SUPEREGO
ID

23. Personality
The ego is the personality
component responsible for
dealing with reality.
EGO

24. It’s all yours!
Forget about
your brother.
Keep it all for
yourself.
You know that
your brother
loves candy. You
should give it
all to him and
not be greedy.
I know mom gave me
this candy to share
with my brother. We
should split it evenly.
ID
SUPEREGO
EGO

25. Cognition
The mental action or process
of acquiring knowledge
and understanding.

26. Cognition
These mental processes that take
place in the brain include: thinking,
attention, language, learning,
memory experience, and perception
through senses.

27. Consciousness
The awareness or
perception of something
by a person.

28. Mind
The element of a person that
enables them to be aware of the
world and their experiences, to
think, and to feel; the faculty of
consciousness and thought.

29. Mind
Conscious
Unconscious
THREE
LEVELS
OF THE
MIND
Preconscious

30. Consciousness
Conscious
Pertains to the person’s
current awareness.

31. Consciousness
Preconscious
Pertains to the memories and stored
knowledge that a person is not
currently aware of but can be
brought to the present easily by the
process of remembering.

32. Consciousness
Unconscious
Pertains to those fears, motives, sexual
desires, wishes, urges, needs, knowledge
and past experiences that a person is not
currently aware of and which cannot be
easily brought to the conscious level.

33. Motivation
It is the reason why a person acts.
It is the driving force behind actions
and is influenced by the environment,
personal choices, behavior,
intelligence and traits.

34. Development
The changes that occur
in a person throughout
his or her life.

35. Development
These changes are
physical, intellectual,
emotional, and social.

36. DISCIPLINES AND
IDEAS IN THE
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Humanities & Social Sciences