PSY 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Psy, Cognitive Psychology, Language Development
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Definition: the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Physiological processes: structure and function of the brain. Integrates science, theory, and practice to understand, predict, and relieve problems with adjustment, disability, and discomfort. Concentrates on the intellectual, emotional, biological, psychological, social, and behavioral aspects. Motor skills, problem solving, moral understanding, acquiring language, emotions, personality, self concept, identity formation. Investigates internal mental processes: problem solving, memory, learning, and language. How people think, perceive, communicate, remember, and learn. Look at how people acquire, process, and store information. Opened the first experimental psychology laboratory in leipzig, germany in 1879. Brought ideas to us and the methodology and discipline was terms structuralism. Interested in how individuals function in real world. Working with clients with neuroses , developed theory of personality. Personality driven by unconscious forces beyond our control. Argued that psychology is the study of behavior. How people think, understand and know about their world.
