[01:830:101] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 13 pages long Study Guide!

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Keiko Taga Brynildsen

Document Summary

What is psychology: the scienti c study of thought, behavior, and emotion. Conditioning via reinforcements and punishments: psychoanalytic/psychodynamic. Unconscious dynamic within the individual: evolutionary. How people reason, remember, and interpret: sociocultural. How social and cultural forces shape behavior: biological/neuroscience. How physical systems (e. g, brain circuits) affect behavior, feelings, and thoughts. Lecture 2: history of psych and research methods. Descartes - mind/body dualism (mind and body are separate: early psychology. Wilhelm wundt - rst psychological lab (1879: introspection: to get data. Titchener - structuralism: analysis of mental structures, breakdown of thought. William james - functionalism: study of how the mind works. Birds of a feather ock together [research proven: similarity predicts attraction. Hindsight bias - come up with reasons and it begins to make sense: shows we need research, scienti c method (empiricism) Design the study to the test the hypothesis: operational de nition: statement about the procedures the researcher used to measure the variable.