PSYCH 111 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Depth Perception, Reticular Formation, Working Memory
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Empiricism (john locke: mind works in mechanist way, soul not divorced from body, all info derived from sensory experience, mind was a blank slate at birth. Dualism (descartes: body and soul are separate, body: observable, obeys natural laws, controls reflexive behavior, soul: observable only through interaction with the bodyf4. Structuralism (edward bradford tichener: used introspection (looking inward) to see how experiences and immediate sensations related to one another, structuralism waned because of introspection"s inconsistency. Functionalism (william james: how the mind/body functions together. Why do you do ____ after you ____: believed thinking and other conscious behavior was adaptive needed for survival. Freudian psychology: emphasized the ways our unconscious thought processes and our emotional responses to childhood experiences affect behavior. Cognitive revolution: led the field back to early interest in mental processes, especially how our mind processes and retains info, cognitive neuroscience = cognitive psychology + neuroscience. Watson did study on little albert, and on classical conditioning.
