PS102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Behavioral Neuroscience, Edward B. Titchener, Wilhelm Wundt
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Individual content of mental processes (emotions, ideas, etc. ) influence on behaviour: group social environment, culture, etc, darwin, theory of evolution, common ancestral point, natural selection and adaption, wundt, opened a psychology laboratory, empirically driven experiments. Introspection evaluation/reflection of mental processes ( looking inward : consciousness awareness of immediate behaviours and mental processes, voluntarism voluntary and willful acts of decision in human behaviour. Structuralism: titchener, studies the structure of conscious experience, break mental processes down to fundamental components (i. e. , sensations, used introspection to describe observable mental processes rather than to explain the underlying mechanisms. Functionalism: function or purpose of consciousness, view consciousness as an ever-changing stream of mental events, empiricism to focus on causes and consequences of behaviour. Idea that we have inborn tendencies to impose structure on what we see: see things as broad perceptual units rather than individual sensations, tied to perception. Illusions and errors in perception, memory, and judgement.
