PSYCH 7A Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Cerebral Cortex, Arousal, Anxiety

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 7A
• Professor: Germo

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Psychology is the scientific study of mental processes and behavior. Science is using systematic methods to draw conclusions. Mental processes are thoughts, feelings, emotions, motives: psychology in historical perspective. Structuralism focuses on finding structures of the human mind and mental processes. Method made scientific by systematic, detailed self reporting in a lab setting. James didn"t care about what the mind was, but what it was for. James saw mind as flexible and fluid, stream of consciousness": contemporary approaches to psychology. Neuroscience is the scientific study of the structure, function, development, genetics, and biochemistry of the nervous system, emphasizing that the brain and nervous system are central to understanding behavior, thought, and emotion. Behavior approach emphasizes the scientific study of observable behavioral responses and their environmental determinants. It focuses on an organism"s visible interactions with the environment. Behaviorists say that we do what we do because of the environmental conditions we have experienced and continue to experience.