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| The scientific study of behavior and mental processes |
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| A branch of psychology that assists people with problems in living (school, work, marriage, etc.) and in achieving greater well being. |
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| A branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders |
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| A branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who can provide medical treatments such as drugs |
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| Established first psychology lab in 1879 in Leipzig Germany |
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| Philosopher-psychologist, author of Principles of Psychology. Professor at Harvard and tutor of Mary Calkins. |
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| Austrian physician, personality theorist, and therapist with controversial ideas about self-understanding |
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| The study of observing people's behavior in reaction to different situations. |
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| Skinner, Thorndike, Watson, Pavlov |
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| Main emphasis of behaviorists |
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| Recording only observable behaviors |
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| Modern behavioral psychology |
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| How people learn observable responses |
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| Modern Cognitive Psychology |
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| How people encode, process, store, and retrieve information |
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| Modern Biological Psychology |
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| How the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences |
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| Modern Psychodynamic Psychology |
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| How behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts |
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| Modern Sociocultural Psychology |
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| How behavior and thinking vary across different cultures |
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| Study of the link between two variables |
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| Study of the effect a change in one variable related to another variable |
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| Correlational Coefficient |
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| Measure of the direction (positive or negative) and extent (range of a correlation coefficient is from -1 to +1) of the relationship between two sets of scores. Scores with a positive correlation coefficient go up and down together (as with smoking and cancer). A negative correlation coefficient indicates that as one score increases, the other score decreases (as in the relationship between self-esteem and depression; as self-esteem increases, the rate of depression decreases). |
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Assigning research participants into random groups
+ minimalizes preexisting differences, works well will larger groups |
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| Participant is unaware if they are in control or experimental group |
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| Participant and researcher are both unaware which group the participant is in -- control or experimental |
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| Statement of procedures used to define research variables and how they can be measured |
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| Divisions of the Nervous System |
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| Peripheral nervous system and the central nervous system |
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| Peripheral nervous system |
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| Sensory neurons, motor neurons, and sensory system (sensory receptors for hearing, vision, etc.) |
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| Peripheral nervous system branch relating to unconscious bodily actions and reflexes |
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| Voluntary movements of the peripheral nervous system |
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| Sympathetic nervous system |
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| Arousal under the autonomic nervous system, involuntary |
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| Parasympathetic nervous system |
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| Involuntary calming under the autonomic nervous system |
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| System regulating hormones - thyroid, pituitary gland, adrenal gland, hypothalamus, etc. |
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| Regulates growth, pregnancy, blood pressure, food into energy, ADH, water |
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| Cell body, axon, dendrite, axon terminal, myelin sheath |
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| Cell's life support center |
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| receives messages from other cells |
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| passes messages from cell body to other neurons, muscles, or glands |
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| Protects axon of some neurons and improves the speed of neural impulses |
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| forms junctions with other cells |
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| Resting potential of a neuron |
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| Refractory period of a neuron |
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| Doughnut shaped system of neural structures. Involved in emotions like fear and aggression. Controls feelings of hunger and sex drive. Amygdala, hippocampus, thalamus, pituitary, cerebellum, and hypothalamus. |
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| Oldest and innermost part of the brain. Controls automatic survival functions. Includes the pons, medulla, basal ganglia, reticular formation |
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| Four lobes of the cerebral cortex |
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| Parietal, occipital, frontal, temporal |
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| Connects right and left hemispheres of the brain |
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| Interpretation of information collected from the environment |
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| Absolute threshold of a sensation |
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| Minimum stimulus needed to perceive it 50% of the time |
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| Minimum difference between 2 stimuli to detect a difference 50% of the time |
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