PSY100H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Visual Cortex, Postcentral Gyrus, Long-Term Memory
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Structuralism: conscious experience can be understood by breaking it down into its underlying components. Functionalism: the mind works as it does because it hleps humans adapt to environmental demands. Gestalt: the whole of personal experience cannot be understood by just examining its underlying components. Behaviorism: all behavior is a result of environmental forces, not mental states. Cognitive psychology: born of the cognitive revolution. Concerned with higher-order mental functions (intelligence, thinking, memory, etc) big names george miller. Hypothesize: make a specific prediction of what should be observed in the world it a theory is correct. Operationalize: define theoretical construcs (eg. hunger) in terms of concrete obserbale procedures (e. g number of hours since last meal) Measure: involves collecting data: objective obseravations or measurements. Evaluate: descriptive statistics: summarize data (e. g mean, standard deviation); inferential statistics: determine whether differences actually exist in populations. Revise, replicate, report: exact replication: repeating the identical experiment to confirm results.
