[PSY 105] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 43 pages long Study Guide!
7 Feb 2017
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Na ve realism: the belied that we see the world precisely as it is, making assumptions because they"re intuitive. Psychology: the scientific study of the mind, brain and behaviour, in an attempt to understand, predict and in some cases control human behaviour. Five main challenges of psychology: behaviour is difficult to predict, actions are multiply determined, predictors are rarely independent, with multiply determined factors, those factors in turn influence each, people are different from one another other as well. Physiology and psychophysics: muller advocated for study of the relationship between physical stimuli and their psychology effects, von helmholtz measures and discovered the speed of neural impulses were not instantaneous. The early days of psychology: wilhelm wundt, father of psychology, focused on the study of consciousness. Functionalism: william james, set up the first psychology lab in the us at harvard, wrote the first textbook, functionalism the flow of consciousness.
