Danielle Stoddard, LCPC

Danielle Stoddard, LCPC • PCHS • IVCC • Bachelors of Psychology, Eastern Illinois University • Masters of Educational Psychology and Guidance, Eastern Illinois University

Why Psychology??? • Why do people do what they do? • Get sad at certain times of year • What are their stories, everyone has a story, what influences them? Past history, childhood, traumatic event • How can I help them?

Intro • Syllabus • Projects • Schedule • Activity • Start lesson

Projects • Operant Conditioning project • Typed in a paper fully answering each question and detailing each step. The paper should be at least 3-5 pages long. Double spaced. E-mail me a picture I can then show the class. Also a video would be fun to show everyone. Let me know a date you would like to present it. This would add to the score of the project. • Teach your pet/animal to respond to a stimulus they would not normally respond to • Favorite song • Household noise • When your parent/sibling/self does something, gets a soda, takes out garbage • Behavior needs to be complex, the animal, goes to a certain spot, high fives, spins a wheel

Projects • Mental health paper • 3-5 pages long • Full detail of disorder • Full detail of a person that suffers from it. If you would like to share about a person you know with this issue, it is completely confidential • You may interview a person that has it and use as a reference, you may also interview a therapist that treats this disorder and use as a resource • Make sure you let me know what disorder you are reporting on

Projects • Dream Diary • Make sure the dreams are written in a good amount of detail. At least a paragraph or two, the diary as a whole should be 10 – 15 pages long after answering the questions.

PSYCHOLOGY THE SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF BEHAVIOR AND MENTAL PROCESSES

What is Psychology • Scientific study of behavior and mental processes • What are your thoughts of what Psychology is?? • Charlie Sheen video

Why do we study psychology? • To describe • To predict • To explain • To change our behavior and experience • To make sound decisions • To help people

GOALS • To gain understanding and tolerance • To prepare for times that will be both good and bad, and all points between

Psychology in Use • Enhancing performance

What do psychologists do? • Explore biopsychology Brain trauma Drugs - neurotransmitters Genetics Evolutionary influences

Study our cognitive capabilities and processes. • How do we think and acquire knowledge? • How can we treat learning disabilities? • How can we control our “self talk”?

Study human development • When should we able to perform various tasks? • What is the process of our development- from conception to death. • What causes things to go wrong

Social psychology • The study of the influences we exert on one another. • Persuasion. • The intersection of law and psychology. the jury system the death penalty

Industrialorganizational • Using psychology in the work setting • How do employers select, train and pay their employees • How do we get people to buy our products

Professionals • Counselors who listen and treat • Psychiatrists who can prescribe • Psychoanalysts who analyze

Psychology as a Major? • Suitable for many purposes • Employment – Without a Master’s With a Master’s • P.H.D. programs • Women - the new majority? • Professional schools • Typical classes

The history of psychology • From the dawn of time ….. • The Bible – Proverbs • The Greeks tragedies Aristotle- observation and rational analysis

History of Psychology • 130 years • Wilhelm Wundt, Father of Psychology • Did experiments, research • Objective Introspective • Measuring one’s own thoughts and mental activities

Structuralism • Titchner • Structure of the Mind • Introspect, think of a town devastated by a tornado, what do you see, think, feel

Functionalism • William James, taught at Harvard, first American school to offer PSY classes • How did we get there • How did we adapt • Modern fields of Educational Psychology and Industrial/organizational psychology

Gestalt Psychology • The Whole is the sum of its parts • Focused on perception and sensation, seeing patterns as a whole • Cognitive therapy • Learning • Memory • Thought process • Problem solving

Frued • Unconscious, repressed memories • Personality was formed in first 6 years of life • Psychoanalysis

Behaviorism • Pavlov • Taught reflex • Watson • Taught a Phobia

History-behaviorism • Experience? Thoughts? Emotions? • In response to frustration with animal IQ studies and the vague nature and unsettling assumptions of psychodynamics • GOAL – to observe and quantify without inferences • FOCUS – use animals to uncover the basic laws of learning and behavior

The scientific study of behavior • Wide scope • Emphasis on evidence acquired through the methods of science

Big Questions • Do we have Free Will? • Do we really make decisions or are we just playing out a script? Chaos Sin Crime

beyond behaviorism • Albert Ellis – the power of irrational thinking – self talk • “I must be approved or loved by every significant person in my community” • “If I’m not thoroughly compe- tent in everything I do, I’m worthless.”

Psychology Now • Psychodynamic Perspective • Development of a sense of self and discovery of motivations behind a person’s behavior • Behavioral Perspective • BF Skinner, Operant Conditioning • Behavioral responses are followed by pleasure/reward

Psychology Now • Humanistic Perspective • People have free will to choose their own destiny • Maslow & Rogers • Self understanding & Self actualization • Cognitive Perspective • How people think, remember, store, and use information

Psychology Now • Sociocultural Perspective • Others influence our behavior • Biopsychological Perspective • Behavior linked to genetics, hormones, nervous system • Evolutionary Perspective • Universal mental characteristics that all humans share

How important is psychology? • Abu Ghraib

Danielle Stoddard, LCPC