PSYC 2070 Chapter : Chapters 2 3
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Science that attempts to describe behavior, thoughts, disorders, and to differentiate between typical and atypical behavior. 4 goals of psychology: control, prediction, explanation, description. Mind consists of basic elements analyzed via objective introspection. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts . An organized whole gestalt psychologists: seek out patterns. Psychoanalysis: insight therapy for fear and anxiety (unconscious, early childhood) There is not one single perspective that is used to explain all human behavior and mental processes. Psychodynamic: focus on the unconscious and early development, not ego. Nervous system: extensive network of specialized cells that carry info to and from all parts of the body. Neuroscience: deals with the structure and function of neurons, nerves, and nervous tissue. Neurons: the basic cell that makes up the nervous system: dendrites receive information from other neurons, axon is the chain, ending in axon terminals (output of neuron, coating around axon-myelin.
