TTC – Psychology Component I Introduction

1. TTC – Psychology Component IIntroduction February, 2007 (PS) 3-15

2. What is Psychology? Why is Psychology an important part of the TTC?

3. What is Psychology? Psychology is the science that seeks to understand behavior and mental processes, and to apply that understanding in the sevice of human welfare.

4. The subject matter of psychology is behavior and mental processes.

5. Who are you?

6. Part of your behavior and mental processes is the activity of your body cells (bones, muscles, skin, hair, brain, liver, and other organs) and their ability to communicate with one another.

7. Exercise 1 • I’m going to show you a series of pictures. • You’ll need a pencil and a piece of paper. Write down whatever you see. • Do not comment with anyone until the exercise has finished. • I’m going to change the image every 5 seconds

18. In addition to interpreting information, you can think about it and decide how to respond.

19. Exercise 2 • You’re going to read read a series of situations. On a piece of paper write down what you think, how you feel, and how you would react in those situations

20. You see someone standing in front of you with a knife

21. You arrive home and everybody is crying

22. You are watching a movie when all of a sudden your boy/girlfriend starts crying.

23. You see one of your students coming into the classroom in shock

24. How and where was Psychology founded?

25. Greek Philosophers Empiricism, Philosophers Structuralism, Titchener Wilhelm Wundt Psychoanalysis, Freud Psychology Functionalism, William James New approaches biological • Behaviorism, • John Watson • B.F Skinner humanistic evolutionary cognitive psychodynamic behavioral

26. Greek Philosophers Empiricism, Philosophers Structuralism, Titchener Wilhelm Wundt Psychoanalysis, Freud Psychology Functionalism, William James New approaches biological • Behaviorism, • John Watson • B.F Skinner humanistic evolutionary cognitive psychodynamic behavioral

27. Modern Psychology