PSYC1101 Lecture 6: Theories:Perspectives
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Phrenology (franz gall) the study of the shape and size of the cranium as a supposed indication of character and mental abilities. Cognitive perspective study of how mental processes influence behaviour. Advances in psychology are enabled when existing beliefs are questioned/challenged. Biological level brain functioning, hormones, genetic factors shaped by evolution. New diffusion tensor imaging (dti) go in an mri machine but change magnetic pulse. Then can map which move together to map where all ur neurons are in your brain: psychodynamic: searches for causes of behaviour within inner personality with. Freud: some brain processing is outside conscious awareness freud) (supports freud, behaviourism: focuses on the external environment (past experiences and immediate stimuli) as governing our actions primarily. Pavlov: believes people are a blank slate at birth, therefore behaviour is shaped only by the environment, classical conditioning, the unconscious influences behaviour, psychoanalysis analysed internal, unconscious psychological forces. Modern theory: learn by association eg. dogs.
