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| Scientific study of overt behaviour and mental processes. |
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| Opened first psychology lab in 1875 using a technique he call introspection. His followers developed structuralism. He focused on studying the mind. |
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| Looking inward, to prove observers reactions to various stimuli. |
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| Analyzing the structure of mental life in basic elements, or building blocks. |
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| Wrote the first english psychology text called the principles of psychology which was published in 1891. Some of his students founded functionalism. He focused on studying how the mind interacted in the everyday environment. |
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| Analyzes how the mind functions to help us adapt to the environment. |
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| Using psychology to treat/cure people, introduced in the early 1900s. |
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| The study of observable behaviour. |
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| Specialized in working with mental patients, founded psychoanalysis. Stressed the role of interpreting the symbols that are unconscious expressions of the drive of sex and aggression. |
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| The first fully developed psychotherapy, or talking cure. |
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| Famous for the article psychology as the behaviourist views it. Stated that we cannot see the minds of others or measure them directly, so we should not talk about them. He said that we should focus on what we do not how we think. |
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| manipulation of the cause and random assignment of cases to treatment or control group. People must be spread equally, and therefore randomly, across groups in terms of their characteristics. |
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| A type of experimental design that is used for medicine. |
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| Manipulation of the cause |
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| The researcher decides who gets treated. |
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| exposed to all other variables except the independent variable. |
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| When you cannot say something like age or gender causes something but you can relate the two by stating that men score higher on test of aggression, but you cannot say that gender causes aggression. |
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| A mixture of experimental and correlational design. |
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| The group that all the other groups are being compared to. |
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| Independent variable for correlational designs. |
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| Dependent variable for correlational designs. |
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| Work with children from junior kinder-garden to grade 12. |
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| Work with crime and those involved in it. |
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| Involved in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems. |
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| Anyone who teaches or practices psychology. |
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| Anyone who completed Freudian training which includes medical qualification. |
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| Anyone with a medical qualification with a specialty in psychological problems. |
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| Anyone working on therapy from a psychological perspective. |
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| Individual nerve cells, responsible for carrying information. |
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| The communication centre of the body made up of billions of neurons. |
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| Specialized for sensing the outside world. |
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| Specialized for giving instructions to muscles. |
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| The biggest concentration of neurons in the vertebrate body found in the spinal cord and brain. |
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| Peripheral Nervous System |
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| Neurons found in body parts excluding the spinal cord and brain. |
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| Body which supports the nerve cell. |
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| Input end of a nerve which collects information. |
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| Output end of a nerve which sends information. |
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| Gap between the axon and the dendrite where information travels chemically. |
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| Chemicals that are released from the axon in the synapse. |
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| Certain bundles of neurons carry information to the brain while certain bundles of neurons carry information from the brain. |
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| Assumed that different parts of the brains had different functions and that if one part was exercised then it would grow and expand. |
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| Located on the left side of the brain above the ear, involved in language. |
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| In the 1800’s Paul Broca observed a dead patient who had speech problems and discovered damage tissue in “Broca’s Area”. |
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| Found that a slight electrical current could stimulate memories or even create experiences. Famous for the experiment with the seizures and burnt toast. |
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| When different areas of the brain take over the functions of a damaged part of the brain. |
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| Theory proposed in the 1960’s by Paul McLean referring to the theory of evolution and three stages of brain development. Reptile-like brain (similar to brain stem), simple mammal brain (similar to brain core), and complex mammal brain (similar to cortex or grey matter). |
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| Located at the top of the spinal cord and the bottom of the brain, responsible for the “life support” of the body. |
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| Located in the brain stem, responsible for controlling and coordinating muscles and movements. |
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| Located in the brain stem, closest to the spinal cord, responsible for breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure. |
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| Located in the brain stem, connects the brain core with the rest of the brain. |
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