[PSY 110] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (44 pages long)

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 110
• Professor: Rod Gillis

Document Summary

2 theories as to why we sleep --> 1. 4 reasons why we may dream --> 1. Synthesis hypothesis: problem solving hypothesis, memory consolidation. 6 approaches to psychology --> a. psychoanalytic (freud: behavioral (watson, skinner, gestalt (k hler, wertheimer, humanistic (maslow, rogers, cognitive, biological/ medical/ physiological. Adaptive nonresponding --> since we do not have vision at night, we do not need to stay up. Aerial perspective --> in the distance, things become hazier. Area under the normal curve --> 34%, 14%, 2%, 0. 13% Behavioral approach --> response in muscles and glands to external stimuli. Behaviorism --> study of behavior that focuses on the relationship between environmental events and an organism"s behavior. Difference in image location as seen by either eye --> https://o. quizlet. com/qkkvm. vomtpt7hapx3tjbg_m. jpg. Biological/ medical/ physiological approach --> every feeling we have is a chemical phenomenon. Branches of statistics --> a. descriptive: inferential. Brightness constancy --> eyes adjust to see white paper in less light.