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Psych 1010 (Universityof Lethbridge)
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Levels of Psychology - answer - Social
- Biological
- Individual
- Cultural
What does Studying the mind account for?? - answer - Sensation
and perception
- Movement (why and how do we move?)
- How does the brain produce movement and why are some easier
than others?)
- Learning and memory,
- Language (enables categorization of things),
- Emotion,
- Spatial reasoning
- Thought and consciousness (aware of own thought processes),
- Sleep and dreaming
- Development of the characteristics in individuals(proximate cause
and behaviour
- Expression of these characteristics in a social context.
Functionalism - answer - William James:
, sought to understand mental processes by understanding their
goal/function of those processes.
- More observable but still dependent on subjective data
Behaviourism - answer John Watson and B.F Skinner:
manipulating environment made individuals behave a certain way,
arose out of problems with introspection not giving insight into why
behaviours occur, mental events cannot be directly observed and
introspection doesn't explain behaviours,
- Nervous system as black box that is plays no role/unimportant,
every behaviour is a simply reaction to environment
Aristotle - answer - Wrote about memory,sleep, and sensation
Mind/Body Problem - answer - Dualism and Descartes (mind is
separate, non-material thing that transcends body),
- How can we study an ethereal concept?
- Is the mind a product of the brain and its activity?
Nature vs Nurture - answer Many characteristics have genetic
components but not causes (intelligence, mental illness, ability to
metabolize drugs, developmental disabilities, etc)
- Experiences shape how the characteristics develop and execute,
interationist perspective
- ** Interactionist perspective**:
- What does the environment do?
- How do experiences influence us?
- How does it alter gene expression (which are turned on/off)?
- Genes + environment = a new form (cell decision in first stage of
development is caused by environment [epigenesis])
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