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INTRODUCTORY PSYCHOLOGY PS100
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- Psychology, 3rd Ed
- Gleitman. Henry 1991 (orig1981),
Norton publisher
- Gleitman Full Contents
- instructor: Dr. Doug Needham
- PSYCHOLOGY 100 SYLLABUS
- Section 1:
- Physiological Psychology
- Motivation
- Personality
- Section 2:
- Psychopathology
- Social Psychology
- Section 3:
- Basic Learning Processed
- Developmental Psychology
- Language
- Section 4:
- Intelligence
- Perception
- Cognitive Psychology
- Intro to Research Design
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Gleitman Text Framework:
- CATEGORIES Sections Overview - present subareas of psychology with 5 questions:
- 1) how do humans (animals) act? ACTION
- 2) how do they know? COGNITION
- 3) how do they interact? SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
- 4) how do they develop? DEVELOPMENT
- 5) how do they differ from one another? INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
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FRAMEWORKS -intellectual cohesion
- topic against backdrop of one or two major ideas that could
organize & unify framework
- biology - organism as a machine
- motivation - manifestation of negative feedback
- cognition - nature vs nurture | psychological autonism versus organization
- ORIGINS, ASSUMPTIONS -integration by taking step backwards:
- pioneer paths that led to present.
“Much as a river’s water is clearer when taken from its source, so issues that have become more and more complex as detail has piled upon detail become more plain and evident when traced back to its origin.” (Gleitman)
- use why questions:
- Why did Thorndike study cats in boxes?
- Why did his conclusions have such an impact on American Psychology?
- Why were they challenged by Kohler and Tolman?
- Gleitman text REVIEW NOTES
- ACTION
- ch2 Biological Basis of Behavior
- ch3 Motivation
- ch4 Learning
- COGNITION
- SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
- ch10 Biological Basis of Social behavior
- ch11 The Individual and Society: Psychoanalysis
- ch12 Social Cognition and Emotion
- ch13 Social Interaction
- DEVELOPMENT
- ch14 Physical and Cognitive Development
- ch15 Social Development
- INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
- ch16 Intelligence
- ch17 Personality: Assessment and the Trait Approach
- ch18 Personality: Psychodynamic, Behavioral and Humanistic Approaches
- ch19 Psychopathology
- ch20 Treatment of Psychopathology
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Psychology 100 SUMMARY NOTES
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The Psychology User:
Whether specialist or non-specialist, “psychology deals with nature of human experience and behavior, about the hows and why’s of what we do, think, feel. Everyone has perceived, learned, remembered, forgotten, has been angry and afraid and been in love, has given to group pressure and been independent. In short, everyone has experienced most of phenomena that psychology tries to explain. This being so, psychology cannot fail to be relevant.” (Gleitman)
We see that the knowledge of psychology is relevant. But how do we use this knowledge? How do we move concepts from academic environment to the real world?
- narrow scope
- My first attempt to create applied psychology content was on a small scope, focused on motor learning for elite athletes. I created the manual “Self Directed Coaching: sport psychology resources for elite athletes”
- wide scope
- Now I have moved onto a much larger scope of applied psychology - behavior research supported by data science (2018)
- "I have noticed a similarity between what clients ask from psychology in the real world and what introductory psychology students ask; the hard why and how questions." (Gleitman)
- Introductory psychology text author, admits that it is the hardest text to write:
“Students in an advanced course will come to you with tough and searching questions; they want to know about evidence that bears on a theory of , say, color vision, language acquisition, and about how that evidence was obtained. But students in introductory course ask the toughest question of all. They ask why anyone would every want to know about color vision (or language acquisition or whatever) in the first place. And they also ask what any one topic has to do with another.” (Gleitman)
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