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Psychology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Brain for horror films | Amygdala |
| Brain for "new love" | ventral tegmental area |
| Brain breakup | pain, distress, and reward |
| Clive wearing | Amnesia, short-term memory, still preform learned skills |
| Phineas Gage | Frontal lobe syndrome. tamping iron impaled frontal lobe, rude, gross profanity |
| Frontal lobe syndrome | change in personality due to frontal lobe damage |
| Wilhem Wundt | "Atoms of the mind". Birth of phycology |
| William James | associate biology and psychology. |
| Sigmund Freud | unconscious mind and its effects on human behavior. |
| John Watson | study of behavior |
| Rogers emphasis | Current environmental influences on our growth potential and our need for love and acceptance. |
| "Little Albert" experiment | learned to fear white rat. From conditioning |
| Neuroscience | brain and body enables emotions |
| Behavior genetics and epigenetic | genes and environmental influence individual differences |
| Psychodynamics | behavior from unconscious drives conflicts |
| Behavioral | Learn observable responses |
| Cognitive | encode, process and store information |
| Social- Culture | Behavior and thinking across cultures |
| 3 qualities to scientific attitude | Curiosity, skepticism, and humility |
| What is essential to critical thinking | examines evidence, no emotion |
| Limits of intuition | Bias |
| Theory | explains observations using organized ideas |
| hypothesis | testable prediction |
| Descriptive | observe and record behavior |
| correlational | measures relationships |
| experimental | tests cause and effect |
| causation | only experiments can establish it. |
| Correlation coefficient | measures relationship between variables. Range -1, +1. . Closer to +_ stronger relationship, Closer to 0- weaker relationship |
| independent variable | factor manipulated. (IV- I change it) |
| dependent variable | may change in response to indenpendent variables (DV- data I measure) |
| Random assignment | participants in random group |
| Double-blind | participants and researchers do not know who is receiving treatment. |
| random sampling | selects participants randomly from a population |
| prosopagnosia | cannot recognize faces. damage to social brain. no eye damage |
| akinetopsia | cannot properly perceive motion. bilateral brain damage to border of temporal and occipital lobe. no eye damage |
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