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Introspection

Knowing yourself

Socrates

Structuralism

Study of conscious experience

Wilheim Wundt

Functionalism

Brain helps adapt

William James

Behaviorism

What we do not why

John Watson

Reinforcement

Rewards should encourags and punishment should discourage

Skinner

Gestalt

Learning is active and purposeful

Koffka tested his color blindness

Psychoanalysis

Importance of our unconscious motives on our behavior

Freud

Biological

Biological factors affect behavior and mental processes

Genetics

Cognitive

Perceptions and thoughts influence behavior

Traces of many perspectives

Humanistic

People make free conscious choices regarding our behavior

You decide

Psychology

Study of brain and behavior

You not the group

Socioculture

Social, biological, and psychological factors create behavior

A+B+C=D

Neuron

Transmits info to and from brain and to and from the body

Brain powers

Neurotransmitter

Chemicals that inhabit neurons and makes them fire

Dophamine

Nervous system

Chemicals, nerves, brain, spinal cord, control system of body

Centeral nervous system

Brain and spinal cord

CNS

Peripheral Nervous System

Nerves and neurons that sends messages to and from CNS

Somatic Nervous System

Transmits the 5 senses

Autonomic Nervous System

Automatic functions

Heartbeat and breathing

Sympathetic Nervous System

Active during processes that restore energy

Sleep

Parasympathetic Nervous System

Active during processes that expend energy

Anger

Medulla

Part of Hindbrain that regulates breathing and blood pressure

Mmeditate your Medulla

Pons

Hindbrain that deals with attention and sleep to awareness transition

Cerebellum

Part of Hindbrain that deals with posture, muscle tone, coordination, skills, and memory

Recticular Activating System

Part of Midbrain that filters data and the sleep/awake transition

Thalamus

Relay station for senses except smell

I dont smell anything

Hypothalmus

Part of Forebrain that deals with emotions and drives

Hunger

Limbic System

Part of Forebrain in charge of learning memory and aggression

Cerebrum

Part of Forebrain in charge of learning language senses and movement

Applied Research

Wants to find a solution to a problem

Polar bears and global warming

Naturalistic Observation

Observes in natural everyday settings

Stalkers

Classical Conditioning

Old stimulus replaced with new stimulus to get same response

Pavlov's dog

Unconditioned Stimulus

Unlearned stimulus that elicts a natural response

Conditioned stimulus

Neutral stimulus because of pairing with unconditioned stimulus to cause response

Bell

Conditioned Response

Learned response to a previously neutral stimulus

Unconditioned response

Natural response to an unconditioned stimulus

Clinical Psychology

Help people that have major disorders adjust to the demands of life

Severe Anxiety

Councelling

Help people with less serious psychological issues

Slight depression

School

Helps identify and assist students that have problems learning

IEP

Educational

Helps school districts plan classes and teaching methods

Developmental

Study changes throughout life

Growth

Personality

Define human traits and determineinfluences on thought and explain psychological disorders

Social

Study nature and outside causes of behavior, thoughts, and feeling in social settings

Experimental

Study basic processe

Learning

Industrial

relationship between person and work

Organizational

Behavior of people in organizations

Human Factor

Interaction of peoples, machines, and environment

Factory

Consumer

Study shopping to predict and influence behavior

Marketing

Health

Connection between mindset and health

Hypochondriac

Sports

Help athletes improve performance in sports

Pure Research

Research done just to be done

Independent Variable

Manipulated variable

I.V

Dependant Variable

Resulting outcome of manipulation

D.V.

Control Group

Not tested or changed group

Experimental Group

Tested or altered group

Blind Study

Participant doesn't know they were in experimental group

Double-blind study

Both the participant and researcher does not know which group is being tested

Hindbrain

Controls vital functions

Midbrain

Controls vision, hearing, and sleep/alertness

Forebrain

Complex functions

Reasonibf and planning

Cerebral Cortex

Part of forebrain in charge of thinking, perception, and complex motor functions

Corpus Callosum

Between left and right hemispheres

Heredity

Characteristics passed down to offspring

Nature vs Nurture

Debate on how much of a person is based on nature or nurture

REM Sleep

Rapid eyemovement and when we dream 4th stage

NREM 1

Brain waves and breathing changes

NREM 2

Sleep spindles occur

NREM 3

Deep sleep

Insomnia

Inability to sleep or stay asleep

Narcolepsy

People suddenly fall asleep

Sleep Apnea

Breathing interuption during sleep

REM sleep disorder

Movement in sleep

Fatal Familial Insomnia

Hereditary sleep disorder that results in death

Conscious

Being aware

Preconscious

Stuff you aren't imediately aware of

Unconscious

Information is unavailable to the aware mind

Nonconscious

Basic biological functions

Construct

Something you cannot see, touch, or measure directly

Parapsychology

Field of study concerned with the supernatural or other phenomena that science cannot explain

Social-cognitive

People can change their enviroments or create new ones

Visual learning

Learns best with visual aids such as graphic organizers and pictures

Auditory learning

Learns best from hearing the teacher talk or reading as a class

Kinesthetic learning

Learns best with physical or hands on activities

Taste Aversion

Not eating something because it made you sick

Generalization

Avoid things as a whole

Beef

Discrimination

Avoid things that aren't similar

All meat, fish, and poultry

Flooding

Exposing to harmless stimuli

Desensitization

Slowly expose them to fear

Counterconditioning

Pleasant stimulus is paired with fearful one

Operant Conditioning

Learning from consequences (volintary)

Classical conditioning

Teaching a learned behavior by introducing a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to get that behavior

Reinforcement

Done over and over to inforce learned behavior

Positive Reinforcer

Something that makes behavior repeat when recieved

Negative Reinforcer

Something that makes behavior happen when taken away

Punishment

Action that should decrease or eliminate a behavior

Shaping

Teaching a behavior by reinforcing small steps in the right direction

Intelligence

Ability to learn from consequences, think rationally, and deal with everyday life

Two-factor Theory

All intelligence has an underlying factor (G/S factors)

G Factor

Ability to readon and solve problems

S Factor

The "it" factor you have talent or are inclined in this way or that way

Primary Mental Abilities

Nine factors make up intelligence and all equal 1

Triarchic Theory

All intelligences work together posibly at the same time

Analytical Intelligence

Problem Solving

Creative Intelligence

Ability to deal with new situations

Practical Intelligence

Ability to accomplish everyday tasks

Emotional Intelligence

Has 5 factors

Self-awareness E.I.

Understand yourself to cope with feelings

Mood Management E.I.

Distract ourselves from bad feelings

Self-motivation E.I.

Push ourselves to be better

Impulse Control E.I.

Control yourself to stay focused

People Skills E.I.

Understand others to maks life easier

Multiple Intelligence

Intelligencw has broader base (9=9)

Linguistic/Verbal M.I.

Good with word use

Logical/Mathmatic M.I.

Good with numbers and thinking

Musical M.I.

Good with Patterns

Spatial/Visual M.I.

Good with visualizing

Bodily/Kinesthetic M.I.

Good with hand/eye coordination and body movement

Intrapersonal M.I.

"ME"

Interpersonal M.I.

Other people

Naturalist M.I.

LOVES NATURE

Existential M.I.

Ponder BIG questions