PSY 150A1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Tabula Rasa, Gestalt Psychology, Humanistic Psychology
10 Dec 2016
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What is the hindsight bias? (1) scientific study: wait for next week (2) behavior: what people do- outwardly observable acts (3) mental processes: what people think -internal subjective experience. Physiology: study of the biological working of the body; Philosophy: using logic & speculation to understand reality & human experience; Hippocrates research illness, because he thinks illness = imbalance of fluids in body. John locke: using the way of tabula rasa (blank state) . Describe the primary difference between the structuralists and the functionalists. adapt to the world. Structuralism in psychology refers to a theory of consciousness, which uses the tool of introspection to think about our mental processes, the reporting them. Perceptual units: the (cid:498)whole(cid:499) made up of parts: simplifies world. Gestalt psychology: the whole is more than the sum of its parts. (perception) Sigmund freud, a viennese physician, focus on neurology, cocaine enthusiast, founder of psychoanalysis. Behaviorism: focused on observable behaviors & how we learn them.
