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Psychcology Unit 1
study guide for intro to psychology and nervous system
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Empiricism: What is it? Who developed it? | John Locke developed this concept, it means born with no knowledge and knowledge is received through observation and experience |
| Nativism | means a person is born with all their knowledge |
| “Tabula Rasa” | means blank tablet |
| Wilhelm Wundt | he's the founding father of psychology and developed introspection |
| Introspection | a method of self observation to collect information of the mind |
| Dualism | means the mind and body are separate |
| Central Nervous System (CNS) | is the brain, spinal cord, and brain stem |
| Sigmund Freud | he came up with psychoanalysis which is the study focused on the unconscious mind and he developed free association which is a technique for indirectly studying the unconscious process |
| 3(ish) Goals of Psych | understand, predict, control, and describe behavior |
| Peripheral Nervous System | are nerves leading from the spinal cord and brain stem to various parts of the body (spinal nerves and cranial nerves) and broken down into autonomic and somatic nervous systems |
| Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) | controls involuntary muscles, and broken down into sympathetic and parasympathetic |
| Sympathetic division | expends energy |
| Parasympathetic division | conserves energy |
| Somatic Nervous System | controls voluntary muscles |
| Careers in Psychology | Teacher, Psychologist, Professor, Counselor, and Social worker |
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