PSYCH 101- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 62 pages long!)

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Toni Serafini

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Immediate experiences: the focus is on the basic elements, or structures, of mental processes. Inner workings of the mind; direct conscious experiences and breaking it down. Important canadian contributions by brenda milner and donald hebb (mcgill: who are psychologists, study all aspects of life, diverse areas of focus (ex: research, teaching, clinical work, clinical psychologists vs. John b. watson concluded that children should be (cid:271)(cid:396)ought up usi(cid:374)g a (cid:862)s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tifi(cid:272)(cid:863), st(cid:396)i(cid:272)tl(cid:455)-scheduled, rules- based model: major theoretical perspectives in psychology. Limited- does not answer all our questions: psychodynamic, behaviourist, humanistic, cognitive, biopsychological, social, cultural, evolutionary, psychodynamic perspective, sigmund freud, proposed that unconscious mental processes direct behaviour, therapeutic technique: psychoanalysis, focuses on our energy, and pleasure, behaviourism. John watson: rejected study of contents of consciousness, focused on measuring only what is observable, focuses on environment to shape behaviour, humanistic perspective, developed by carl rogers and abraham maslow.