PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Behavior Modification, Eating Disorder, Anxiety Disorder
2 Feb 2013
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The different school of thoughts: structuralism, wilhelm wundt, 1879, conscious experience can be broken down into its basic underlying components/ elements, functionalism, william james, mind, more complex than its elements. Level of mental processes below conscious awareness: psychoanalysis. Free association: patients talk what they want and for as long as they want. > reveal unconscious -> show conflict: but other theory (e. g. meaning of dream) Extremely difficult to prove: behaviorism, john b. watson (american, 1913, want to observe sth observable (not mental activities, emphasize the role of environmental forces in producing behavior, nature/ nurture question. All nurture: cognitive psychology, george a. miller, 1957, the study of how people think, learn & remember. Decision making: lead to cognitive neuroscience in 1990s, social psychology, how people is affected by their social worlds, the relationship between group dynamics & psychological processes, significant grow of no. of psychologist in the stream, ww2.
