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Psychology
The science of behavior and mental processes.
Operational Definition
A definition of a variable based on the operations or procedures used to measure it.
Research Ethics
Ethics of planning, conduct, and reporting research. Protects the interests of the public, the subjects of research, and the researchers themselves.
Random Assignment
The act of randomly assigning subjects to an experimental or control group.
Axon Hillock
Located at the end of the soma, it is the final holding place of the neurons before being transmitted to the axon, which controls the firing of the neuron. If the strength exceeds the threshold limit for the axon hillock it will send a signal to the axon.
dopamine
Dopamine is both a neurotransmitter and neurohormone that is produced in multiple places within the human brain. Plays an important part in cognition, punishment, motivation, and MOVEMENT.
The Goals of Psychology
To Describe, to Explain, to Predict, to Change
Split-Brain Patient
A patient who's corpus-callosum is cut in order to prevent the spreading of epileptic seizures from one hemisphere to another. Roger Sperry won the Nobel prize in 1981 for this procedure.
Freud
The founder of Psychoanalysis. Had many theories that were considered brilliant but provocative. Great but controversial.
He has had a great impact on discipline.
Psychoanalysis
The "grandest" of psychological theories; that include motivation, personality, disorders, treatment, development, as well as the very structure of the mind.
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