PSYC 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cognitive Revolution, Conversion Disorder, Scatter Plot
13 Oct 2016
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1. 2 how psychology became a science: the initial attempt to link a brain-based injury to a change in behaviour marked the first step toward the study of psychology. Galen believed people would have combinations of the four. Tuesday, november 3, 2015: because of the dark ages, psychology had no growth again until the 1800"s due to the beliefs of the time. Zeitgeist - a general set of beliefs of a particular culture at a speci c time in history: materialism - the belief that humans, and other living beings, are composed exclusively of physical matter. Accepting this means we are nothing more than complex machines that lack a self- conscience. Influences from evolutionary theory: the adaptive functions of. Led him to develop the theory psychoanalysis - approach that attempts to explain how behaviour and personality are in uenced by unconscious processes.
