PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Edward Thorndike, Abraham Maslow, Albert Bandura

• School: Memorial University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Elizabeth Russell

Document Summary

Sigmund freud: many of our thoughts and feelings exist beyond the realm of awareness. Most often women who suffered a loss of perceptual, cognitive or motor function without any known cause. Believed these symptoms could be cause from childhood trauma: impact of lost memories indicated the presence of unconscious mind, mind is a complex interaction of thoughts and memories existing at different levels of awareness. Consciousness and unconsciousness: psychoanalytic theory: psychological theory that human mental processes are influenced by the competition between unconscious forces to come into awareness, childhood experiences set the stage for later psychological functioning. Contributed to effective or ineffective interactions among conscious and unconscious forces. How kids adopt social/moral norms & develop a conscious awareness of what is acceptable and unacceptable. Behaviourism: a branch of psychological thought arguing that psychology should study only directly observable behaviours rather than abstract mental processes. Psychology should study behaviours that are directly observable not abstract mental processes.