PSY 101 Study Guide - Abraham Maslow, Psychoanalytic Theory, Area Studies
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Know policies about exams, grading, make-up tests, honor code, experiment participation requirement, extra credit and incompletes. Understand concepts from survival guide (last section of syllabus) Chapter 1: the evolution of psychology (6-8 questions, all from the book) Psyche, meaning the soul, and logos, referring to the study of subject. Structuralism based on the notion that the task of psychology is to analyze consciousness into its basic elements and investigate how these elements is related. Functionalism was based on the belief that psychology should investigate the function or purpose of consciousness, rather than its structure. The behaviorism was proposing to abandon the study of consciousness altogether and focus exclusively on behaviors that they could observe directly. Watson was defining what scientific psychology should be about. Thoughts, memories, and desires that are well below the surface of conscious awareness but that nonetheless exert great influence on behavior.
