PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1 to 8: Functional Neuroimaging, Animal Communication, Neural Adaptation
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Clinical psychology: the branch of psychology concerned with the assessment and treatment of mental illness and disability. Determinism: the doctrine that all events, including human action, are ultimately determined by causes external to the will. Some philosophers have taken determinism to imply that individual human beings have no free will and cannot be held morally responsible for their actions. Empiricism: the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience. Stimulated by the rise of experimental science, it developed in the 17th and 18th centuries, expounded in particular by john locke, Functionalism: belief in or stress on the practical application of a thing, in particular. Gestalt psychology: a movement in psychology founded in germany in 1912, seeking to explain perceptions in terms of gestalts rather than by analyzing their constituents. Humanistic psychology: perspective that emphasizes the study of the whole person.
