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| Something can be viewed with neuroscience, evolutionary behavior, genetics, psycho-dynamics, cognitive, socio-cultural, etc... |
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| Pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base |
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Scientific study that aims to solve practical problems
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| Studies, assesses and treats people with psychological disorders |
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| A branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders |
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| The tendency to believe after learning an outcome that we could have foreseen it |
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| repeating the essence of a research study |
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| an observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles |
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| ask people to give opinions; quick stats, yo |
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| observing some one in their natural state |
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| group exposed to the experiment |
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| the group not exposed to the experiment |
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| A sample that fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion |
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| the variable whose effects are being studied |
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| the variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variables |
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| neither the patient nor the administrator know if you are taking the placebo or experiment |
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| a widely used measurement of variability or diversity used in statistics and probability theory |
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| receives message from the neuron |
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| passes messages away from cell body to other neurons |
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| covers the axon and speeds neural impulses |
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| the level or stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse |
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| the junction between the axon tip of the sending neuron and the dendrite or cell body of thee receiving neuron |
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| chemical messengers that cross the synaptic gaps btwn neurons |
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| peripheral nervous system. sensory and motor neurons that connect to the brain, spine, and rest of the body |
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| neurons that carry messages "in" |
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| neurons that deliver messages |
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| sympathetic nervous system |
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| parasympathetic nervous system |
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| the oldest part and central core of brain |
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| the base of the brain stem. controls heart rate and breathing |
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| directs messages to the sensory receiving areas in teh cortex and transmits replies to teh cerebellum and medulla |
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| coordinates voluntary movement and balance |
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| neural system associated with emotions and dr |
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| linked to emotion and reward |
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| ultimate control and info processing center |
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| speaking and muscle movements, making plans and judgments |
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| receives info for touch and body position. on the top of the brain |
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| receives info from visual field. back of brain |
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| receives info from auditory areas. sides of brain |
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| controls voluntary movements |
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| controls speech muscles via motor cortex; language expression |
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| interprets auditory code. language reception |
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| axon fibers connecting two cerebral hemispheres |
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| brain's ability to change |
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| the process by which our sensory receptors receive stiimuli from our environment; can be unconscious |
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| the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information; consciousness |
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| from sensory receptors to the brain |
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| from brain out; thinking of fucking, then fucking |
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| minimum stimulation needed to detect a stimulus 50% of the time |
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| the minimum stimulation to detect a change in stimulus 50% of the time |
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| diminishing sensitivity as a consequence of constant stimulation; loud music |
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| analyzing a bird; shape, color, motion, form, depth... |
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| gestalt's laws of perception |
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| how we see things. the vase of two people |
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| see the old lady or the young lady |
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| we group nearby things together |
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| we group similar figures together |
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| we perceive smooth continuous patterns, rather than discontinuous ones |
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| we fill in gaps to create a complete, whole object |
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| the ability to see an object in 3-d, although the images that strike the retina are 2-d |
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| depth cues that are available to either eye alone; picture - see what is in front and what is in back, relative height, relative size, interposition, light, and shadow |
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| binocular cues (retinal disparity, convergence) |
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| depth cues that depend on the use of two eyes |
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| comparing images in both eyes |
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| perception can occur apart from sensory input |
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| mind to mind communication |
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| a perceiving of remote events |
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| know something before it happens |
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| the ability to move things with you rmind |
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| link two stimuli and anticipate events. ex. pavlov got dogs to salivate to the bell |
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| learning that certain events occur together |
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| unconditioned stimulus, food |
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| unconditioned response; salivation |
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| conditioned stimulus; the bell |
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| conditioned response; salivation |
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| when one links the neutral stimulus to the unconditioned stimulus to get the same response |
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| the diminishing of a conditioned response |
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| the tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses |
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| the learned ability to distinguish between two similar stimuli |
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in various drug addictions - to get un-addicted
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| a type of learning behavior if behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcement, or diminished if followed by a punisher |
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| the rat presses the bar and recieves food |
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| an operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer approximations of the desired behavior |
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| an event that strengthens the event it folows |
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| innately reinforcing stimulus such a one that satisfies a biological need; getting food when hungry |
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| gains its reinforcement through its associating with the primary reinforcer; the rat knows the light signifies food |
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| a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified number of responses |
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| a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after unpredictable amount of responses |
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| a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified time has elapse |
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| reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response at unpredictable time intervals |
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| an event that decreases the behavior that follows |
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| learning by observing others |
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| the process of observing and imitating a specific behavior |
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| applied classical conditioning to humans |
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| a clear memory of an emotional or significant event |
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| the processing of information into the memory system |
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| the retention of encoded info over time |
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| getting info out of memory and remembering it |
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| knowledge, skills, experiences; limitless storage |
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| activated memory that only holds for a short period of time |
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| unconscious encoding; time, space, meaning of words |
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| encoding that reqiures attention and conscious effort |
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| the conscious repetition of info |
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| distributive study or practice material; will last longer |
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| remember the last and first names on a list |
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| organizing terms into familiar, manageable units |
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| remember something because of the stimulus |
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| remember something because of visual stimulus |
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| remembering something because of an auditory stimulus |
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| unconscious association in memory |
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| something that you remember from the past affects the remembering of something in the present |
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| something that remember from the present disrupts remembering something from the past |
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| a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people |
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| best example of a category |
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| a step by step process that guarantees solving the problem |
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| a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems more efficiently |
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| how well they represent particular prototypes |
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| when we base judgment on the mental availability of info |
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| a sudden and often novel realization of a solution of a problem |
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| a tendency to search for info that confirms what we believe to be true |
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| the inability to see a problem from a different perspective |
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| a cognitive bias that limits a person to using an object only in the way it is traditionally used |
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| the tendency to be more confident than correct |
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| the way an issue is posed, can significantly affect decisions and judgments |
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| ability to achieve something |
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| a method for assessing an individual's mental aptitude and comparing it with other scores |
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| the widely used american revision of binet's original intelligence test |
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| "intelligence quotient" an intelligence test - mental age/100 |
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| wechsler adult intelligence scale |
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| most widely used intelligence test |
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| defining meaningful scores by comparison of the performance of a pre tested group |
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| the extent to which a test yields consistent results |
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| the extent to which a test measures what its supposed to |
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| a general intelligence factor that underlies specific mental abilities (spearman; need it for everyone) |
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| intelligence in different areas |
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| condition in which a person is limited in most things, but incredible at one thing |
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| feeling of apprehension or tension |
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| you dont know the cause but always feel tension |
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| a person who has a specific fear |
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| obsessive compulsive disorder |
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| repeating the same action over and over; constant thought, cannot relieve the thought with just one action |
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| sudden episode of intense dread |
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| psychological disorder that take a bodily form |
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| shuts down part of your body because you feel guilty for the action that body part commits |
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| exaggeration of illness' importance/severity |
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| opposite of amnesia. literally insane, look it up |
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| dissociative identity disorder |
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| disorders characterized by social extreme |
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| major depressive disorder |
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| diminishing of pleasure in activities and peopel |
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| hyperactive and wildly optimistic |
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| difficult to tell the difference between the unreal and real. include delusions and hallucinations |
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| disorder where a person can do a wrongdoing with no regret |
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| deviant and stressful patterns of thought |
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| the psyche disorder that can be diagnosed and treated |
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| see something that is not there |
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| when you receive a sensory signal that does not exist |
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| the american psychiatric association's diagnosis and statistical manual of mental disorders. widely used for classifying psychological disorders |
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