PSY 150A1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Abraham Maslow, Gestalt Psychology, Humanistic Psychology

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 150A1
• Professor: Adam Lazarewicz

Document Summary

Less educated suffered more adjustment problems than better educated soldiers. Southern soldiers coped worse with the climate than northern. Black soldiers were more eager to be promoted than white. Southern black soldiers referred northern black officers. Soldiers were more eager return home after the war than during. Scientific study of behavior and mental processes. After learning an outcome, the tendency to believe that you would have foreseen it. By changing the results of lazarsfeld we notice how it can work both ways, yet we see how we no think we knew it all along. Physiology: study of biological workings of the body. Illness= imbalance of fluids ( humors") in body. 19th c. science: predict personality based on bumps fissures in the skull. Philosophy: using logic and speculation to understand reality and human. Size of brain region proportional to ability. Skull adapts to shape of brain experience. We are all born with a blank slate.