PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Hermann Ebbinghaus, Immanuel Kant, Wilhelm Wundt

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 101
• Professor: Professor Berg

Document Summary

What happens: behavioral data, reports of observations about behavior, and conditions under which behavior occurs or changes, explanations look to explain how behavior works, most behavior is influenced by a combination of factors: Interested in sensation and perception, as well as the time-course of mental: wrote the principles of psychology respected as one of the most influential texts ever written in the field. Concerned with issues such as brain function, consciousness, attention, memory, sensation and perception, reasoning: behavior is explained in terms of: Attempts to resolve conflict: focus is on the unconscious, the main purpose is to reduce tension linked to: Developed psychodynamic model for explaining the principles of. Freud believed that human nature may be driven by unconscious motives. Difficult to replicate accounts of the unconscious mind. Makes claims about powerful, instinctual drives which can easily be misinterpreted when out of context: behaviorist perspective, primarily concerned with observable behavior that can be objectively recorded o, analyze: