PSYC-001 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sensory Cortex, Sensory Neuron, Detection Theory

• School: Georgetown University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC-001
• Professor: Parrott W.Gerrod

Document Summary

Structuralism: an early school of thought prompted by wilhelm wundt and titchener; used introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind. An attempt to explain the mind by its many parts (the senses). Proven to be unreliable b/c results varied among people. Dualism: ren e descartes; mental processes are totally different than biological processes. Monism: materialism; thomas hobbes; only one kind of matter, which was physical matter; altering physical structure changes mental processes) All schools of psychology structuralism, functionalism, behaviorism, freudian psychology, humanistic psychology, modern psychology, cognitive neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, behavioral genetics, and positive psychology. Hindsight bias: i knew it all along; the tendency to believe after learning the outcome that one would have foreseen it. Human"s tendency to perceive patterns in events make us overestimate our intuition. Correlation: a measure of the extent to which two factors vary together and thus how well either factor produces the other.