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Psychology!
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Established first psychology laboratory at the Univ. of Leipez | Wilhelm Wundt |
| Controversial ideas of famous personality Theorist and Theopist influenced humanities self-understandment | Sigmund Freud |
| Legendary teacher-writer of psychology. His student became famous for her memory research and 1st women president of the American Psychological Ass. | William James & Mary Whiton Calkins |
| First Woman to receive a psychology Ph.D at Harvard she focused on animal behavior research on Animal mind | Margaret Floy Washburn |
| Championed psychology as the scientific study of behavior. Both showed fear could by learned, in experiments on a baby who became famous as "little albert" | Rosalie Rayner |
| Leading Behavorist rejected the idea of studying inner thoughts and feelings. He studied how consequences shape behavior | B.F Skinner |
| Scientific study of behavior and mental processes | Psychology |
| Science supports thinking that examines assumptions, uncovers hidden values, weighs, evidence, and tests conclusions. Science aided thinking is smart thinking | Critical Thinking |
| Considers three sets of influences: biological, psychological, and social-cultural. | Biopsychosocial approach |
| -genetic predispostions -genetic mutations -natural selection of adaptive phsiology and behaviors -genes responding to the enviroments | Biological Influences |
| -learned fears and other learned expectations -emotional responses -cognitive processing and perceptual Interpretations | Psychological Influences |
| -presence of others -cultural, societal, and family expectations -peer and other group influences -compelling models(such as in the media) | Social-cultural Influences |
| the study of positive emotions, positive character traits, enabling institutions | Positive Psychological |
| The I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon | Hindsight bias |
| Behaviors or events by offering ideas that organize what we have observed | Theory |
| Predictions that let us test the theory | Hypothesis |
| Examines one individual in great depth, in the hope of revealing things true of us all | Case Study |
| Questions about sexual practices to political opinions get put to the public | Survey |
| Statistical measure helps us find how closely two things vary together and thus how well either one predicts the other | Correlation |
| 1)manipulating the factors of interest 2)holding constant("controlling") other factors | Experiments |
| receives treatment | Experimental group |
| Without the treatment | Control group |
| Survey, Questions, read,Rehearse, Review | SQ3R |
| Nerve Cell | Neuron |
| Fibers receive messages and conduct them toward the cell body | Dendrite |
| Sends out messages to other neurons or to muscles or gland | Axon |
| Messages that neurons carry are nerve impulses | Action Potentials |
| Meeting Places: two neurons are seperated by tiny gap less than a millionth of an inch wide. | Synapses |
| At the synapse, the impulse triggers the release of __ molecules | Neurotransmitter |
| The brain and Spinal chord: the body's decision maker | Central nervous system(cns) |
| responsible for gathering information and for transmitting CNS decisions to other body parts | Peripheral Nervous System(PNS) |
| Electrical cables formed bundles of axons, link the central nerve system with the body's sensory receptors, muscles, and glands | Nerves |
| Carry messages from the body's tissues and sensory receptors inward to the brain and spinal chord, for processing. | Sensory neurons |
| The central nervous system thedn sends instructions out to the body's tissue via the ___ | The Motor neurons |
| Controls voluntary movements of our skeletal muscles | Somatic nervous system |
| Controls your glands and the muscles of yout internal organs, including those of your heart and digestive system | Autonomic nervous system |
| The division of autonomic nervous system that arouses the body, mobilizing its energy in stressful situations | Sympathetic nervous System |
| the division of the automatic nervous system that calms the body, conserving its energy | Parasympathetic nervous system |
| The brains oldest and innermost region. beginning where the spinal chord swells as it enters the skull: responsible for automatic survival functions | Brainstem |
| area at top of brainstem, directs sensory messages to the cortex anda transmitts replies to the cerebellum and medulla | Thalamus |
| Recording Apparutus, using electrodes placed on the scalp, thawt records waves of electrical activity that sweep across the brain's surface | EEG(Electroencephalograph) |
| a view of brain activity showing where a radioactive form of glucose goes while the brain performs a given task | PET(positron emission tomogrphy) |
| a technique that uses magnetic fields and radio waves to produce computer-generated images of soft tissue. Scans show brain anatomy | MRI(magnetic resonance imaging) |
| an individuals characteristics pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting | Personality |
| Frued's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; The techniques used in treating __ disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions | Psychoanalysis |
| a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressives drives. Operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification | id |
| the largely conscious 'executive' part of personality that balances the demands of the id, superego, and reality | Ego |
| The part of personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement(conscious) | Superego |
| the childhood stages of developmental(oral,anal,phallic,latency,genital)during which the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones | psychosexual stages |
| in psychoanalytic theory,the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality | Defense mechanisms |
| Maslow's pyramid of human needs; at the base are physiological needs that must be satisfied before higher-level saftey needs, and then psychological needs, became active | Hierachy of needs |
| According to maslow, the psychological need that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self esteem is achieved; the motivation to fulfill our potential | self-actualization |
| your feelings of high or low self worth | Self-esteem |
| giving priority to our own goals over group goals and defining our identity in terms of personal traits rather than group membership | Individualism |
| The base of the brain stem; controls heartbeat and breathing | Medulla |
| get information into the brain | Encoding |
| The retention of encoded information overtime | Storage |
| Process of Getting information back out of memory storage | Retrieval |
| the immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system | Sensory Memory |
| activated memory that holds a few items breifly, such as the 7 digits of a # while dialing, before the information is stored or forgotten | Short-term memory |
| involves concsious, active processing of incoming information and of information retrieved from long-term memory | working memory |
| the relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. Includes knowledge,skills and experience | Long-term memory |
| unconscious encoding of everyday information such as space, time, frequency, and well-learned word meanings | Automatic Processing |
| encoding that requires attention and conscious effort | Effortful processing |
| The conscious repetition of information either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage | Rehearsal |
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