ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Psychophysics, Historical Method, Drive Theory
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_mesmerism: mesmerism is the act of non-verbally using a trance-like state and shifting the energy field within a client. Humanistic psychology opposed to behaviourism and psychoanalysis - stressed that people are human, inherently positive, endowed with free will and living within a socio- cultural context. Realism view within philosophy that human knowledge tries to reveal real properties of the outside world, the truth of knowledge is determined by the correspondence of the knowledge with the real world. Structuralism the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific investigation of the responses of individuals to stimuli in controlled situations. _determinism (assumption that any state of an object or event is determined by prior states) _operational definition (tolman & hull - implies that a concept be defined in terms of concrete, observable procedures. _evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. These characteristics are the expressions of genes that are passed on from parent to offspring during reproduction.
