PSYA01H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sympathetic Nervous System, Operant Conditioning, Sensory Memory
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Exam guide covers the following topics: altered states of consciousness, habituation and classical conditioning, learning, operant conditioning, learning in the real world, memory, not a singular noun, encoding memory, explicit memory, language, thought. Psychologists were becoming interested in the field of clinical psychology. And they were especially interested in these people who seemed to have physical issues that had no physical cause. So they couldn"t find any reason why these people had the issues they had, and that"s why freud of course is starting to think of psychological conflicts giving rise to physical symptoms. And so what mesmer did at some point is combine that kind of curiosity about mental illness with some new thing that was coming out, and this new thing was magnetism. And so what mesmer did was the following, took big pools of water, stuck magnetic rods in that water to kind of permeate it with magnetic fields and put clinical patients into the water.
