PSY 1101 Study Guide - Humanistic Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Biopsychosocial Model
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Psychology is a science that seeks to answer all sorts of questions about us all: how we think, feel and act. r and anything an organism does- any. Psychology as the scientific study of behaviour and mental processes. Examples: yelling, smiling, blinking, sweating, talking, and questionnaires. Mental processes are the internal, subjective experiences we infer from behaviour. Examples: sensations, perceptions, dreams, thoughts, beliefs and feelings. Socrates (469-399 bc) and his student plato (428- 348 bc) concluded that the mind is separate from the body and continues after the body dies and that knowledge is innate- born with us. Aristotle (384-322 bc) had a love for data. Rene descartes (1595-1650) agreed with socrates and plato about the existence of innate ideas and the mind"s being entirely distinct from the body and able to survive its death: believed some things are innate.