PSY 121 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sexual Orientation, Language Development, Cognitive Dissonance

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What is psychology: the study of human behaviour, and understanding behaviour and mental processes. It explores an individuals physical state, mental state, and surrounding environment and how it effects their behaviour. What is critical thinking: helps people evaluate competing findings on psychological issues that are personally and socially important. The critical thinker asks questions, defines terms clearly, examines the evidence, analyze assumptions and biases, avoids emotional reasoning, avoids oversimplification, considers alternative interpretations, and tolerates uncertainty. How and when did psychology become a formal discipline: hippocrates studied psychology in 400 bc, wilhelm wundt established a laboratory in. What did phrenology teach us about modern psychology: made valid observations but without the use of empirical evidence, they began making serious errors. Phrenology was the study of the mind, and how the skull determined their personality characteristics. Three early schools of psychology: structuralism: wundt and tichner- focused on immediate conscious experience, attempting to pinpoint consciousness.

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