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 * [[image:Why_Study_Psychology.JPG width="359" height="255"]]
 * The study of behavior must be systematic. Many different approaches are necessary to understand the complex richness of human behavior
 * Example: The story [|"The Blind Men and the Elephant"]


 * Psychology can provide useful insight into behavior.
 * the relationship between brain and behavior
 * Studying psychology provides an avenue for students to become more self-aware and to better understand the behavior of others
 * [[image:More_self_aware.JPG width="158" height="83"]]
 * helps students prepare for careers in social services, business, education, medicine, or law.

What is [|Psychology]?

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 * 1st goal is to gather information and to present the info.
 * [[image:Explanation.JPG width="277" height="64"]]
 * Find an explanation for the facts that you have found before you diagnose the problem.
 * [[image:Prediction.JPG]]
 * Predict what the person or organism is going to do.
 * Studying past behaviors can better help to predict subsequent behaviors.
 * Work to influence or control the behaviors of the person that they are working with Wilhelm Wundt
 * Dualism-17th century- and Descartes.
 * Structuralism- 1879-Wilhelm Wundt- Introspection self obstructive to collect things about the mind.
 * Functionalism- William James (around 1890)
 * Psychoanalysis-Sigmund Freud; a practicing physician in Vienna until 1938
 * Behaviorism- Ivan Pavlov; BF Skinner, Actions are controlled by how you are rewarded.
 * Humanism-“I’m ok, you’re ok.”

Ivan Pavlov > The Psychology of Learning
 * [[image:Conditioning.JPG]]
 * [[image:Classical.JPG]] - Controlling an animal or a persons behavior/responses in a way that an old response becomes attached to a new stimulus. (associates Dr. with pain)
 * [|Classical conditioning] starts with two things that are connected with each other in some way, and then you add another thing in a few times. After time the 2 original things will become associated with the added third thing.
 * The name most associated with Classical conditioning is [|Pavlov.] He did lots of tests involving dogs, food, and bells.
 * You can train people and animals to do something when they hear a specific noise even if it has nothing to do with the thing that they are doing.
 * For example, Pavlov gave his dog food, everytime that he gave him food he would have a bell that would ring. When dogs eat they salivate. After long enough of ringing a bell when he ate, the dog would salivate when he heard a bell even if he didnt get any food.
 * [[image:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/142/323800975_2faea1cd3f.jpg?v=0 width="392" height="301"]]
 * [[image:Operant.JPG]] - Learning from the consequences of behavior. (comforting - something bad will happen)
 * Generalization - subject responds to a 2nd stimulus similar to the original CS without prior training with second stimulus
 * Discrimination - ability to respond differently to different stimuli
 * Extinction - CR gradually dies out over time. Cand also be manipulated
 * Reinforcement - can be defined as a stimulus or event that affects the likelihood that an immediatly preceding behavior will be repeated. NOT necessaily positiv
 * Aversive contol - when aversive or unpleasant consequences influence behavior.
 * Negative reinforcemnt - a paintul or unpleasant stimulus is removed or is not applied at all. It follows and takes away (negates) an aversive stimulus. Store in shoe.
 * Escape conditioning - a person behavior causes an unpleasant event to stop
 * Avoidance conditioning - a person's behavior has the effect of preventing an unpleasant situation from happening
 * Punishment - an unpleasant consequence that occurs and decreases the frequency of the behavior that produces it
 * Rewards - must come immediatly after the behavior you want to change.
 * John Watson's Experiment - [|The case of the Little Albert.]

Lauren S. Debbie P.
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"The Psychology Major Site." __Indianna University College of Arts and Science__. 2002. Indianna University. 15 Jan. 2008 <[|http://www.indiana.edu/~psych/undergrad/Major/whypsych.html>.]

Roustan. "Digital Story Assignment." __Mrs. Roustan's Online Classroom__. 2008. Eastern High. 15 Jan. 2008 http://schoolcenter.fhps.us/education/components/docmgr/default.php?sectiondetailid=14550&fileitem=9352&catfilter=1901.

Brown, William C. "Classical Conditioning." 16 Sept. 1996. 17 Jan. 2008 http://www.as.wvu.edu/~sbb/comm221/chapters/pavlov.htm.

"Classical Conditioning." __Ivan Pavlov's Classical Conditioning__. 18 Jan. 2008 http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/classical_conditioning.htm.

Photo Citations

"Pavlov Dog." __Flickr__. 18 Jan. 2008 <[|http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoltandragon/323800975/>.]

"Classical Conditioning." __Ivan Pavlov's Classical Conditioning__. 18 Jan. 2008 http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/classical_conditioning.htm.

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