PSYCH 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-5: Naturalistic Observation, Observational Learning, Central Tendency
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Chapter 1- psychology: the evolution of a science. People often operate on autopilot or behave automatically, relying on well-learned habits w/o really thinking. Psychology"s roots: the path to a science of mind. Structuralists: analyze the mind by breaking it down into its basic components. Functionalists: focus on how mental abilities allow people to adapt to their environments. Plato favored nativism (certain kinds of knowledge are innate/inborn) Aristotle favored philosophical empiricism (all knowledge is acquired through experience) A child"s mind=blank slate on which experiences were later written. Dualism: how mental activity can be reconciled/coordinated w/physical behavior [rene. Phrenology: a now defunct theory that specific mental abilities/characteristics, ranging from memory to the capacity for happiness, are localized in specific regions of the brain [franz. Believed that certain bumps/indentations on the skull reflected the size of the brain regions beneath them; feeling the bumps could reveal a person"s emotions.
