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Watson: behaviourism: scientific psychology should study only observable behaviour: scientific verifiability, stimulus-response psychology. Wundt: 1879: first research lab: study of consciousness. Gestalt psych: continue to study conscious rather than overt behaviour. Freud: psychoanalysis conscious awareness; exert influence: unconscious contains thoughts, memories, desires below surface of, psychoanalytic theory attempts to explain personality, motivation, and mental disorders by focusing on unconscious determinants of behaviour. Major problem is dependence on self-report data sampling bias descriptive stats: organize and summarize data: advantage is gives researchers way to explore shit experiments cant, central tendency. Median: score that falls exactly in center of scores. Neurons are individual cells in the nervous system that receive, integrate, and transmit information. Glia cells in nervous system provide structural support, nourishment and insulation for neurons. Soma: cell body; contains the cell nucleus and much of the chemical machinery common to most cells. Dendrites are the parts of a neuron that are specialized to receive information.
