PSYCH 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Auditory Cortex, Occipital Lobe, Sensory Cortex

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Advocated by rene descartes; mind and body are separate but they interact. Physical change (bump head) mental change (pain) Phrenology the practice of assessing personality traits and mental abilities by measuring bumps on human skull. Paved way for idea about different areas of brain performing different functions. Structuralism to break down conscious experience into underlying parts to see how sensations, images, and feelings combine to make up personal experience. Behaviorism objected strongly to study of the mind / conscious experience ; emphasized study of observable responses and relation to observable stimuli. Gestalt opposed structuralism; emphasis on how the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Cognitive psychology looking directly into the black box rejected by behaviorists; examines internal mental processes like creativity, perception, thinking, problem solving, memory and language and how they influence behavior. Biological (neuroscience) every behavior, emotion and thought is caused by a physical event in the brain or nervous system; directly touches on mind/brain issue.

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