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The Science of Psychology

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Physiological Psychology   show
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Comparative Psychology   show
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show Studies the role of genetics in behavior.  
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show Events that cause other events to happen (including behavior).  
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Cognitive Neuroscience   show
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show The study of changes in behavioral, perceptual, cognitive, social, and emotional capacities of organisms as a function of age and experience.  
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Social Psychology   show
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show The study of mental processes and complex behaviors such as perception, attention, learning and memory, verbal behavior.  
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Evolutionary Psychology   show
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show Devoted to the investigation and treatment of abnormal behavior and mental disorders.  
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show Focused on group type settings. Takes theories research and intervention and communication strategies and applies them to both work and non work settings.  
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show Father of modern philosophy and a biological tradition that led to modern physiological psychology. Advocated a rationalistic approach. Believed that the body was a machine affected by natural causes that produced natural effects.  
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show Took Descartes analysis one step farther and did not exempt the mind from the laws of the material universe. (empiricism).  
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Empiricism   show
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Materialism   show
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show Discovered that the left side of the cerebral cortex was responsible for speech.  
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Determinism   show
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show Looking within in an attempt to describe memories, perceptions, cognitive processes, or motivations.  
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Charles Darwin   show
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show Stemmed from John B. Watsons book Psychology from the standpoint of a behaviorist. Asserts that only proper subject matter for scientific study in psych is observable behavior.  
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Information Processing   show
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Donald Hebb   show
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show Belief that reality consists of mind and matter.  
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John Dewey   show
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show Developed Montessori Method, based on belief that children matured through stages, provide exercises that match competency of the child at that stage.  
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