CRM 1001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Occipital Lobe, Parietal Lobe, Frontal Lobe

• School: Villanova University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 1001
• Professor: remster

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Psychology the scientific study of mind and behavior. Includes the study off human brains, cognition, emotion, and behavior: mind private inner experience of perceptions, thoughts, memories, and feelings, behavior observable actions of human beings and animals. Individual personality traits, sex differences, developmental age changes (personality, differences at different ages: social and cultural situations, context, cultural norms (gender stereotypes, display norms) Nativism certain kinds of knowledge are innate (language skills: aristotle. Empiricism all knowledge is acquired through experience: descartes. Dualism the body follows physics, but the mind does not. Skepticism reject any idea that can be doubted: darwin. Evolution genes that increase survival and reproductive success are passed on to the next generation: wundt. Functionalism the mind evolved to solve adaptive problems: freud. Unconscious parts of our (cid:373)i(cid:374)d (cid:449)e"re (cid:374)ot a(cid:449)are of ha(cid:448)e a stro(cid:374)g influence. Psychoanalysis a form of psychotherapy: watson. Classical conditioning after training, a previously neutral stimulus can cause a conditioned response: skinner.