CAS PS 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Retina, Ct Scan, Parallax

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Yvonne Wakeford

Document Summary

For exams- certain names have to know* don"t need dates, just time concepts. Psych- science that studies behavior and the physiological (heart beating fast) and cognitive processes (anything that goes on in the brain- planning, thinking, memory) that underlie it, profession that applies accumulated knowledge of the science to practice problems. Applied research- conduct research to understand why something happens ex) studying autism and why it occurs. Mypsychlab. com run up to date tune up register course id (yellow sheet) Greek philosophers worked with problems that modern psychologists are still trying to figure out- (free will, memory, learning, motivation, perception) Dualism- assumption that body and mind are separate, through interacting entities. Descartes- interaction takes place in the pineal gland in the brain. Monism- the mind and body are one and that the mind is not separate spiritual identity. All human experiences are physical, coming from the brain.