Intro To Psych

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Who is Wilhelm Wundt?

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Set up the first psych lab in Leipzig, Germany

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What did Structuralists believe?

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That consciousness was made up of basic elements that were combined in the different ways to produce different perceptions

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What is introspection?

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Involves reporting on one's own conscious thoughts and feelings.

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Who is Edward Titchener?

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He set up the first psych lab in the U.S.

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What do functionalists believe?

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That consciousness, and behavior in general, helped people and animals adjust to their environment

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Focus on understanding how physiological and biochemical processes might produce psychological phenomena

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Biological Approach

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Thoughts, feelings, and behaviors stem from the interaction of innate drives and society's restrictions on the expression of those drives.

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Psychodynamic Approach

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Who said the most important urges are the sexual and aggressive ones?

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Sigmund Freud

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Explain behavior primarily in terms of learned responses to predictable patterns of the environmental stimuli.

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Behaviorist Approach

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Who studied classical conditioning?

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Pavlov

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Who studied operant conditioning?

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Skinner

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The "cause" is represented by what?

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Independent variable

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The "effect" is represented by what?

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Dependent variable

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What is Blind study?

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If subjects do not know whether they're receiving the drug or placebo.

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Who does not know about the placebo in a double-blind study?

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The subjects and the experimenters

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Involves assessing the relationship between two variables

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Correlational studies

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Means that high score on one variable tend to pair with high score on the other variable.

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Positive relationship

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Means that high scores on the one variable tend to be paired with low scores on the other variable

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Negative relationship

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Describes the strength of a relationship.

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Correlation coefficient

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Involve in-depth analysis of only one person.

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Case study

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Study as it occurs in real-life settings.

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Naturalistic Observation

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Agreement among observers is a measure of what?

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Inter-judge reliability

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Concerned with how communication happens and how behavior is influenced by it.

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Behavioral Neuroscience

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Detect heat, or light, or touch and the pass information about those stimuli on to the brain.

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Sense receptors

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Pathways for communication of sense receptors.

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Neurons

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Take in information from the body tissues and sense organs, and transmit it to the spinal cord and brain.

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Sensory Neurons

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Send information in the opposite direction;

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Motor Neurons

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Communicate with other neurons.

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Interneurons ( associative neurons)

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Short, bushy fibers that take information in from outside the cell.

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Dendrites

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Long fibers that pass info. along to other nerve cells, to glands, or to muscles.

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Axons

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A fatty tissue that surrounds the axon and accelerates transmission of info.

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Myelin Sheath

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Electrically charged atoms

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Ions

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Maintained because the axon's membrane won't let positive ions into the cell unless the cell receives a signal from the dendrites.

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Resting potential

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The neuron pumps out the sodium ions and can then fire again

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Refractory Period

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Junction where the end of one neuron meets the beginning of another

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Synapse

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Helps control arousal and sleep

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Serotonin