PSYC 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Wilhelm Wundt, Edward B. Titchener, Karl Lashley

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

Document Summary

Psychology: the scientific study of behaviour and mental processes. Functionalism: advocated by william james and influenced by darwin, functionalism focuses on how behaviours function to allow people and animals to adapt to their environment. Psychoanalytic theory: unconscious mental processes shape feelings, thoughts, and behaviours. Cognitive psychology: the scientific study of how perception, thought, memory, and reasoning are processed. The deep level genes, brain, neuro-transmitters, survival, reflexes, sensation: psychology. In the middle thought, emotions, moods, choices, behaviours, traits, motivation, knowledge, perceptions: social. The outer level environment: social influences, culture, education, relationships. To what extent are our traits already set in place at birth (nature) To what extent do our traits develop in response to our environment/experience (nurture) Knowledge is acquired and ideas are formed on the basis of sensory experience. Senses smelling, seeing, hearing, tasting, perception. No innate ideas, innate knowledge: empirical methods. A way of doing research that emphasizes finding evidence through the scientific method (ex: experiments)