PSY 201 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Decision-Making, Self-Awareness, Psychology
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Introduction and history: the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. It was originally a philosophy and wasn"t made into a psychology until later: bahavior, overt, outside, observable actions like walking outside, mental processes. Their feelings: what is the aim of psychology, describe, naming it. Can you explain the causes of the behavior: why does it occur, predict. The ability to alter the conditions that create certain behavior. Treatment or medication: history, hippocrates, he believed that certain human moves or behaviors were caused by humors, he thought we could tell certain behaviors by blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm, we know this is totally wrong. John lock: tabula rasa, blank slate, nativist, genetics determine everything. These are both proven to have effect on us: studying nature vs nurture, looking at twins brought up in two different homes. These twins were brought up in different homes. Etc: the mind/ body problem, mind, body.
