PSY 120 Study Guide - Final Guide: Physical Attractiveness, Ct Scan, Neurology
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Careful, systematic observations of one"s own conscious experience. Led to investigation of mental testing, developmental patterns, and sex differences. Founder of behaviorism: psychology = scientific study of behavior, behavior = overt or observable responses or activities. Radical reorientation of psychology as a science of observable behavior. Sigmund freud (1856-1939): austria: founded psychoanalytic school of thought, emphasis on unconscious processes influencing behavior. Cognition = mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge: viewed humans as information processors, 1950"s and 60"s. Application of scientific methods to studying internal mental events. Dependent variable (dv) = variable affected by manipulation. A theory is a scientific explanation of a phenomenon. A scientific theory should contain statements that either: have already been tested and verified by previous research, are able to be tested for accuracy in future research. Each study will test a specific hypothesis or set of hypotheses that emerge from the theory: hypothesis : factual statement that can be objectively tested.
