PSYCH101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Harry Harlow, Psychodynamics, Unconscious Mind

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Behaviour: actions that humans engage in (what humans do, how they behave towards each other) Cognition: the various mental processes that we engage in. When investigating aggression, study the interactions between the person, environment, person and the environment. The interaction between the person and the environment produces behaviour and results in an outcome. Psychodynamic: action is taking place in the unconscious mind. Freud believed human experience and behaviour come from a person"s unconscious mind. Eros vs. phanytos (life force vs. death wish): eros is the evolutionary force that moved human species forward, phanytos was counter-evolutionary force that moved human evolution backwards. Behavioural: the real action takes place outside of the individual, in the observable human behaviour. The interaction between the environment and the human; believed that human behaviour was influenced by the environment. Focused on human behaviour rather than what was going on inside the individual. Studied stimulus-response (how individuals reacted to the environment)