[PSYCH 101] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 35 pages long Study Guide!

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Stephanie Denison

Document Summary

Behaviors: observable actions of a person or animal. Mind: an individual"s sensations, perceptions, memories, thoughts, dreams, motives, emotions, and other subjective experiences. Descartes: he challenged the idea of dualism through his knowledge of blood flow and concluded that complex behaviors can occur without involvement from the soul. In his view, the only thing that humans have but animals don"t is. Empiricism: the idea that human knowledge and thought derive ultimately from sensory experiences: senses allow us to acquire knowledge from the world around us. Nativism native to the human mind and do not have to be acquired from experience. Chapter 1: pages 12-22: psychologists want to explain mental experiences and behavior, there are 9 levels of analysis, each has a different perspective and research on why the behavior occurred. Evolutionary explanations: all the basic machinery underlying behavior is a product of natural selection by evolution, some evolutionary psychologists study the routes in which the particular behavior evolved.