PSY101 Highlighted Handouts by Ch Ismail

PSY101 Handout Highlight · Important Topics · CH Ismail · Table of Contents

Lesson 1 What is Psychology? Lesson 2 Historical Roots of Modern Psychology Lesson 3 Schools of Thought Lesson 4 Perspective/Model/Approach Lesson 5 The Psychodynamic Approach/ Model Lesson 6 Behavioral Approach Lesson 7 The Humanistic Approach and the Cognitive Approach Lesson 8 Research Methods in Psychology (I) Lesson 9 Research Methods in Psychology (II) Lesson 10 Physical Development and Nature Nurture Issue Lesson 11 Cognitive Development Lesson 12 Nervous System (I) Lesson 13 Nervous System (II) Lesson 14 Endocrine System Lesson 15 Sensation Lesson 16 Hearing (Audition) and Balance Lesson 17 Perception I Lesson 18 Perception II Lesson 19 Altered States of Consciousness Lesson 20 Learning Lesson 21 Operant Conditioning Lesson 22 Cognitive Approach Lesson 23 Memory Lesson 24 Memory II Lesson 25 Memory III Lesson 26 Secondary/ Learnt/ Psychological Motives Lesson 27 Emotions I Lesson 28 Emotions II Lesson 29 Cognition and Thinking Lesson 30 Thinking, Reasoning, ProblemSolving and Creativity Lesson 31 Personality I Lesson 32 Personality II Lesson 33 Personality III Lesson 34 Intelligence Lesson 35 Psychopathology Lesson 36 Abnormal Behavior I Lesson 37 Abnormal Behavior II Lesson 38 Psychotherapy I Lesson 39 Psychotherapy II Lesson 40 Popular Areas of Psychology

WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGY?

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Beginning with the first psychological laboratory, founded in 1879 by German philosopher and physiologist Wilhelm Wundt, modern psychology’s can be traced in many disciplines and countries. Psychology’s historical perspectives and current activities lead us to define the field as the science of behavior and mental processes.

Theoretical perspectives of psychology

There are many disciplines that study human nature. Psychology is one. Within psychology, the biological, behavioral, psychoanalytic, cognitive and social+lcultural perspectives are complementary. Each has its own purposes, questions, and limits; together they provide a fuller understanding of mind and behavior.

Why do we study psychology?

Scientific inquiry begins with an attitude of eagerness to skeptically investigate competing ideas, with an openminded approach. Putting ideas to the test helps us in fully understanding them. The curiosity that drives us to test ideas, and to expose their underlying assumptions, can be experienced in every day life as critical thinking.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The course will encompass basic concepts of psychology

Concepts like learning, memorizing, retention, emotions, process of thinking, how do Our sense organs work etc will be discussed. Also, issues like what is normal and what is abnormal behavior, the interventions used For treating psychological problems, along with an overview of main and popular Areas of psychology will also be tackled.

The main focus of the course will be on introducing essential terminology, theories, themes, concepts, and trends relevant to modern day psychology The main focus is to help students to learn and understand what are the essential and important areas of study in psychology. Also students will be enabled to understand and learn the basic concepts which psychology is mainly based on.

Practical application of knowledge, besides a know how of theoretical constructs, will be encouraged How to use psychology and psychological concepts in every day life is an essential component, besides having a basic understanding of the theoretical part of it. It is expected that after completing this course, the student will be able to use the psychological concepts for resolving problems, or at least identifying, problem areas and situations where psychological intervention is required.

The course will be taught bilingually

COURSE OBJECTIVES

By the end of the term the students will be able to:

Understand and use basic terminology of psychology:

Terms, concepts and processes when we are studying and applying psychology’s principles in daily life tasks

Understand and identify the various applications of the discipline as well as its

scientific

nature: Understanding of how to conduct psychological research is very important and it needs thorough study of research techniques of how to conduct research, what are the basic steps involved, how to verify the findings; and most importantly, whether it is ethical as well as applicable to humans or not; The students will get a feel of it. The scientific methodology will not be discussed in detail since this is an introductory, foundation, course.