PS101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cerebral Hemisphere, Ganglion Cell, Unconditional Positive Regard
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Empirical: relying on or derived from observations, experimentation, or measurement, Psychology: the discipline concerned with behaviors and mental processes and how they are affected by an organisms physical state, mental state, and external environment. The term is often represented by the greek letter psi. Psychobabble: pseudoscience and quackery covered by a veneer of psychological and scientific-sounding language. (ie. Occam"s razor: the principle of choosing the solution that accounts for the most evidence while making the fewest unverified assumptions. Hippocrates: (460 bc 377 bc) believed the brain is the ultimate source of our joys, sorrows, pains, laughter, etc. John locke: believed the mind worked by associating idea"s from experience. Phrenology: the now discredited theory that different brain areas account for specific character and personality traits, which can be. First psychological laboratory: established in 1879 in leipzig, Willhelm wundt: (1832 - 1920) trained in medicine and philosophy and wrote many volumes on psychology, physiology, natural history, ethics, and finally logic.
