[PSYC 2510] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (37 pages long)
29 Nov 2016
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Big p - field psychology (academic and professional discipline) Little p - everyday psychology (subject matter that discipline studies) Big p: psych is empirical, psych is theoretically diverse, psych evolves in a sociohistorical context. Rene descartes & mind-body dualsim (17th century: mind is god but body is nature. John locke & associationism (17th century: thoughts are innate. Ideas come from experience: knowledge is matter of the mind getting info from world. William harvey (17th cnetury) & blood circulation: chemical explanations. Johannes muller & hermann von helmholtz (19th century: body of the brain studied systematically, sensory modality stimulated. Charles darwin & evolutionary theory (19th century: humans are part of nature, same natural laws. Wilhelm wundt: perception and sensation, popularized psych in a formal way, measure sensations, stanley hall, started apa and journals. Battle of the schools structuralsim vs. functionalism. Introspections: sensation and perception n vision, hearing, and touch, analyze consciousness into its basic elements and investigate how elements relate.
