PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Dissociative Identity Disorder, Central Nervous System, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
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How many from where (representativeness generalizability: data collection. What data are you going to collect. Founding fathers of psychology are wilhem wundt and william james. Rationalism: the pursuit of truth through reason and logic, used by ancient greek philosophers. Materialism: believes that the mind is purely part of the physical world. Empiricism: the belief that people can describe the world through rules generated by observation, quantification, questions concerning the relationship between mind and body, psychophysics. Measures the relationship between changes in magnitude of a stimulus and our sensation of the stimulus change in magnitude. Structuralism: analyzing complex phenomena and breaking them into smaller parts that are easier to understand. Determinism: believes behaviour is the result of prior events. Functionalism: examine behaviours, traits, and perceptions by asking what are they for , based on darwinian thinking. Physiological psychology: the psychology of behaviour, for example how drugs act on the part of the brain that controls pleasure.
