The area in which Hemet is located was first inhabited by members of the Cahuilla Indian tribe. Then, in the early 1800's, it became a cattle ranch for Mission San Luis Rey and was called Rancho San Jacinto.
As the founder of the newest modern emerging branch, Martin Seligman utilizes this TED talk to discuss how positive psychology is revolutionizing the field by moving beyond a focus on mental illness and shifting towards examining human healthy states, including happiness and optimism.
People like Sigmund Freud popularized the psychodynamic approach, and still others will focus on sociocultural influences to explain mental processes and behavior. The focus of this lesson will be on a different approach from all of these, one that most people don't initially associate with psychology: biology. The biological approach to psychology is one way to conceptualize and explain the human experience. The biological approach seeks to explain mental processes and behavior by focusing on the function of the nervous system at the cellular and structural level.