PSYC 2003H- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 52 pages long!)
11 Oct 2017
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Mind: the private inner experience of perceptions, thoughts, memories, and feelings. Behavior: observable actions of a human being and non-human animals. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri): allows scientists to scan a brain to determine which parts are active when a person reads a word, sees a face, learns a knew skill, or remembers a personal experience. The influence of habit could help explain the actions of absent- minded people. Structuralists: analyze the mind by breaking it down to its basic components. Functionalists: focused on how mental abilities allow people to adapt to their environments. Nativism: (plato) the philosophical view that certain kinds of knowledge are innate or inborn. Philosophical empiricism: (aristotle) the view that all knowledge is acquired through experience. From the brain to the mind: the french connection. Phrenology: (gall) a now defunct theory that specific mental abilities and characteristics, ranging from memory to the capacity for happiness, are located in specific regions of the brain.
