PSYCH 111 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Peripheral Nervous System, Autonomic Nervous System, Parasympathetic Nervous System
Document Summary
Provides understanding and an explanation to the causes of behavior. Allows for the prediction of behaviors/reactions across situations. Allows for the control of behavior by understanding its causes and consequences. De ned consciousness as a person"s subjective experience of the world and mind. Established the rst psychological laboratory in leipzig, germany. Explores the relationship between the basic elements of consciousness. Built on principles of introspection and consciousness but instead based his idea on the why and the adaptive reasons for what and how we perceive (the why behind a person"s thinking and consciousness) Study of the functions of consciousness in enabling people to adapt to their environment. Applies darwin"s theory of natural selection to the mind. Identi ed the role of unconscious forces that determines our thoughts, feelings, urges, behavior that in turn determines our personality. Believed the con ict between good and bad can lead to anxiety. Freudian slip: when the unconscious is accidentally revealed.
