PS101- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 13 pages long!)
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Asking questions: curious and asking questions about humans and animals, infants: signs and observations: crying ( guring out the system) Psychology"s beginnings: psychology=philosophy, no unique domain of psychology, fundamental questions: philosophy were the ones arguing about what it is to be human , Alive , an to experience things : science and psychophysics, encouraged empirical examination (questions. hypothesis, testing) -< this is where it shifted to science. Hippocrates: 4 humors, de ne personality, character, health, choleric-yellow bile (determined quick to act, ery, energetic, passionate, sanguine-blood (warm hearted, outgoing, cheerful, phlegmatic- phlegm (slow, menochonic - black bite. Immediate consciousness believed that all experiences could be reduced to basic elements. Like other sciences, we could reduce to simpler elements. His goal was to de ne and explain the structure of conscious experience. Used introspection: understanding how you approach and interpret things in the environment. Perception of visual stimuli, touch and hearing. A primary motivator for actions and decisions (voluntarism: makes you act voluntarily)
