Lecture 1 MBBS Psychology

What is Psychology

• A branch of science that deals with the mind as an entity and its relationship to the body and to the environmental or social context

• A branch of sociology that is based on behavioural observation

• The study of the unconscious

• A branch of psychiatry that explains how mental illness develops

This French philosopher argued that human sensations and behaviors were based on activity in the nervous system

• Aristotle

• Rene Descartes

• Sigmund Freud

• William James

He was the first person to declare himself a psychologist

• Sigmund Freud

• Albert Ellis

• B.F. Skinner

• Wilhelm Wundt

understanding the mind as the sum of different underlying parts is the definition of

• psychiatry

• psychology

• functionalism

• structuralism

What two schools of thought rely on introspection, or the process of reporting one’s own conscious mental experiences

• structuralism & functionalism

• psychoanalysis and structuralism

• psyhology and psychiatry

• clinical psychology and research psychology

He was the first U.S. psychologist and believed that psychology should look at function and not just structure.

• Wilhelm Wundt

• William James

• Sigmund Freud

• Aristotle

Functionalism is

• the cousin of structuralism

• the study of the way humans function

• a theory that emphasizes the functions of consciousness and the ways consciousness helps people adapt to their environment. ​

• a theory that emphasizes the functionality of the brain in our everyday world

This branch of psychology focuses on Darwinism

• philosophical psychology

• evolutionary psychology

• scientific psychology

• adaptive psychology

mental disorders resulted from conflicts of the unconscious mind. This describes

• all psychology

• behaviourism

• cognitivism

• psychoanalysis

This person founded behaviourism

• watson

• freud

• skinner

• wundt