PSYC 1010- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 143 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Best learning practices: improve your retention-and your grades! Questions were answered through observation (and guesses) understand the body-psyche relationship. Defined psychology as science of mental life . Added two key elements to enhance scientific nature of psychology. Elements included carefully measured observations and experiments. Defined psychology as scientific study of observable behavior without. Became major force in psychology into 1960s reference to mental processes. Watson and rayner conduced famous little albert experiments conditioning) dismissed introspection. Was second major force until 1960s responses to childhood experiences affect later behavior. Revived interest in study of mental processes. Focused on ways current environments nurture or limit growth potential. Focus returned to interest in mental processes. Cognitive psychology scientifically explored ways in which information is perceived, processed, and remembered. The interdisciplinary field of cognitive neuroscience ties the science of mind (cognitive psychology) and the science of the brain (neuroscience) and focuses on brain activity underlying mental activity.