PSYC 1010- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 54 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: ronsheese

Document Summary

Antonio damasio"s looking for spinoza: joy, sorrow, and the feeling brain. Course overview and goals (see course outline on website) Form groups of four and discuss items on handout. One person should record the gist of the comments made in the group and hand in these minutes at the end of the discussion. Posting a response to one of the discussion questions. Outline of comments on chapters 1 and 2 of moghaddam"s book: Falsifiability what evidence would be needed for an idea to be disproved . Structuralism, behaviourism, psychoanalysis, gestalt, cognitive, (m p8, table 1) Science of thinking and activity, mental life and overt behavior (m p6) Scientific study of the mind and behaviour of humans and animals. Predict and control behaviour - understand, explain, change. Science which seeks to describe and explain the behaviour and. A method rather than a set of facts. Fechner, weber example (m p9) low df. Regularities in thought and action related to culture.