PSYA01H3 Study Guide - Pineal Gland, Evolutionary Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
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Mind: private inner experience, made up of consciousness, perceptions, thoughts, and memories. Behavior: observable actions of human beings and animals. Subjective experiences arise from, electrical and chemical activities. Psychological processes are adaptive: promote welfare and reproduction of organisms. Mind trades accuracy for speed and versatility. All prone to a variety of error and illusions. Nativism certain kinds of knowledge are innate or inborn. Philosophical empiricism: all knowledge required through experience. Mind is what the brain does through pineal gland. Gall: phrenology, theory that specific mental abilities and characteristics, ranging from memory to the capacity for happiness, localized in specific regions of the brain. Physiology: study of biological processes in human body, it measures speed, nerve impulses. Consciousness: person subjective experience of words and mind. Structuralism: analyses of the basic elements that constitute the mind. Introspection: subjective observation of one"s own experience. James believed trying to isolate and analyze a particular moment of consciousness, distorted the nature of consciousness.
