PS101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cognitive Test, Sigmund Freud, Positive Psychology
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Critical thinking: use of cognitive skills & strategies that increase the probability of a desired outcome. 3: thoughts, memories, desires, have great influence on behaviour, unique qualities of humans, freedom, potential for personal growth. 1st lab & journal: founder of psychology, said psychology should be modelled after physics & chemistry. William james: functionalism, natural selection, consciousness is an important characteristic of humans. 1st woman to receive phd is psychology: authored a book that led to behaviourism. Leta hollingworth: children"s intelligence, woman are not inferior to men. John b. watson: behaviourism, what we can directly observe, scientific method & what we can verify, s-r (stimulus-response) psychology. Ivan pavlov: how stimulus- response bonds are formed, rise of animal research, made dogs salivate at the sound of a whistle. Sigmund freud: focus on sex, unconscious determinants of behaviour, psychoanalysis. B. f. skinner: radical behaviourism, environmental factors mold behaviour, actions aren"t a result of consciousness.
