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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| show | to self examine our emotional states and mental processes
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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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| show | (Hermann Ebbinghaus and Max Wertheimer) focuses on the organization of perception and thinking in a "whole" sense rather than on the individual elements of perception
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| show | objects near each other tend to be grouped together
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| Law of Closure | show 🗑
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| Margaret Floy Washburn | show 🗑
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| Leta Stetter Hollingworth | show 🗑
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| show | Studied memory, first female president of the american psychological association
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| Karen Horney | show 🗑
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| June Etta Downey | show 🗑
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| show | Notable contributions to the treatment of abnormal behavior
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| Mamie Phipps Clark | show 🗑
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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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| behavioral Perspective | show 🗑
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| cognitive perspective (information processing) | show 🗑
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| show | (Carl Rogers, and Abraham Maslow) Individuals naturally strive to grow, develop, and be in control of their lives and behavior
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| show | the scientific study of behavior (what we do) and mental processes (inner thoughts and feelings)
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| nature vs nurture | show 🗑
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| clinical psychologist | show 🗑
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| show | medical professionals who use treatments like drugs and psychotherapy to treat psychologically diseased patients
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| The scientific method | show 🗑
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| show | greater the number of bystanders in an emergency situation, the smaller the share of the responsibility each person feels
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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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| show | two sets of variables are examined to determine whether they are associated, or "correlated"
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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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| Negative Correlation | show 🗑
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| show | when one trait or behavior accompanies another, we say the two correlate.
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| show | is a statistical measure of the relationship between two variables
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| show | 1) Maintains naturalness in observation, no artifical setting 2) Takes into account variables you cannot control 3) More economical in terms of time, effort, expense because conditions already exist.
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| show | 1) Cannot draw cause-effect statement from correaltion 2) Third variables or spurious relationship may exist.
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| Experiment | show 🗑
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| show | all terms used in a descriptive statement must be defined by some observable measurement. Most basic component of research.
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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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| show | an explanation that integrates principles and organizes and predicts behavior or events
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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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| show | that which you are measuring ( usually a behavior or a mental process.
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| show | a factor manipulated by the experimenter. The effect of the independent variable is the focus of the study
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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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| random assignment | show 🗑
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| control group | show 🗑
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| show | exposed to the independent variable
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| show | meaningful results, make it possible for researchers to feel confident that they have confirmed their hypotheses
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| show | research that is repeated
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| APA Ethical Guidelines | show 🗑
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| Informed Consent | show 🗑
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| show | factors that distort the way the independent variable affects the dependent variable in an experiment
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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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| show | the body's information system is built from billions of interconnected cells called: they are nerve cells, building blocks of our nervous system, have a nucleus which incorporates hereditary material, and they have cell membranes
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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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| show | long single extension of a neuron, covered with Myelin sheath. Takes information away from the cell body.
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| show | hold neurons in place, provide nourishment, insulate, repair damage
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| show | thin covering over the axon that helps speed up movement of message down the axon
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| terminal buttons | show 🗑
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| action potential | show 🗑
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| how neurons fire | show 🗑
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| threshold | show 🗑
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| synapse | show 🗑
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| neurotransmitters | show 🗑
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| show | increase likelihood that neuron will fire
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| show | decrease likelihood that neuron will fire
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| reuptake | show 🗑
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| Types of neurotransmitters | show 🗑
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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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| dopamine | show 🗑
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| serotonin | show 🗑
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| show | natural opiates released in response to pain and vigorous exercise
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| show | consists of all the nerve cells. It is the body's speedy, electrochemical communication system.
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| show | the brain and spinal cord
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| Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) | show 🗑
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| show | acts to prepare the body for action in stressful situations by engaging all of the organism's resources to run away or confront the threat "fight or flight"
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| Parasympathetic Division | show 🗑
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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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| Hormones | show 🗑
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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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