Evolutionary Psychology

By Miguel D'Addario

Different institutions, theories and psychological systems have focused their endeavors in different areas, existing from the focuses that are centered solely in the observable behavior. (behaviorism), by passing through those which occupy internal processes such as the thought, the reasoning, the memory, etc.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BadPress
• Release date: Jun 22, 2018
• ISBN: 9781547532964

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Evolutionary Psychology | Study, investigation and exercises | Miguel D’Addario | PhD

Evolutionary Psychology | Study, investigation and exercises | Miguel D’Addario | PhD

Evolutionary Psychology

Study, investigation and exercises

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2018

Index

Author

Introduction to psychology

Psychology

Etymology

Scientific field

Research methods in psychology

Scientific organizations in psychology

Psychoanalysis

Behaviorism

Cognitivism

Humanistic psychology

The structuralism

The psychology of Gestalt

Functionalism

Basic psychology

Psychological functions

Psychology of learning

Evolutive or developmental psychology

Psychopathology or psychology of abnormality

Psychology of art

Psychology of personality

Applied psychology

Educational psychology

Child or Child-youth psychology

Social psychology

Industrial or organizational psychology

Psychology of health

Sport psychology

Differences between psychology and psychiatry

Psychology and human development

Theories of development

Influences on development

Stages of development

Object of study in psychology

Methodologies for the study of Psychology

History of psychology

Psychology as part of philosophy

Beginning of experimental psychology

Psychology of the form

Psychology of development

The theory of human development involves three tasks

Stages

Fields of study

Theoretical currents

Sigmund Freud: psychoanalytic theory

Jean Piaget: psychogenetic theory

Psychology of attitudes

The concept of attitude. (Kimball Young)

Origins and meanings of attitudes

Personality

Attitudes and personality

Change of attitude

Attitudes and predictions

Personality

Improvement of personality

Processes of investigation in psychology

Experimental method

Observational method

Method of questionnaires (surveys, tests)

Correlational method

Clinical method

Descriptive study of cases

Case study as the basis of the prognosis

Evolutionary psychology

Understanding evolutionary psychology

The standar model of social science

Back to the basics

Evolutionary psychology

Object and concept

The concept of development

Unconscious imagination

Schizo-paranoid position

Proyection and introjection

Idealization

Denial

Projective identification

Stages of development

Theory of learning

The evolutionary psychology of Jean Piaget

The years reflect knowledge about oneself

The theory of Piaget stadiums

Longitudinal and transversal designs

Differences in research objectives

Different methodological limitations

Limitations 1

Limitations 2

Sequential designs

Techniques in the study of development

Descriptive research and observational techniques

Observation is considered in a double sense

Direct observation

Techniques of observation

Techniques of experimental research

Techniques based on principles of learning

Preferences of stimuli

Conditioning

Modern techniques in the study of development

Neurophysiological techniques

Brain stimulation techniques

Sonographic techniques

Neuroimaging techniques

The conceptual development

Historical evolvement of evolutionary psychology

Stages of evolutionary psychology

Practical exercise No. 1

Practical exercise No. 2

Practical exercise No. 3

Practical exercise No. 4

Practical exercise No. 5

Practical exercise No. 6

Practical exercise No. 7

Practical exercise No. 8

Practical exercise No. 9

Practical exercise No. 10

Practical exercise No. 11

Practical exercise No. 12

Practical exercise No. 13

Practical exercise No. 14

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Author

Miguel D’addario is italian, he was born in Buenos Aires. Degreed in journalism, Master in Social Education, Master in Sociology and PhD in social comunication in the Complutense University of Madrid. He has developed his experience in several areas of teaching, from Vocational training to the Universitary level, both in Latin America and Europe.

His books are found in different centers of studies and libraries worldwide, such as San Pablo University of Peru, University of Santo Domingo Dominican Republic, University of San Gregorio of Ecuador, University of Valencia, National Library of Spain, National Library of Argentina, University of Texas, Complutense University of Madrid, University of Toronto, Canada , University of Deusto, National Autonomous University of Mexico, National University Greater of San Marcos (Peru), University of Illinois, University of Kansas, Libraries of the Community of Madrid, Castile and lion, Andalusia, and Basque Country, British National Library, Harvard University, Library of Congress of the United States.

PhD and essayist, he has received awards and mentions from Writers' Associations, Cultural Centers, Universities, and related offices. Also, as a Speaker, Lecturer and Researcher in Universities, Educational Centers, public and private.

