Chapters 1 & 2 psych
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- Behaviorism
- You look good in those clothes! So you continue to lose weight!
- Social cognitive
- More tequila=more fun
- cognitive
- what's going on in your head
- Basic psych.
- Knowledge for knowledge's sake
- Applied psych.
- in order to solve the world's problems
- Descartes
- "I think therefore I am" Naturalism: we do not need supernatural forces to explain
- dualism
- mind and body exist together
- Father of Psychology 1879
- William Wundt 44,000 elements of sensation
- William James created ______
- functionalism (what does your mind do? function or purpose of behavior)
- Types of psych. studies
- case study, observational study, surveys
- Correlational studies
- Find a correlation + and neg correlation illusory corlation red lights and lateness
- Biological
- nervous system, hormones, brain chem, heredity, evolutionary influences
- learning
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behavioral, social cognitive
(environ. influences) - sociocultural
- i.e. people are oftne more aggressive in a crowd than they would be on their own
- psychodynamic
- unconcious thoughts, desires, conflicts