PSY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Determinism, Marriage Records, Sigmund Freud
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Chapter 1- introduction to psychology: psychology- scientific study of behavior and mental processing, behavioral neuroscience- focuses on how biological parts of the body impact behavior. Why cultural differences exist: evolutionary psychology- considers how behavior is affected by genes from our ancestors. Explains why we have reflexes, adaptions, and phobias revolving around things that were once important but are now irrelevant: behavioral genetics- how traits are inherited vs environmental factors. Ex) nature vs nurture: clinical neuropsychology- focuses on biological origin of psychological disorders, structuralism. Introspection- studies structure of the mind by asking patients what they experience when exposed to stimuli. Studied which areas of the brain are activated by certain stimulus. Because patients had difficulty describing sensation the method was considered unscientific: functionalism. Study of how people adapt to situations and environments a. k. a resiliency: gestalt psychology. Fo(cid:272)uses o(cid:374) the (cid:862)(cid:271)ig pi(cid:272)tu(cid:396)e(cid:863) of the (cid:373)i(cid:374)d a(cid:374)d pe(cid:396)(cid:272)eptio(cid:374)s.
