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| the science that studies behavior and mental processes |
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| What is the goal of psychology? |
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| to discover the law and principles that govern the relations among objects being studied |
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| 3 ways of doing psychology? |
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1. Applied psychological specialties IE. school psychologist, clinical psychologist.
2.Experimental psychologists
3.Psychology teachers |
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| Psychologist vs. Psychiatrist |
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psychiatrist>MD
psychologist>can't prescribe drugs in most states |
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| What is the stroop effect/automization? |
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| getting colors of words confused with the words thing. |
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| dreams reflect the unconscious |
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| Something with a lasting effect that changes the way you view the world |
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1.ask a question
2.develop a hypothesis
3.collect data
4.Analyze the results
5.publishing, criticizing, and replicating the results |
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| what is a naturalistic study? |
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| no interference with behavior |
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| What are the descriptive methods |
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1.naturalistic study
2.survey
3. case study |
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| 100 billion of them, also called nerves |
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| many short fibers from soma that receive activity from adjacent cells |
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| single fibers extending away from soma that transmits activity to other neurons, muscles, or glands |
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| space between where messages are transmitted? |
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| investigate relationship between two variables to determine whether they occur together or not in a systematic way |
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| cause and effect- manipulate independent variable to see effects on dependent variable |
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| enables muscle action, learning, and memory |
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| mood, hunger, sleep and arousal |
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a drug that binds to a cell and block an action from occuring
IE. curare blocks receptor sites for the muscles |
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a drug that binds to a cell and triggers a response by the cell
IE. isoproterenol- like adrenaline |
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| brain spinal cord (simple reflexes) |
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1.brainstem
2.limbic system
3.cerebral cortex |
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madulla(breathing, heartbeat)
reticular formation (arousal)
thalamus (sensory)
cerebellum (non-verbal) |
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| a ring of structures around brain stem |
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amygdala- linked to emotion and memory
hippocampus-helps in forming memories
hypothalamus-controls temp, matabolism, endocrine balance |
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| outer layer of right and left hemispheres |
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most complex aspects of behaivor
IE sensory info, motor control and speech |
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| part of the cerebral cortex |
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| damage to this area leads to loss of speech production, but not speech comprehension |
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| damage to area leads to loss of speech comprehension but not speech production. |
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| the fibers that connects the left and right hemisphere |
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| split brain people experiment |
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shown a cup to the left side "it is a cup"
can't tell you what it is when they show the right side |
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| computerized axial tomograph |
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| Position emission topography |
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| deal with voluntary actions |
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| the two divisions of the autonomic system |
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1. parasympathetic division- conserves and protects bodily resources
2. sympathetic nervous system- prepares body for emotional excitement (ie sweating)
broadcast news example
polygraph example |
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| secretes hormones into the bloodstream and deals with stress and basic body functions |
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| regulates level of sugar in blood |
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| sex drive (awwwwww yeahhhhhhh) |
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