PSY 150A1- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 56 pages long!)

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 150A1
• Professor: Andrew Perkins

Document Summary

Lecture outline #1: introduction, history, and approaches in psychology psychology: scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Introduction behavior: what people do mental processes: what people think hindsight bias: after learning an outcome, the tendency to believe that you would have foreseen it ( i knew it all along phenomenon) Root #2 of psychology: philosophy: using logic & speculation to understand reality & human experience e. g. john locke (1632-1704) tabula rasa: blank slate . Wilhelm wundt: structuralism: tried to identify structures of mind introspection: thinking about our mental processes, then reporting them but not every mental process is available to us. Sigmund freud: (1856-1939) viennese physician- focus on neurology. Urges often unacceptable at conscious level banish them to unconscious! Thoughts & behavior= tension between conscious & unconscious. Everything is symbolic! behaviorism: focused on observable behaviors and how we learn them. Some behaviorists even argued that mental processes don"t exist!