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Psychology |
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes. |
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Behavior |
Includes all of our outward or overt actions and reactions |
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Name the four goals of psychology
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Description Explanation Predictiion Control |
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A focus of pscyhology that studies the structures of the mind. The belief that every experience can be broken down into its individual emotions and sensations. |
Structuralism |
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The focus of psychology on how the mind allows the body to FUNCTION in the real world. |
Functionalism |
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Founder of Functionalism
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William James
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Founder of structuralism
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Titchner
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The focus on psychology that can be described as "The Whole is greater than the sum of its parts"
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Gestalt psychology
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Similar focus as psychoanalytic, however it focuses less on sex and sexual influences and more emphasis on sense of self and developmental of social relationships. |
Psychodynamic perspective |
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What type of perspective does operant conditioning function through? |
Behaviorism |
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Focuses on how external stimuli can effect behavior |
Behavioral perspectie |
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The persepctive that focuses on self actualization |
Humanistic |
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Perspective with focus on memory, intelligence, perception, though process, problem solving and language. |
Cognitive perspective |
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System for reducing bias and error in the measurement of data |
Scientific method |
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Five steps of scientitfic method |
1. Perceiving the quetions 2. Forming a hypothesis 3. Testing the hypothesis 4. Drawing conclusions 5. Report results |
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Differentiate between hypothesis and theory.
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Hypothesis leads to theories. |
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Research for the sake of gaining scientific knowledge |
Basic research |
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Researched aimed at answering real-world, practical problems. |
Applied research |
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Study in which one individual is studied in great detail in which researchers try to learn everything they can bout the individual. |
Case Study |
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Who is Phineas Gage |
Dude who took a rail road spike to the dome and had changes in personality. |
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Measure of the relationship between two or more variables. |
Correlation |
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In a correlation if two variables increase/decrease in the same direction. Example: Increase in IQ = increase SAT scocre |
Positive correlation
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When two variables are inversely related. Example: Amount of smoking goes up , life expectancy goes down |
Negative correlation |
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Occurs when special receptors in the sense organs are activated allowing various forms of stimuli to become neural signals in the brain. |
Sensation |
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Taking sensory stimuli, sorting and making sense of it. |
Perception
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Rods vs cones |
Rods - Night vision Cones- Color |
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What factor of light causes changes in brightness |
Amplitude |
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Visible external part of the ear that servse as kin dof a concentrator/funneling device. |
Pinna |
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Three bones in ear |
Malleus, Incus, Stapes |
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Somesthetic sense |
Sense of body |
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Kinesthetic sense |
Having to do with location of body parts in relation to each other |
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Vestibular sense |
Movement and body position |
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Gestalt laws of perception |
Figure-ground PRoximity Similarity CLosure Continuity |
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Awareness of everything that is going on around you and inside your own head. |
Consciousness |
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Portion of the brain that releases melatonin |
Superchiasmatic nucleus |
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Any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by exerience or practice |
Learning |
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Unlearned involuntary response that is not under personal control or choice |
Reflex |
