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52 Cards in this Set
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Wundt
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father of psychology
scientific method |
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Father of Psychology?
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Wundt
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Structuralism
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introspection and experience
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Functionalism
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evolution, how does the mind help us function?
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William James
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1st lab in the US
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Who had the first lab in the US?
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William James
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Gestalt
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the whole is more than the sum of the parts
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Who thought "the whole is more than the sum of the parts"?
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Gestalt
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Who had the Psychodynamic Theory?
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Freud
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Freud (3 things)
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how thoughts and feelings affect behavior
push and pull of conscious and unconscious Psychodynamic theory |
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Who thought of Behaviorism?
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Skinner
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Skinner
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Behaviorism
Had to do with reinforcement |
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Who thought of humanistic psychology?
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Rogers
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Rogers
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Humanistic Psychology
people have positive values, free will, and creativity for personal growth |
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Most psychologists are _____ psychologists, only _____%
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clinical, less than 50%
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Operationalization
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the concrete representation of the variable of interest
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Confounding variables (def.)
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extraneous variables that could affect experiment
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Statistical significance (def.)
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less than 5% chance that difference could occur due to chance
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Theory (def)
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An organized set of pricinples that describe, predict, and explain some phenomena
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PET scan
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-radioactive isotopes
-can show change in brain function over time |
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MRI
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3D image
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Interneurons communicate with...
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each other
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presynaptic neurons start....
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negative, go positive
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Are postsynaptic neurons graded?
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YES! can be gradual
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Are presynaptic neurons graded?
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NO! all or none
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Acetylcholine
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learning, memory, muscle movement
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Seratonin
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mood, regulates food intake
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Dopamine
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movement, frontal lobe activity
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Norepinephrine
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alertness and wakefullness
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Endorphins
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regulate firing of pain neurons
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What do agnostic drugs do?
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increase release of NT, imitate NT, or inhibit reuptake of NT
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What do antagonistic drugs do?
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interfere with release of NT, block NT sites
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"somatic"
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voluntary
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"Sympathetic"
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activates
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"parasympathetic"
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inhibits
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Limbic system has to do with...
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emotions, memory, and learning
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Thalamus
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all senses but smelling
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Amygdala
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anger, aggression, fear
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Hippocampus
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memory formation
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Temporal Lobes
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hearing, categorization, social interaction
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parietal lobes
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sensory integration, mental manipulation
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Frontal Lobes
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3 Ms
movement, motivation, memory |
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hypothalamus
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4 Fs
fighting, fleeing, feeding, fucking |
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richer environments (toys) lead to....
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heavier, thicker brains with more synapses and better learning
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sensation (def)
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conversion of a stimulus to neural impulses at the receptor site
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perception (def)
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interpreting those stimuli, applying meaning to them
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transduction (def)
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translating physical information into neural impulses
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absolute threshold
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the smallest amount of stimulation that can be detected
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young-helmholtz theory
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3 receptors, one for green, one for blue, and one for red
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opponent process theory
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two opponent systems, blue-yellow and red-green
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bottom up processing
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use bits of information
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top down processing
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use prior information
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