PS102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Depth Perception, Auditory Cortex, Umami
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Unconscious: hypothesized repository of thoughts, feelings, and sensations outside human awareness: thought in some theories to have a strong bearing on human behaviour, state where information is not easily accessible to conscious awareness. The (cid:271)elief that people(cid:859)s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iou(cid:396)s a(cid:396)e (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) thei(cid:396) u(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious desi(cid:396)es a(cid:374)d (cid:272)o(cid:374)fli(cid:272)ts. Freud developed psychoanalysis, that aimed to resolve unconscious conflicts. Psychoanalytic theory: psychological theory that human mental processes are influenced by the competition among unconscious forces to come into awareness. Behaviourism: branch of psychological thought arguing that psychology should study only directly observable behaviours rather than abstract mental processes. Early behaviourists tended to focus on relationships between stimuli and responses. Stimuli: elements of the environment that trigger changes in our internal or external states. Responses: the way we react to stimuli. Edward thorndike: proposed research findings from the study that animals could help explain human behaviours.
