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What is the focus of Psychodynamic Psychology? |
to dig into the unconcious. Example: past experiences, conflicts. etc. |
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What is the focus of of Behavioral Psychology? |
to focus on the objective, observable, and enviromental influences on Overt behavior |
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What is the focus of Humanistic Psychology? |
focuses on Free will, human nature, and self actualization as naturally positive and growth seeking |
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What is the focus of Cognitive Psychology? |
focused on basic processing of the mind,. Thinking, perceiving, problem solving, etc. |
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What is the focus of Biological Psychology? |
Focuses on the biology of the brain. Genetics, biological processes, and other parts of the nervous system that may affect the mind |
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What is the focus of Evolutionary Psychology? |
focuses on natural selection, adaptation, and the evolution of behavior |
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What is the focus of Sociocultural Psychology? |
focuses on one's social and cultural interactions and how they relate to behavior |
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What is the focus of Biopsychosocial Psychology? |
modern version of psychology that puts biological, psychological, and sociological processes together. |
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what are the 6 steps of the scientific method? |
1) Question & Literature Review 2) Testable Hypothesis 3) Research Design 4) Data Collection and Analysis 5) Publication 6) Theory Development |
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For Scatter plots what do you write? |
whether it's positive, negative, or zero and the coefficient. Ex: +.8 or -.3 |
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When we say experiment what do we really mean? |
Study |
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What research method do researchers use for cause and effect? |
Experiments |
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What are the elements of an Experiment? |
Independent Variable Dependent Variable Random assignment into an Experimental group or Control group compare those groups |
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What is a confounding variable? |
variable we did not take into account yet |
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What are psychology's main goals? |
Describe Explain Predict Change |
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What is Naturalistic Observation? |
watch what people do in their natural capacity see their behavior changes "be a stalker" |
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What are Surveys? |
descriptive method, typically used to gather statistical data. problem is people may not be completely honest |
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what is a case study? |
take one person or a small sample that are experiencing a phenomenon to gain as much information as possible purpose is to understand something that is rare/uncommon |
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what is archival research? |
take a look at a lot of existing data and look at the patterns within it. problem is that you had no control on how the data was collected |
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what is correlational studying? |
collect data and look at the correlation/relationship between two variables. correlation should be between -1 & 1 |
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what are glial cells? |
make up 90% of brain cells means glue in greek take waste away and give the cells nutrients |
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what are neurons |
look like snow flakes ie; no neurons looks the same |
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what are dendrites |
they are attached to the cell body |
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what does the cell body contain? |
the nucleus |
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how do neurons communicate? |
neuron receives signals from dendrites, which are EXCITATORY or INHIBATORY which triggers "Action potential" |
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Chemical Signals |
signals go from 1 neuron to another there is action potential in the sending neuron the signal travels to axon terminals and bursts synaptic vesicles then transmitters travel through synapse to receiving neuron |
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what is the function of acetylcholine? |
regulates muscle action, learning, and memory. involved with alzheimers |
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what is the function of serotonin? |
hunger, sleep, arousal. to little is a contributor of depression |
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what is the function of dopamine? |
movement, learning, attention, and emotion associated with skizophrenia |
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what is the function of norephinephrine? |
alertness and arousal too little of it is a contributor of depression |
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what is the function of epinephrine? |
reduces pain enhances pleasure |
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what is the function of glutamate? |
EXCITATORY transmitter too little leads to migraines |
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what is the function of GABA? |
INHIBITORY deficiency of this can cause seizures |
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what are the funcions of endorphines |
regulate mood pain and memory |
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what are the 3 parts of the brain |
Forebrain - newest "crown jewel" midbrain hindbrain - oldest |
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what are the function of the sympathetic nervous system? |
(AROUSES) pupils dilate salivation decrease heart accelerates lungs dilate digestion decrease orgasm/climax sweat increase |
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what are the function of the parasympathetic nervous system? |
(CALMS) pupils constrict heart slows lungs constrict digestion increase erection no sweating |
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what are the lobes of the brain 4 of them |
frontal parietal temporal occipital |
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medulla |
regulates breathing and heart rate |
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pons |
breathing and movement |
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thalamus |
all senses except smell |
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reticular formation |
arousal looks like webbed fingers |
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cerebellum |
muscle movement motor skills memory balance |
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amygdala |
agression |
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hypothalamus "running hippo" |
fight or flight |
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hippo campus "learning hippo" |
learning and memory |
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substantia nigra |
eye and body movement |
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brocas area |
speech production |
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Wernickes area |
speech comprehension |