PSY 110 Study Guide - Visual Cortex, Short-Term Memory, Long-Term Memory

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 110
• Professor: Donald Gillis

Document Summary

It"s a science because it uses the scientific method. The mind is the product of a healthy brain. Psychoanalytic (freud) : personality is shaped by unconscious thought process, early childhood sexual experiences shape our personality, subconscious, id ego superego. Behavioral (watson, skinner: you can only study the behavior of an animal or person, you can"t study thinking, hoping, feeling (what can be observed) Watson: classical conditioning dog and bell. Gestalt (kohler, wertheimer: the whole is more than the sum of the parts, two white lights alternate in a dark room, perceive movement led to motion picture, nazis shut down psychology in germany. Humanistic (maslow, rogers) : needs hierarchy, every person is motivated to reach their full potential but they are stopped along the way by the negativity of important people in their life, nobody is fully 100% self-actualized. Cognitive: thinking, memory, language, problem solving, creativity, problem is measuring quantitative data, asking a person what they are thinking is unreliable.