PSY 101 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Working Memory, White Dog, Vivid (Band)
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Psychology term was introduced in the 1700"s: comes from the greek word psyche which means soul or mind. Ology means the study of something: originally described as a branch of philosophy studying the phenomena of mental life. Your thoughts, emotions, memory, types of behavior. Philosophers began to believe that these types of study weren"t really. Philosophy : the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Mental processes - unobservable aggressive? : thoughts or cognitions, feelings/emotions, cognitive-behavioral model (why people do the things they do) Thoughts, feelings, and behaviors: all affect each other (thoughts affect behavior, etc. , depression > from negative thoughts > decreasing pleasant activities. Watson and skinner: wanted psychology to be only studied by observable behavior. Nativism v empiricism: wilhelm wundt & structuralism. German physiologist who established the first psychology lab at the uni. Regarded as the founder of experimental psychology as an academic discipline. Believed the mind could not be broken down into component elements (structuralism)
