[01:830:101] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 18 pages long Study Guide!

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Keiko Brynildsen

Document Summary

The diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. A collection of theories to explain human behavior. The use of dream analysis (while patients lie on a couch) to uncover people"s unconscious thoughts. The scientific study of thought behavior, and emotion. How social cultural forces shape individuals behavior. How physical systems (brain circuits) affect behavior, feelings, thoughts. Everything we do is traced back to something in the brain. Behavior (pacifist family, rough childhood) (dylan klebold, eric harris) Socrates[plato,aristotle (what is consciousness) (do we have free will) How - william james - functionalism: the study of how the mind works. Birds of a feather flock together (similarity is attractive) Hindsight bias: easy to go back and realize if you know the answer. Formulate the hypothesis -testable prediction about the relationship b/w variables or conditions under which event will occur. Design the study to test the hypothesis. Operational definition: statement about the procedures the researcher used a variable.