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What are the goals of Psychology |
To control/change, predict, descride and explain behavior |
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What is the definition of Psycology |
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes |
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Who is the birth of Psy attributted to and what did he establish |
Wilhelm Wundt, he established the first lab to study concious experiances |
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What did John Watson believe the study of Psy was |
observable behavior |
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What did Sigmund Freud think you could examine to resolve our problems |
our unconcious thoughts |
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What does humanism emphasize |
unique aspects of each person |
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What does socioculture psy believe influences our behavior |
society and culture |
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What do cognative Psy emphasize on |
how people think and process information |
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Define Eclectic |
an approach that integrates and combines several perspectives when explaining behavior |
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What is the difference between a Psychologist and Psychiatrist |
A psychologist focuses on talk therapy while a psychiatrist focuses on using medication to fix problems |
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What information does a correlation study provide about two variables |
it studies the relationship between the two variables |
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An independant variable is |
set and controlled |
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A dependant variable is |
experimental |
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What is a neurotransmitter |
a chemical messenger that carries neural signals across the synapse |
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What effect do neurotransmitters have on neurons |
The neurotransmitter causes excitation in the neuron which increases the chance of an action potential |
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What causes a runners high |
endorphines, exercise can lead to the release of endorphins which produces feelings or please and well being |
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Where is Broca's area and what does it do to speech |
left frontal lobe, damage to it causes one to not be able to produce understandable speech (Broca's Aphasia) |
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Where is Wernicke's area and how does it effect speech |
Left temperal lobe, it causes one to not be able to understand spoken language(Wernicke's Aphasia) |
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What is the fight or flight system |
the changes our sympathetic nervous system makes to our body to help defend it from threat. It pumps blood away from internal organs and towards the muscles in our arms and legs to help us respond quickly |
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How do the right and left hemespheres in the brain communicate with eachother |
Corpus callosum, a thick band or neurons that connects both sides of the brain. It bonds the two sides, without it each side would oporate independantly in ignorance of the other |
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What role do rods and cones play in vision |
special cells that convert light into neural signals in the retina. Rods work well in dim light, comes work well in bright light |
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Describe the monocular depth cue of losing accomidation |
Ciliary muscles stretch the lens of your eye causing images to not be focused properly, you lose depth perception |
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How is the blind spot formed |
where the optic nerve exits the retina there are no rods or cones creating a point in our visual feild we cannot see |
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What causes the moon illusion |
Our brain are accomidating what it thinks is a mistake in perception, it is trying to fix the inconsistancy by inflating our perception of the size of the moon on the horizon |
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Whats in the central nervous system |
brain, spinal cord |
