PSYCH101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sleep Paralysis, Peripheral Nervous System, Autonomic Nervous System

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Toni Serafini

Document Summary

Behaviourism: view that psychology should focus only on scientific study of observable behaviours without reference to mental processes. Psychology: science of behaviour and mental processes. Nature-nurture issue: controversy over relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviours. Natural selection: traits of a species that contribute to reproduction and survival are most likely to be passed on succeeding generations. Biopsychosocial approach: integrated perspective that focuses on biological, psychological, and social-cultural. Biological: natural selection, genetics and how they respond to environment, hormonal influences. Neuroscience: how body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences. Evolutionary: how natural selection promoted survival of genes. Behaviour genetics: how genes and our environment influence our ind. diff. Psychodynamic: how behaviour springs from unconscious drives and conflicts. Cognitive: how we encode, process, store, and retrieve info. Social cultural: variations of behaviour and thinking across situations/cultures. Basic research: pure science aiming to increase psychology"s knowledge.