PSY 1001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cerebellum, Color Vision, Peripheral Vision

• School: Temple University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1001
• Professor: Nitasha Strait

Document Summary

Thoughts: structuralism - structure of the mind. Influence on modern fields of edu. /evol. /indust. /org. psychology. Good is > sum of its parts (law of simplicity) Unaware (dream-state) mind where we repress our conscious. Watson & pavlov & skinner & mary jones. / memory, perception, intelligence, prob. solv. , learning. / characteristics of how mind works/ adaptive/survival. Scientific method: ask question, form hypothesis, test hypothesis (research, draw conclusions, report results (success/failure?) Observing ind. in a controlled environment w/ specific tools. Studying ind. in grave detail/ analysis. Confidential questioning/obs. done on a small/large scale population. Protection of the rights/well being of participant, Dont know what type of treatment they"re receiving. (how info gets into body) neural activity. Each sensory nerve has own ind. function (optic=encode. Change blindness: light, auditory=encode sound etc. ) Sensory adaptation ( in body ): exposure (ex. ringing noise that you tune out) Change/decr. in receptor sensitivity in presence of cont. in order to detect)