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What Chapter is Psychology?
Psychology is the scientific study of the causes of behavior.
Why is behavior studied?
- To understand human behavior
- To explain why people do what they do
Fields of Psychology
- Scientists
- Practioners
Areas of Psychological Research
- Physiological
- Comparative
- Behavior Genetics
- Cognitive Psychology
- Cognitive Neuroscience (Brain)
- Developmental
- Social
- Personality
- Evolutionary
- Cross-cultural
- Clinical (40% of all Psychologists)
Applied Psychology
- Clinical Neuropsychologist
- Health Psychologist
- School Psychologist
- Community Psychologist
- Engineering Psychologist
- Forensic Psychologist
Philosophical Roots of Psychology
- Ren Descartes (1596 1650): Dualist (Mind & Matter follow separate laws);
Rationalism
- Locke John (1632 1704): Monist (Mind & Matter follow the same laws); Empiricism
Biological Roots of Psychology
- Johannes Muller (1801 1858): doctrine of specific nerve energies
- Paul Broca (1824 1880): localization of speech production
- Gustav Fritsch (1833 1927) & Eduard Hitziig (1893 blahblah)
- Hermann von Helmholtz
- Ernest weber
Chapter Four
Planning Moving
Frontal lobes involved in planning strategies for action, evaluating them, and changing them in
necessary
Cerebellum knows that movements the front lobes intend to accomplish and what it is doing
Basal ganglia involved in the ctntrol of particularly slow motor movements
Hippocampus spatial orientation and episodic memory or out ability to learn and remember
experience from our daily lives