PS102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Bulimia Nervosa, Cognitive Dissonance, Detection Theory
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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 belief that people(cid:495)s behaviours are based on their unconscious desires and conflicts. 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.
