PSY 105 Study Guide - Final Guide: Neuron, Sociobiology, Wilhelm Wundt

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And have developed a lot of hypothesis and theories to explain a variety of events: prediction: psychologists also seek to predict the circumstances under which a specific mental process or behavior are likely to occur. you remember from class), control: liming or increasing certain behaviors (e. g. limiting unhealthy stress or how to increase what. How the brain structure and the brain cell activity differ from person to person and situation to situation. How the social and cultural environments shape behavior. What are the patterns of brain activation as people interact with. History of psychology: plato (428 bc 347bc, aristotle (384 bc 322 bc, nativism: the philosophical view that certain kinds of knowledge are innate or inborn, tabula rasa: blank slate, philosophical empiricism: the philosophical view that all knowledge is gained through experience, he also searched for the basic purpose of all objects and creatures.