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Psychology
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the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
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4 goals of Psychology
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Description
Explanation Prediction Control |
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Psychology began...
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in 1879 in Germany in Wundt's psyc lab
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Titchener
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developed structuralism
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Washburn
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First woman to recieve a Ph.D in psyc
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James
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developed functionalism
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Wertheimer
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developed Gestalt psychology
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Frued
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developed the Id, Ego, and Superego..responsible for human behavior
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Watson
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developed behaviorism
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Mary Cover Jones
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demonstrated that a learned phobia could be counter conditioned
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Anna Frued, Jung, Adler
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Neo-fruedians
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Skinner
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most famous for his "skinner box", where he conditioned animals to respond to stimuli
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Humanism
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developed by Maslow and Rogers..focuses on free will and the human potential for growth
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Biopsychology
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study of biological bases of behavior
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Cognitive psychology
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study of learning, memory, language and problem solving
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psychiatrists
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provide diagnosis and therapy for persons with mental disorders
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Psychoanalysts
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training in the theory of psychoanalysis
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Psychiatric social workers
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influences in the environment on mental illness
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Psychologists
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do counseling, teaching, and research
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Scientific method
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1. percieving the question
2. forming a hypothesis 3. testing the hypothesis 4. drawing conclusions 5. reporting the results |
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Naturalistic observations
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watching animals or people in their natural environment
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Laboratory Observations
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watching animals or people in an artificial but controlled situation
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Case studies
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detailed investigations of one subject
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Correlation
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statistical technique that allows researchers to discover and predict relationships
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positive correlation
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increases in one variable are matched with increases in another
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negative correlation
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increases in one variable are matched with decreases in another
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Experiments
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tightly controlled manipulations of variables
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Single blind studies
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when the subjects do not know if they are the experimental or the control groups
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double blind studies
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neither experimenters or the subjects know this info
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Nervous system
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network of cells that carries info to and from all parts of the body
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dendrites
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carry the neural message to other cells
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Glial cells
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make up 90% of the brain
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Myelin
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insulates and protects the axons..and speeds up the neural message
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GABA
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major inhibitory neurotransmitter..released when drinking alcohol
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Central nervous system
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brain and spinal chord
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peripheral nervous system
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all the neurons and nerves that are not part of the brain and spinal chord
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2 systems within the peripheral nervous system
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somatic and autonomic nervous systems
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medulla
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controlls life sustaining functions
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pons
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sleep, dreaming, arousal, and coordination of movement
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sensation
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activation of receptors
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sensory receptors
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activated by different stimuli
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Sensory adaptation
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occurs when the sensory receptors stop responding
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Rods
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detect changes in brightness
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cones
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sensitive to colors
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three aspects of sound
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1. pitch (frequency)
2. loudness 3. timbre (purity) |
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Gustation
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sense of taste
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