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| study of behavior and mental processes |
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| what are the 4 frames of mind when studying psychology? |
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| critcal thinking, skepticism, objectivity, and curiosity |
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| Wundt's approach to discovering basic elements of mental processing. "What" |
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| not what mind is, but what it is for. purpose of mind and behavior in individuals adoption to enviorment. "Why" |
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| focuses on body especially brain and nervous system. |
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| observable behavioral responses and their enviormental determinants. |
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| emphasizes unconcious thoughts such as biological drives (sex drive) |
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| emphasizes persons positive qualities, freedom to chose own destiny |
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| mental processes in knowing, how we direct attention, remember, think. |
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| evolutionary ideas such as adaption, reproduction and natural selection. |
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| way enviorments influence behavior |
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| psychologists specilazations |
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| psychological, sensation, learning, cognitive, developmental, motavation and emotion, woman and gender, personality, social, industrial (HR, Leadership), clinical, health. |
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| step 1: observing phenomenon |
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| see something in world and want to know. ideas that attempt to explain observations. |
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| Step 2: hypothesis and predictions |
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| step 3: testing through emperical research |
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| concrete way to measure variables of interest |
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Step 4: drawing conclusions
Step 5:evaluate theory |
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| theories can only be changes by multiple scientists, step 5 goes forever, only one. |
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| dtermines dimensions of phenomenon defining everything |
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| take notes on observable things ex. kids on playground |
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| interview people directly |
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| study individuals life and events that happened |
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| examines relationship between variables. purpose to see whether and how the 2 variables change. |
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| theft, robberies in summer not related to ice cream that ice cream makes people steal. |
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| observational, multiple waves of variables of interest. ex. nuns happiness over time |
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| degree to which experimental design reflects real world issues |
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| degree to which changes of dependent variable due to manipulatio of independent variable |
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| how they communicate how they want them to act |
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| billions of cells allow us to do everything |
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| electrochemical transmission |
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| message travels electronically, delivers cemically |
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| connects brain and spinal cord to other parts |
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| info about pain, temp, tells muscles what to do |
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| info to body organs to control breathing, digestion |
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| support neurons so they keep living. (role players) |
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| nucleus, directs shit for neuron growth |
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| treelike looking, recieve info then take it to nucleus |
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| transfers info to other cells |
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| volatage in membrane for potential action? |
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| goes from -70 mV to 50 mV |
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| ion channels open to let opposites attract. once it reaches threshold, there is no going back. |
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| synapses and neuro transmitters |
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| like aisle of the wave, wave doesnt touch, but it still can communicate through aisle |
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| stimulates firing neurons, involved in muscle, learning, memory |
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| like brake pedal, stops firing |
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| excites neuron to fire; involved in learning, memory |
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| involved in stress;excites heart; teams up for sleep |
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| voluntary movement; mood attention |
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| regulates mood, attention, learning |
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| experience of love and social bonding; orgasmic pleasure and emotional attachment |
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| neural networks (translator) |
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| nerve cells that integrate sensory inputs to motor outputs |
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| system that regulates activities of certain organs by releasing chemical products into bloodstreams |
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| organs or tissue that control body functions |
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| chemical messangers produced by glands |
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| controls growth and regulates other glands |
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| regulates mood, energy levels, copeness with stress |
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| endocrine system function; relates to metabolism, body weight |
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| deficences in brain (stroke head injury) |
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| electroids placed on head sometimes to measure happiness |
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PET scan- technique working on mental imagery
fMRI- can see active brain activity |
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| skulls rear;medulla, cerebellum, and pons |
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| brain area that connects to spinal cord |
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| connect cerrebellum and brain stem |
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| relays info between brain eyes, ears |
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| patterns and behaviors such as sleeping and walking |
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limbic system
amygdala
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a- discrimination of objects, foods, mates, social rivals
h- storage of memories |
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| controls voluntary coordinate movements |
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| outer layer of brain (thinking planning) |
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| involved in hearing, language, memory |
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| personallity, intelligence |
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| spatial location, attention, motor control |
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| processes info about body sensations |
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| processes info about voluntary movement |
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| highest intellectual functions, thinking, problem solving |
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| understanding language, hear but dont process |
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| bundle of axons that connect 2 hemisperes |
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| all language, basic puzzles |
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| word recognition, meanings of stories, song melodies, spatial perception, recognition, emotion. tell a joke in left persons ear |
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| left brained and right brained |
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l-logical, rational
r-creative,artistic |
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| axons of healthy neurons expand to nearby damages ones |
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| dmaged region's function taken over by other part |
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