PSY 105 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Standard Deviation, Karl Lashley, Ketamine

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 105
• Professor: Kristin Vickers

Document Summary

Aristotle: you don"t have that natural knowledge. Psychology is the scienti c study of mental processes and behaviour. When studying why a certain behaviour or mental process occurs, one can study the in uences of: Many myths and ceremonies developed as a way to describe, explain, predict, and control reality. Throwing someone in the water - if they oat this would mean that they"re a witch. Philosophy is the study of knowledge and reality. Medicine also contributed: hippocrates developed one of the rst psychological theories: Hippocrates was later proven to be wrong, but his theory on neurotransmitters were correct. Aristotle thought that the purpose of the brain was to cool the blood, and all of your thinking and mental processes came from the heart (unlike hippocrates who thought it was from your brain) Willhelm wundt (you don"t need to know rst names) Established rst psychology lab in 1879 (you need to know dates only when provided on slides)