PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1.2: Franz Mesmer, Gestalt Psychology, Clinical Psychology

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Determinism: the belief that all events are governed by lawful, cause and effect relationships. Zeitgeist: a general set of beliefs that all things are composed of physical. Psychophysics: the relationship between the physical and mental view of the world. Clinical psychology: a field that focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders. Psychoanalysis: the psychological approach of how behavior and personality are influenced by unconscious processes. Nature and nurture relationships: how heredity and the environment affect/influence behavior and mental processes. Structuralism: to analysis conscious experiences by breaking them down into basic elements and analysis it. Functionalism: the purpose and function of behavior and conscious experience. Humanistic psychology: to study the unique aspects and freedom/rational thought. Gestalt psychology: the encouragement to focus on whole perception and experience, and not on the individual parts. Behavior is determined by both internal and external influences. Egyptians studied different damaged areas of the brain.