PSY 201 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Memory, Synapse, Prefrontal Cortex
20 Nov 2018
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Information interpreted to support positive beliefs: overconfidence promoted by how often people fail to recognize weaknesses. 1. 2 what are the scientific foundations of psych: schools of thought: different ways of thinking that have individually dominate the field until a new school of thought takes over, confucius: human development, education, and interpersonal relations. Introspection (wundt): systematic examination of subjective mental experiences that requires people to inspect and report on the content of their thoughts: comparing subjective experiences as they contemplated a series of objects. Cognitive approaches emphasized mental activity: perceptions of situations can influence behavior, cognitive psychology (miller): concerned with the mental functions: Behaviors, and how they vary across social situations. Inheritance of genetic predispositions to developing certain psych disorders. Biology is increasingly emphasized in explaining psychological phenomena. Brain chemistry: hundreds of substances play critical roles in mental activity and behavior, brain chemistry is different when we are aroused than when we are calm and these chemical can influence memory.
