PSY 120 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Guanine, Psychoanalysis, Occipital Lobe
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Relies on critical thinking: ask questions, define terms, examine evidence, analyze assumptions and biases, don"t oversimplify, avoid emotional reasoning, tolerate uncertainty, consider other interpretations. Note: these are the topics we covered in the lectures. However, to maximize your grade, you should study all of the content in your relevant textbook chapters, including topics not covered in class. Definition of psychology: study of the human mind and behavior. Definition of conspecifics (members of own species) Types of therapists: clinical, counselling, and educational psychologists. Beginnings of experimental psychology: year, place, person. Providing health or mental health services (psychological practices) Basic: to gain knowledge for its own sake, no practical significance. 1879, leipzig (germany), wilhelm wundt: structuralism titchener. Describe the structure of conscious experience, or the mind. Related to psychophysics (relationships btwn phusical stimuli and mental experience: no trained introspection in psychophysics, functionalism william james. Identify function of the mind and behaviour (asking why?)
