PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, Near-Death Experience, Sleep Deprivation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

Document Summary

Exam will be held in montpetit gym. Based on entire course content for psy1101. These quizzes can also be found in the study guide. Also, be aware of definitions(found in columns in each chapter. Also know terms and concepts to remember found at the end of each chapter. This review is only a summary of material not yet seen in the lectures. The mind at birth is a blank slate. The mind acts only on what enters through the senses. Science should be based on experience and experiments. Introspection, structuralism: attempted to discover the basic structures of the mind/consciousness (analogous to the basic elements in chemistry). Freud; role of the unconscious in determining our behaviour. Dismissed the study of the unconscious through introspection or psychoanalysis as unscientific. Logic (aristotle and plato maintained that all knowledge can be logically deduced) Many critics of psychology as a science claim it need not be studied at all.