PSY 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wilhelm Wundt, Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalytic Theory
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Scientific study of human & animal behavior & mental process. Psychiatry: branch of medicine concerned with psychological disturbancescan prescribe medicine to patients. Science: systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Attempts to explain personality, motivation, & mental disorders by focusing on unconscious determinants of behavior. Freud"s idea of unconscious suggests people are not in control of their mind. Proposed that behavior is influenced by how people cope with sexual urges. Controversy: asserted that all behavior is governed by external stimuli. Study the mind like memory and reasoning. Answer questions about racism, genocide, & attitudes. Examines behavioral processes in terms of their adaptive value. Biological psychology: connection between biology and behavior. Neurons- receive information, integrate information, transmit information. Glia: provide structural support for neurons glue . Mirror neurons: in frontal lobe, mirror actions you see of other people. Myelin sheath: sheath is weakened resulting in multiple sclerosis.
