PSYC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Unconscious Mind, Cognitive Revolution

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC100
• Professor: Agnes R.Ly

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Or a product of our environment: mind/body: are the mind and body separate or entangled, experimental psychology i. Breaking down an experience and looking at it part by part. Ex: looking at the parts of a car instead of the car as a whole: functionalism, mind is too complex to be broken down, gestalt i. The whole is so much greater than the sum of its parts: contemporary foundations, freud i. ii. Unconscious mind anything going on with you is in the unconscious. No one has access to it: behaviorist i. ii. iii. Created through the desire to be able to measure things. Ignores the mental processes and just looks at the behavior. Only looks at what can be measured and quantified: cognitive revolution i. ii. iii, social. Dissatisfaction with not knowing why; people got tired only focusing on what could be seen, not the thoughts.