PSY 120 Study Guide - Final Guide: Pineal Gland, Striatum, Psychological Trauma
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Psychology ( ): behaviour and mental processes and how they are affected by physical state, mental state, and external environment. Behaviour: observable actions, outer sign of an inner reality; importance of individual in the broad context; role of unobservable mental processes in behaviour. Goals of psychology: describe accurately what happens; use different levels of analysis, explaining what happens; internal and external factors, predicting what happens, controlling what happens; prevention and intervention, ultimate goal: influencing behaviour. Evolution of modern psychology: schools of thought, structuralism: analysis of immediate experiences into basic elements. Wilhelm wundt, edward tichener, and james mark baldwin. Wundt was first to announce that should be a science since his laboratory findings were published in a scholarly article. Systematic explanation of individual reports on their own thoughts and feelings about sensory experiences: gestalt psychology. The whole is greater than, and different from the sum of its parts. Max wertheimer: functionalism: purpose of behaviour and consciousness.
