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    Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behavior. Its main goals are to understand why people act the way they do, explain behavior through environmental causes, describe individual differences, predict behavior, and control outcomes. Behavior includes anything a person does, feels, thinks, or experiences. Behavior can be overt and observable or covert and inferred. Early schools of psychology included structuralism, functionalism, behaviorism, gestalt, and psychoanalysis.

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    CHAPTER 1

    THE NATURE OF PSYCHOLOGY


    PSYCHOLOGY
    PSYCHOLOGY
    • psyche • logos
    soul study

    • psycho • logy
    mind science

    THE SCIENCE OF THE MIND


    It is a scientific study of behavior
    and mental processes which gives
    the idea that mind and behavior can
    be subject for scientific investigation
    ( Atkinson, 2003)
    GOALS OF PSYCHOLOGY

    To understand why people act the way


    they do.
     To explain that behavior, we must know
    the events in the environment that have
    caused that behavior;
    To describe as how individuals differ
    when observed in the same events;
    To predict behavior by identifying all the
    conditions under which an event is likely to
    occur;
    and To control so as to prevent unwanted
    consequences that may bring about
    undesirable outcomes.
    BEHAVIOR

    It is anything that a person or


    animal
    1.does,
    2.feels,
    3.thinks or
    4.experiences.
    CLASSIFICATION OF BEHAVIOR

    1. OVERT - refers to the responses and


    reactions of the individual which are
    directly observable by other people.

    2.COVERT - refers to those processes


    which are not directly observed but are
    inferred by external actions such as the
    reactions of the muscles and glands and
    other organized patterns of responses.
    Early Schools in Psychology
    1. STRUCTURALISM - Wilhem Wundt (1879)
    First school of contemporary psychology.
    It emphasizes on the structure of conscious
    experiences broken down into its
    components elements such as sensations,
    preceptions, mental images and feelings
    These complex substances are analyzed by
    using introspection ( looking within) to study
    the component element of behavior by
    describing one's own memories,
    perceptions, cognitive processes, or
    motivations
    2. Functionalism - William James
    It emphasis on the process of
    conscious activity that is overt and
    observable behavior rather than its
    component elements.
    It describes the operations of the
    mind and not its structures.
    3. Behaviorism - John B. Watson
    It rejects the concept of mental
    consciousness, but instead, it advocates
    measurable and objective observation of
    behavior through stimulus response,
    habit formation, habit integration.
    It denies the existence of instinct or of
    inborn tendencies, but insists on learned
    behavior through conditioning.
    All human learning are products of
    training.
    4. Gestalt - Max Wertheimer
    (1912)
    German word = unified form or shape
    The whole is more than the sum of all
    its parts.
    It emphasizes on the organization of
    perceptual experience into whole
    rather than on its meaningful patterns.
    5. Psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud
    It was developed as a treatment to
    mental disorders caused by extreme
    fatigue, insomia and nervousness.
    It stresses the role of man's cravings,
    motives and desires which are often
    hidden and repressed in the
    subconscious or unconscious mind
    which may result to abnormal behavior.

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