LCCC Psychology
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| 1879? | show 🗑
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| show | looking at specific atoms of the mind ( or structures)
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| Introspection | show 🗑
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| show | concentrated on how behavior functions and the role of behavior in allowing people to adapt to their environments
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| Gesalt Psychology | show 🗑
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| Law of Proximity | show 🗑
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| Law of Closure | show 🗑
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| show | First woman to receive a doctorate in psychology
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| Leta Stetter Hollingworth | show 🗑
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| Mary Calkins | show 🗑
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| Karen Horney | show 🗑
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| show | First woman to head a psychology department at a state university
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| show | Notable contributions to the treatment of abnormal behavior
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| show | Pioneered work on how children of color grew to recognize racial differences
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| Neuroscience Perspective | show 🗑
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| show | (Sigmund Freud) behavior is motivated by unconscious inner forces over which the individual has little control
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| show | (John B. Watson, B. F. Skinner, and Ivan Pablob) focuses on observable behavior that can be measured objectively
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| cognitive perspective (information processing) | show 🗑
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| humanistic perspective | show 🗑
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| psychology | show 🗑
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| nature vs nurture | show 🗑
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| show | studies assesses, and treats troubled people with psychotherapy
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| psychiatrists | show 🗑
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| The scientific method | show 🗑
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| diffusion of responsibility | show 🗑
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| show | designed to systematically investigate a person, group or pattern of behavior
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| naturalistic observation | show 🗑
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| show | A technique in which one person is studied in depth to reveal underlying behavioral principles. It can be more than one person in unique or unusual situations.
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| Correlational Studies | show 🗑
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| show | Behaviors, events, or other characteristics that can change, or vary, in some way
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| show | a high (low) value on X tends to be associated with a high (low) value on Y
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| show | a high value on X tends to be associated with a low value on Y
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| show | when one trait or behavior accompanies another, we say the two correlate.
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| Correlation Coefficient | show 🗑
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| Strengths of Correlation Method | show 🗑
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| Weaknesses of Correlation Method | show 🗑
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| show | Investigating relationship between two or more variables by 1)changing one variable in a controlled situation 2)observing the effects of that change on other aspects of the situation
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| Operational Definition | show 🗑
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| show | all variables in experiment are being systematically processed so that not more than one variable is changing at a given time
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| theory | show 🗑
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| show | a testable prediction, often prompted by a theory, to enable us to accept, reject or revise the theory
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| show | Experimenters 1)Exert control 2)introduce variables 3)manipulate variables and 4)measure results in terms of a dependent variable
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| dependent variable | show 🗑
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| independent variable | show 🗑
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| show | conditions experimenters try to prevent from affecting experiment
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| population | show 🗑
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| sample | show 🗑
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| show | every person has equal chance of being chosen for the experiment
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| show | Ss must be randomly assigned to group
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| control group | show 🗑
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| experimental group | show 🗑
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| significant outcome | show 🗑
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| show | research that is repeated
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| APA Ethical Guidelines | show 🗑
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| show | participates sign a document affirming that they know: the basic outlines of the study, what their participation will involve, the risks the experiment may hold, that their participation is purely voluntary, and they may terminate the study at any time
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| Experimental Bias | show 🗑
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| show | Experimenters unintentionally transmit cues to subjects about the way they are expected to behave in experimental condition: this affects outcome
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| participant expectations | show 🗑
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| neurons | show 🗑
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| cell body | show 🗑
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| show | recieve messages from other neurons and bring information toward the cell body
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| axon | show 🗑
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| glial cells | show 🗑
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| myelin sheath | show 🗑
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| show | end of axon, sends messages to other neurons impulses
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| action potential | show 🗑
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| show | transmit an electrical impulse along the axon all-or-none law, resting state, action potential, mirror neurons
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| show | each neuron recieves excitatory and inhibitory signals from many neurons. When the excitatory signals minus the inhibitory signals exceed a minimum intensity(threshold) the neuron fires an action potential.
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| synapse | show 🗑
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| neurotransmitters | show 🗑
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| excitatory messages | show 🗑
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| inhibitory messages | show 🗑
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| show | reabsorption by the terminal button (SSRIs)
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| show | acetylcholine, gamma-amino butyric acid, dopamine, serotonin, and endorphins
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| show | found at every junction between motor neuron and skeletal muscle; causes muscle to contract plays vital role in learning, memory, and muscle movement
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| show | influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion
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| show | involved with mood regulation, hunger, sleep, and arousal
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| show | natural opiates released in response to pain and vigorous exercise
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| Nervous System | show 🗑
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| Central Nervous System (CNS) | show 🗑
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| Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) | show 🗑
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| Sympathetic Division | show 🗑
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| show | calms the body after emergency ends
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| show | the body's "slow" chemical communication system. Communication is carried out by hormones synthesized by a set of glands.
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| show | chemicals synthesized by the endocrine glands that are secreted in the bloodstream. hormones affect the brain and many other tissues in the body.
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| show | the "master gland". The anterior pituitary lobe releases hormones that regulate other glands. The posterior lobe regulates water and salt balance.
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