PSYCH 111 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Little Albert Experiment, Confounding, Tabula Rasa

• School: U of M
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 111
• Professor: James Hoeffner

Document Summary

Psychology 111 fall 2016 exam 1 review sheet and study guide. This study guide lists the most important terms and topics for each textbook chapter and lecture in order to help you focus your studying. Most of the test questions will come from the textbook readings and the lectures, but some questions may be based on the hock readings as well. All the questions on the exam will be drawn from the items on this review sheet. Empiricism: john locke, tabula rasa(blank slate), theory that knowledge derives from sense-experience. Structuralism: wilhelm wundt(1832-1920), focus on the elements of thoughts, sought to analyze adult mind in terms of the simplest definable components and then to find the way in which these components fit together in complex forms. The method of self-introspection is well used in the structural school. Functionalism: williams james(1842-1910), inspired by darwin and evolution, focus on how conscious is related to behavior instead of the structure of mind.