PSY 1001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Inferior Colliculus, Frontal Lobe, Sequential Analysis

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1001
• Professor: Robert Thunhorst

Document Summary

Psychology: the study of behavior and mental processes. Psychology is a comparatively young science (only 130 years old) Psychologists gather facts about behavior and attempt to explain it. Pay attention to 2 historical trends in psychology. Move from explanations of behavior based on unseen causes to observables. Localization of function within the nervous system. Many cultures over time have this belief. The belief that behavior is directed by spirits (like trees, animals, planets, winds) Zodiac wheel (how positions of stars affected our behavior) Gave us the first systematic study of the body. Aristotle the brain was bloodless and the heart was the center of the nervous system. Hippocrates all health/ill health depended on the bodily distributions of humors. He attempted to explain personalities based on stuff physically present in the bodies. Made an important contribution: cogito ergo sum - i think therefore i am.