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Psychology |
The study of behavior and mental processes. |
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Pseudo-Psychology |
False psychology. |
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Empirical Evidence |
Information gathered by observation. |
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Critical Thinking |
Process of evaluating, comparing, and analyzing information. |
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4 Main Goals Of Psychology w/ definitions |
Description: Understanding; tells what is going on. Explanation: Explains behavior or mental process. Prediction: Answering the what and whys. Change: Using information gathered to promote good change. |
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Careers in Psychology |
Sports, school, industrial, clinical, bio. |
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What is Structuralism? Who founded it? |
Using introspection to explore the mind. Edward Titchner |
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Who is the father of psychology? Where is he from? |
William Wundt Germany |
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What is functionalism? Who founded it? |
Study of how species adapt to their surrounding. William James |
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What is Psychoanalytic? who founded it? |
The unconscious mind. Sigmound Froyd |
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Where is William James from? |
America |
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What is the Bio-Psycho-social model? |
Bio- Your genetics Psycho- Your mind (behavior) Social- Your environment or culture |
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Gender & Cultural Influences |
n/a |
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What is meta-analysis? |
Taking all results and averaging them out. |
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What is basic research? Where is it conducted? |
Researchers doing research inside a lab. |
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What is applied research? Where is it conducted? |
Using the basic research hands on outside of the lab. |
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What is debriefing? |
Used to tell a participant they were deceived. |
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What are the 4 major research methods? |
Experimentive Descriptive Correlation Biological |
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What are co-founding variables? |
Compares directly or inversely to independent and dependent. |
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What is a double blind study? |
Neither the participant nor research knows. |
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What are placebos? |
Sugar pill in a fake treatment. |
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What is correlation coefficient? |
higher more correlation. lower no correlation. |
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What are behavioral genetics? |
genetics and environmental influence on behavior. |
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What is evolutionary psychology? |
Study study of behavior over time |
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What are genes? |
basic unit of heredity. |
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What are neurons? |
basic form of communication |
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What are dendrites? |
Branch like structure. receive info and send it to cell body |
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What is the cell body? |
sends info to axon from cell body |
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What are axons? |
A fiber that receives info from the cell body. |
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What is the myelin sheath? |
Fatty substance around the axon. |
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What are neurotransmitters? |
Chemicals that carry info across synaptic gap |
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What is the Central Nervous System? |
Brain and spinal cord |
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What is Peripheral Nervous System? What does it contain? |
All nerves besides the brain and spinal cord. It contains the Somatic Nervous System and Auto-somatic Nervous System. |
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What is in the Autonomic Nervous System? |
Parasympathetic and Sympathetic. |
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What does the parasympathetic do? |
Calms the body, gets blood back into skeletal muscles. |
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What does the sympathetic do? |
Arouses the body, Mobilizes body resources. |
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Where is the frontal lobe? What does it control? |
Located in front. Larges lobe Controls body movement. |
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Where is the temporal lobe? What does it control? |
On the sides. Controls speech and language. |
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Where is parietal lobe? What does it control? |
On the top of the head. Controls Sensation. |
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That is the occipital lobe? What does it control? |
In the back of the head. Controls vision. |
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What is Neuroplasticity? |
Environment influences the brain. can be rewired to adpat. |
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What is Neurogenesis? |
Cells deep within the brain to replace lost cells. |
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What is cortisol? |
responsible for fight or flight in threatening situation. |
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Where is the hindbrain? What is it linked to? |
In the back Pons, medulla, and cerebellum. |
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Where is the forebrain? What is it linked to? |
In the front. Linked to thalamus, hypothalamus, limbic system, and cerebral cortex. |
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Where is the midbrain? What is it linked to? |
In the middle. Reticular formation |
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What is the cerebral cortex? |
Responsible for complex behaviors and higher mental processes. |
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What is corpus callosum? |
connects the 2 sides of the hemisphere, contains largest amount of nerve fibers. |
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what is stress? |
Anything that places demand on the body. |
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What is distress? |
Unpleasant stress |
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What is eustress? |
Pleasant stress. |
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What are the 7 major sources of stress? |
Life Changes Cataclymic Conflict Frustration Hassles Chronic stressors Job stressors |
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What is type A personality? |
Hostile, ambitious and competitive |
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What is type B personality? |
Laid back and relaxed. |