Author of books on philosophy, ontology and metaphysics.

Author of Self-help and Coaching books.

His books are distributed in five Continents, they are assiduously consulted in Libraries around the world, and they are found registered in catalogs, ISBNs and international bibliografic bases.

The books are translated in different languages and they can be found in international bookstores, both in format paper and in electronic version.

Here is a website to know and to acquire other Works of the Autor:

http://migueldaddariobooks.blogspot.com

Introduction to psychology

Psychology

Psy (Ψ), greek lyric, it is commonly associated with psychology. Psychology, (literally means «study or deal with the soul»; from classical greek ψυχή, transliterated psykhé,  <>, <>, <>, and λογία, logy, <> or <>) it is at the same time, a profession, an academic discipline and a science which deals with the study and analysis of behaviours and mental processes in living beings and in human groups in different situations, whose area of study includes all the aspects of the human experience and makes it for aims both in research teachers and labors, among others. There are several psychological perspectives, each one with its own theory and methodology, and in comparison, they can agree, influence, overlap or even being contradictory and incompatible; this variety gives rise to multiple meanings and approaches. Some focuses -like in humanism- consider that the scientific method is not appropriated to investigate about behaviour; others such as the behaviorism which is applied to visible behaviors that can be objectively measured by means of various focuses, psychology explores concepts such as perception, attention, motivation, emotion, functioning of the brain, intelligence, thinking, personality, personal relationships, conscience and unconsciousness. The psychology employs empirical quantitative and qualitative methods of research to analyse the behavior. Also, they can be found especially in the clinic ambit or consultancy, another kind of qualitative and mixed methods. Meanwhile, psychological knowledge is frecuently used in the evaluation or treatment of psychopatologies, over the last decades the psychologists have also been hired in the departments of human resources of organizations, areas related with child development, aging, sports, media, the world of law and forensic sciences. Althought most of psychologists are professionaly involved in therapeutic activities (clinic, consultancy, education), one part is dedicated to researches, from Universities, on a wide rank of topics related with the behavior and the human thinking.

Etymology

The greek term ψυχή (psyche) means «soul», «mind»,

«breath», «life», «cold wind», «cold breath» and it was symbolically represented with a butterfly, whereas λογία (-logy) describes the «speech» or «discurse», «deal» «doctrine», etc.; therefore, psychology literally means «study of the soul» and it denotes the «study of the soul». The Word psychology was used for the first time in the latin language by the christian poet and humanist Marko Marulić, in his book Psichiologia de ratione animae humanae at the end of XV century or at the beginning of XVI, also the artwork of a german autor called Rudolf Göckel is quoted, which published the text Psychologia hoc est de hominis perfectione, anima, ortu (Marburg, 1590). This term was disseminated throughout the Protestant Reformation in Germany and Philippe Melanchthon’s writings, and also it is found the Frech term, for instance, in the text Psichologie ou traicté de l'apparition des esprits, de Noël Taillepied (1588).  In regard to English language, the first reference known as psychology appeared in the Steven Blankaart’s artwork in 1694. This term did not get popularity in the illustrated field but until the use of this one in charge of the German philosopher Christian Wolff, who used it in his Works empirical psychology (1732) and Psychologia rationalis (1734).

Scientific field

Different institutions, theories and psychological systems have focused their efforts in different areas, existing from focuses that are centered solely in the observable behavior. (Behaviorism), by passing through those which occupy internal processes such as the thought, reasoning, memory, etc. (like cognitivism) or orientations which sets the acent in human relationships and humanist thought of postmodernity and in comunication basing on the theory of systems, up to psychologic systems which focus on the unconsious processes (such as psychoanalysis or analitic psychology). The scope of theories emcompass areas or fields that ranges from the study of child development of evolutionary psychology to how living beings feel, perceive or think; how they learn to adapt to the environment that surrounds them or to solve conflicts. For some autors, like those of the Anglo-Saxon academic current of Behavioural sciences, like those of the Anglo-Saxon academic current of Behavioural sciences, the field of research and action of scientific psychology is exclusively the human behavior, distinguishing only three areas: science of behavior, cognitive science and neuroscience. As scientific discipline, it registers the interactions of the personality in three dimensions: cognitive, afective and the behavior. It’s a controversial subject if perhaps other dimensions (such as moral, social and spiritual, including religious beliefs) of human experience form or not part of psychology field, as, also, to what extent the approach of such