PSY 110 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Nervous System, Memory, Psychoanalysis

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 110
• Professor: Carver Charles

Document Summary

Introspectionists: looked inward at own experience: looked inward to personal experiences of reality, later on phenomenologists emphasized the importance of personal experience. Shared assumptions that regularities exist and can be verified, which is the basis of. Influences of both views in today"s psychology science, lawful regularities exist in the world and can be verified: viewpoints active within psychology biological processes. Biological: people are animals with biological processes, behavior results from. Evolutionary: people evolved to fit demands of existence, behavior is based in. Psychodynamic: many things going on inside us at once, competing for influence, adaptation through evolution behavior results from competing internal forces. Behavioral: people learn all the time, behavior results from learning. Humanistic: people are able to make free choices in life, behavior is based on free. Some areas of basic psychology that examine sub-systems: Physiological psych/bio-psychology/behavioral neuroscience: study of neurons, nervous system, and hormones. Motivational psych: differences between energized and sluggish.