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| the scientific study of behavior and mental processes in contexts |
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| thinking, perception, language, memory |
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| "contexts" in definition of psychology |
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backgrounds-
medical,family, economic (financial), social, cultural, and previous psychiatric history |
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| emphasized the scientific method |
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| Darwin's theory of evolution and biological adaptation |
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| developed the first scientific psycholory laboratory |
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| theory of introspection; a structuralist |
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| soft hearted vs. hard headed |
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| counselors vs. lab psychologists |
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| looks at environment and events (not emotion) as the cause of behavior |
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unconcious aspects of the mind
one of the six contemporary perspectives |
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| American Psychological Association |
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| largest organization of psychologists; founded by G. Stanley Hall |
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| founding father of behaviorism |
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| psychoanalytic that focused on internal conflicts |
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| biological term vs. sociocultural term |
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one of the contemporary perspectives;
everybody has the potential for growth |
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| most widely practiced area of psychology is clinical and counseling |
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| approach used to discover accurate information or setablish meaningful relations about mind and behavior |
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| steps of the scientific method |
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| analyze a problem, formulate an explanation, collect data (contexts) use statistical procedures to interpret data, draw conclusions, confirm/revise |
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| everyone has an equal chance of being selected; rules out bias |
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| laboratories and observation |
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| two types of research settings are -- (greater control)and -- (real-world settings) |
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| assessment measure that is the most personal |
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| describes the relation between two or more events/characteristics |
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methods that provide the deepest level of explanation (cause and effect)
usually in lab settings |
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| ethical treatment of humans/animals |
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| 1. informed consent 2. cannot cause physical, mental, or emotional harm 3. you have the right to withdraw at any time 4. all information is confidential |
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| public information not always credible |
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| groub results are often individualized or studies of small samples are over generalized means that |
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| genes/bilogical inheritance vs. environment |
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| species may change over time through natural selection |
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| behavior is motivated by a desire to dominate the gene pool |
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| biological concept vs. sociocultural concept |
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| made of brain and spinal cord |
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| peripheral nervous system |
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| connects brain and spinal cord to other parts of the body |
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| axon, dendrite and cell body |
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| nerve impulse; action potential |
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| impulse carried along the neuron as a brief wave of electrical charge which sweeps down the axon |
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| chemicals spweed into the synapse to allow messages to be carried across synapse |
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| location in an axon where neurotransmitters are stored |
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| reactions of neurotransmitters can either be -- or -- |
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