[PSYC 1101] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 13 pages long Study Guide!
6 Feb 2017
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The study of behavior and mental processes: promote the nature vs nurture discussion, scientific psychology. Introduce testable questions in order to draw conclusions ii. Data collection and analysis: testing a hypothesis to conclude, applied psychology i. Clinical practice: taking what we learn in scientific psychology and applying it to the human condition. Governed by dominant perspective and models: defines a field of investigation a. ii. Asking questions in a systematic way: following the rules of science, hypothesis i. People can easily follow your model in order to draw similar outcomes and conclusions: behavior i. Human ethology : the finite number of behaviors the body can exhibit: mental and physiological processes i. Not observable: history of psychology as a science, wilhelm wundt : structuralism, founder of scientific psychology, first research lab : germany, elements of consciousness, sensation, perception and emotion ii. Introspection to understand the nature of consciousness and immediate experience: produced structuralism, behavioral outcomes in response to stimulus iii.
