PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Problem Solving, Confounding, Babbling

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Jeffrey Yen

Document Summary

Schools of phycology: structuralism: titchneer: discover structure of the mind with introspection. Needs intelligent people with good communication and the result varied: functionalism james: evolved function of thoughts and feelings. How our mental process enables us to adapt survive and flourish. Phycology was now defined as science of mental life (1920: behaviorist: watson: dropped introspection and focused on scientific study of observable behavior. Today we define phycology as the study of behavior and mental processes. Longstanding controversy over relative contributions that genes and experiences make the development of physiological traits and behaviors: plateo vs. aristotle: we inherit character and intelligence vs. everything in the mind from our external worlds and our environment. Locke& descartes: mind is a blank experience writes vs. some ideas are innate: charles darwin: natural selection therefore due to years of environmental changes our gene has changed to be better able to adapt in this world. This is solved by: nurture works on what nature endows.