Friday, January 21, 2011

psychodynamic approach

            I learned that that if you were to do a survey in any western country, asking people who had never taken psychology to name a psychologists, you would likely get more people responding Freud than any other figure past or present.
           Psychoanalysis was the first psychodamic theory and motivation psychodamic theories assume the behavior is motivated by mental processes and personality see the behavior as part of a coherent whole.
Psychic determinism assumption made by freud which states that all behavior has a cause and that the cause is to found i n the mind.
           And I learn also that dreams operate in two levels the manifest and the latent content manifest content is symbolic that created out of original forms by the dreams censor, for ex. of the dreams is the reality dreams, A person can experience very realistic events in his dream..
          And the self analysis represent a potentiary endeavour , both personality and as theorotical validation. example th literature of self analyusis indicates that it is desirable process to cultivate postanalytically...

cognitive approach

            I learned  that cognitive approach is concerned with understanding the thinking processes that underlie our actions.Unlike the behaviorists cognitive psychologists believe that one cannot fully explain behavior in terms of stimulus response connections. Mediator described as mediational processes because they come between the stimulus and the response, for ex. describing the process of memory without concern  for its physical basis. And the Insight a sudden change in  the way one organizes a problem situation, for ex. a child solving a problem discrimination problem can show insight, as mentioned above.
            Difference of Learning and Memory...
Learning for the cognitive psychologists it involves both gathering information and organizing it into mental schemata. While the memory is the retention and use of prior learning. And it can recall our memory for the active retrieval of information, ex. of recall now you can remembered what happened  and even if many weeks past you can recall on your mind for what happen. And I learned also that A Basic Model of Memory is the information processing approach has led to a model of memory which is based on a computer analogy.
1. Sensory memory- for ex. visual sensory memory lass less than a second, but auditory sensory memory can last up three or four seconds.
2. Short-term memory- refers to retention our brief intervals usually 15 seconds os so.
3. Long-term  memory- refers to retention over relatively long period hours, days, weeks or longer.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Behaviorist Approach

           I learned that behaviorist approach emphasizes the rule of environmental stimuli in determining the way use act in large measure this means focusing on learning.Learning is a changes in behavior which occur as the result of experience.There are two kinds of learning first Classical conditioning-when natural reflects responds to a stimulus. And the operant conditioning-when response to a stimulus is reinforce.
           I learned also that schedule reinforcement early in his research, skinner recognized that in everyday life we rarely experience either true extinction. There are four types of reinforcement.
1. Fixed Ratio Schedule- provide the reinforcement of response.
2. Variable Ratio- ex. of this the schedule in everyday life is the operation of slot machine like lotto.
3. Fixed Interval- ex. receiving a salary on fixed dates such as every 15th or 30th of each month.
4. Variable Interval- it provides reinforcement for the first responses after some period of time but the amount of time are varies.
          And I learned that Neal Miller contributed to many aspects of psychology over a length career. He worked on developing selection procedures for aircrew during World War11, collaborated with John Dillard on a behaviorist translation of Freudian concepts, and did pioneering work in learning and neuroscience.
          Miller describe the process as learned operant control of autonomic responses or autonomic conditioning it is called learned operant control of autonomic responses to our heart rate or blood pressure , for example  when we involving the autonomic nervous system there is little or no proprioceptive feedback.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

the important of the body and brain.

the brain and nervous system are made up of a number of specific structures, which much function as an integrated system to regulate behaviour. The nerve pathway outside the central nervous system form the peripheral nervous system, Sensory neurons in the PNS carry messages from the outside  world to the CNS via the sense receptors, such as those located in the eyes and ears, while motor neurons are responsible for initiating muscle,activity, under the direction of the CNS. The neurons which comprise the CNS are called interneurons, because they are intermediate between sensory and motorneurons.
  I learned that brain is very important to us to function our emotional, physical and psychological.many of us use right handed hand which the functioning of the brain is left and when we use the left handed hand the functioning of the brain is right.
And I learned also that the effects of drugs like stimulants is a very dangerous to us because it can increase our heartbeat and blood pressure. We know that many of us use drugs to forget our problem and to become a powerful and energetic body but it is not good to our body and maybe we can die if we always taking drugs.