PSY 201 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dispositional Attribution, Wilhelm Wundt, Nonviolent Resistance
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Discipline concerned with behavior and mental processes and how they are effected by physical/mental state, and external environment. History: early foreruuners interested in human behavior/no empirical data/new importance of the brain. Founded to be scientific and answer questions: wilhelm wundt (1879): first psych lab. Used introspection to analyze sensations like taste buds: william james: functionalism (inspired by darwin) asked how actions help people adapt. Set course for psychology: sigmund freud: thought patients problems were mental from repressed conflict/trauma. Perspectives of psychology: 5 ways that attempt to explain why people do what they do: bio: believes feelings/behavior/thoughts are connected to bodily events; interaction of body/mind. Evolutionary psych: evolutionary forces (genetics) helps humans adapt: learning: behavior influenced by environment. Think/observ/imitation are included in how people adapt: cognitive: behavior dependent on mental process, sociocultural: social and cultural aspects shape our behavior, psychodynamic: focuses on unconscious dynamics within us.
