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Psychology 101 (Thursday, 01/12/2006, 5th Period)
{{Class is closed for grading.}}
Jenny stood at the front of the classroom. After the students signed in and took their seats, Jenny started today's lecture. She had coffee available at the front for anyone who wasn't quite awake yet.
"Okay, first off, one thing I forgot to mention on Monday, guys. That's my detention policy. Cause a disturbance in class? Possible detention, depending on the disturbance. Miss two classes? Detention. Unless you have a good reason. Come and talk to me if you do."
{{OOC: In other words, I get that RL can come up in a heartbeat Let me know if it does.}}
"Psychology's one of the youngest of the sciences. Today's going to be fairly easy--we're going to go over some of the most common perspectives on the mind and behavior.
The psychoanalytic perspective was the one founded by Sigmund Freud, the father of modern psychology. In that one? Behavior comes out of the unconscious, and there are drives and conflicts that shape personality. Generally, psychoanalysts take a look at disorders and personality traits in terms of sexual and aggressive desires, plus the disguised effects of unfulfilled wishes, or childhood trauma. In other words? 'Mommy didn't love me enough, and that's why I'm a bad person.'
Behavioral is all about stimulus-response. Nope, I'm not talking about sex, so get your minds out of the gutter, guys. It's about how you learn your different reactions to any situation--fear responses, anger responses, whatever. Also, it's all about how to alter your behavior. And no, we will not be covering behavior modification in any detail in this course, but you will need to learn about both classical and operant conditioning.
Classical conditioning: You ever notice how a cat hears an electric can opener and comes running? That's what it is. Operant conditioning--If I give you a shiny gold star for doing something good, then you're going to do something to get another shiny gold star. Obviously, we're simplifying here.
Cognitive psych is exactly what it says it is. All about thought processes. How do we process, store, and retrieve memories? How do we use the information available to us to solve problems? To reason with? Lots of biology involved, because the brain? Amazingly complicated thing.
Cognitive psych is closely related to biological psych, also known as neuropsychology--which is actually a little bit more focused than biological psych, really. But sometimes people use the two terms interchangeably. How does the body and the brain affect someone's mood and behavior? This is the arena of psych that looks at the happy drugs like Prozac and the not-so-happy-but-useful drugs like Thorazine. Though, really, we've got better anti-psychotics these days.
Next week, we're going to hit psychoanalysis in a little more depth. Why don't you guys start discussing today's subject matter, 'kay? I'm still looking for a TA, if anyone's interested in applying for the job."
{{OOC: OCD comment threadsgoing up shortly are up.}}
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Jenny stood at the front of the classroom. After the students signed in and took their seats, Jenny started today's lecture. She had coffee available at the front for anyone who wasn't quite awake yet.
"Okay, first off, one thing I forgot to mention on Monday, guys. That's my detention policy. Cause a disturbance in class? Possible detention, depending on the disturbance. Miss two classes? Detention. Unless you have a good reason. Come and talk to me if you do."
{{OOC: In other words, I get that RL can come up in a heartbeat Let me know if it does.}}
"Psychology's one of the youngest of the sciences. Today's going to be fairly easy--we're going to go over some of the most common perspectives on the mind and behavior.
The psychoanalytic perspective was the one founded by Sigmund Freud, the father of modern psychology. In that one? Behavior comes out of the unconscious, and there are drives and conflicts that shape personality. Generally, psychoanalysts take a look at disorders and personality traits in terms of sexual and aggressive desires, plus the disguised effects of unfulfilled wishes, or childhood trauma. In other words? 'Mommy didn't love me enough, and that's why I'm a bad person.'
Behavioral is all about stimulus-response. Nope, I'm not talking about sex, so get your minds out of the gutter, guys. It's about how you learn your different reactions to any situation--fear responses, anger responses, whatever. Also, it's all about how to alter your behavior. And no, we will not be covering behavior modification in any detail in this course, but you will need to learn about both classical and operant conditioning.
Classical conditioning: You ever notice how a cat hears an electric can opener and comes running? That's what it is. Operant conditioning--If I give you a shiny gold star for doing something good, then you're going to do something to get another shiny gold star. Obviously, we're simplifying here.
Cognitive psych is exactly what it says it is. All about thought processes. How do we process, store, and retrieve memories? How do we use the information available to us to solve problems? To reason with? Lots of biology involved, because the brain? Amazingly complicated thing.
Cognitive psych is closely related to biological psych, also known as neuropsychology--which is actually a little bit more focused than biological psych, really. But sometimes people use the two terms interchangeably. How does the body and the brain affect someone's mood and behavior? This is the arena of psych that looks at the happy drugs like Prozac and the not-so-happy-but-useful drugs like Thorazine. Though, really, we've got better anti-psychotics these days.
Next week, we're going to hit psychoanalysis in a little more depth. Why don't you guys start discussing today's subject matter, 'kay? I'm still looking for a TA, if anyone's interested in applying for the job."
{{OOC: OCD comment threads
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