PSYA01H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Parietal Lobe, Temporal Lobe, Auditory Cortex
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Believed that mind is machine, and that la tabla rassa: empiricism. Measured speed of neural impulse: experiment to hold hands and squeeze until it passed the end. First to refer himself as a psychologist: psych as a science. Functionalism: focus on the purpose of the mental world, not what it looks like. Psychological disease, linked mostly to psychological conflict. Psychoanalysis: promoted cocaine, sexual and aggressive urges. They hated freud because the lack of testable theories: freud does the client feel better, scientists do you have a theory that leads to predictions we can test. Understand the laws underlying our amazing ability to acquire and maintain stable percepts in a noisy world. Counter to freud, on a positive aspect to humanity. Ivan pavlov: shunned discussions of any psychological concept. John b. watson: consciousness, attention, memory, perception, etc. B. f skinner: study of association between stimuli and reaction responses. Biological sciences with how the brain works.
