Psych Exam 1 Mom Word Scramble

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Question	Answer
Psychology began with......	Philosophy


Functionalism William James	Adopt mental process to survive "makes sense to do something"



Current Defination of Psych	The science of mental procesess and behavior









Correlation	-8.9 is still bigger than +3.2 - number shows strength


Phernology	extremely popularized theory on reading bumps on head to finding personality keys (Suto Science- can't be proved or dis-proved) Very Vague Ghaul

Autonomic	Involving things your body does... example, breathing/blinking/digestion/happen automatically/slow heart rate/pupils contract/kidney-liver function









Scientific Method	1. QUESTION 2. HYPOTHESIE 3. test 4. Result
Question- Can have Nature but not nurture	TRUE- CAN HAVE NATURE BUT NOT NURTURE
Websters Law	Just noticiable difference or differnce threshold
QUESTION- The rat is always right?	True- the rat is always right
Central Nervous System	Is Brain and Spinal cord
Adaptability	modify- adapt to conditions
The Nervous System	the bodies electrochemical communications circutary made up with billions of interconnecting cells
Bottom-up Processing	Begins with sensory receptors first time inforamation a person is not fam w/
Top Down Processing	Higher levels of cognitive processing; information someone is fam w/
Double Blind Procedure	Staff/participants are blind to who is receiving what
4 basic sensation when dealing with touch	Pressure, Pain, Warmth, Cold
Proximity	General assumptions because of placement (teacher sits with students, someone walks in, thinks/assumes teacher is student)
Correlation Span	Spans from -1.0 to 1.0
Critical Thinking	Smart thinking examines, assumptions discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence and asses conclusions
hypothesis	Educated guess- testable predictions
Theory	explains intergated principles & organizes observations/predicts behavior or events
sampling Techniques	case study- survery- naturalistic Observation
Case study	examines 1 individ indepth
survey	many cases, less depth, people report
Naturalistics	recording innat. behavior- Jane Goodell
Correlations	Spans from -1.0 to + 1.0 Positive same direction (2 up arrows... 2 down arrows) Negative (1 up arrow, 1 down arrow, 1 down arrow, 1 up arrow) Correlation does not equal causation. Helps predict but doesnt verify
Independent / Dependent Vari	Independent cause Dependent Effect. Inn manipulated dep- may change in response to manipulation
varaible
Experimental Design	1 or more variables are manipulated
Double Blind	Both staff and participate are blind to who is receiving what
Myelin	Insulates axons of some nerons helps speed impulses - multiple scerosis lack of communication with muscles
Action Potential	Brief electrical charge that travels down its axon. Fired by nerons
Neural Communications	Neural Transmitters when action potential reaches the terimals at the axons end it triggers the release of chemical messenges. Cross synaptic gap & bind to receptors sites on receiving neurons
Reputake	Sending neuron reabsorbs extra neurotransmitters
(3) types of nerons	sensory, motor an interneurons
Frontal Lobes	Behind forehead the personality-muscle movements, making plans/judgements LEFT AND RIGHT
Parietal Lobes	(Top and to the rear) Sensory input for touch and body position
Occipital lobes	Back of head- receives information from the visual fields
Temporal Lobes	Roughly above the ears- Auditory areas
Nature VS Nurture	Nature biology & genetics Nurture- how you are shaped by your enviroment
Individualism VS Collectivness	ind. more self-centered; care more about yourself than the whole. Collectivism- giving priorites to goals of ones group & defining ones identity accordingly
Sensation	Receiving stimilus energy from external eniveronment- you use your senses "you can see it"
Perception	Organizing and Interpreting information to give it meaning "The way you see it"
Absolute Thresh hold	Minimum amount of stimulation needed to detect something 50 % of the time
Difference Threshold	minimum amount of difference between two stimuli required for detection 50% of the time "Just noticable difference)
Types of Receptors	Cones and Rodes CONES- 6 mili daylight/well-lit conditions -colour RODS- 120 mili black and white and grey
Parelell Processing	Processing many aspects of a problem simulataneously- Natural mode of info process. like computers - step-by-step
Endorphins	"Morphin within" Natural Neurs transmitters- pain control & pleasure
Plasticity	Ability to change/modify after damage or by building new pathways based on experience
Chromosomes	males give 23X Females give 23XY Child has 46. girl: XX Boy XY Composed of DNA- biochemical units that make chromosomes=genes
Mutation	random error in gene replication that leads to change
Gender	Is biologically 7 socially influenced characterists by which people define male and female- which do you feel like. Sex is how your born
Gender roles	what we assign to the sex.. Males hould be non-emotional and tough and girls should be nurturing and emotional
Gender Identity	Our sense of being male or female
Natural Selection	Survival of the fittest- Charles Darwin- in ordewr to survive you have to adapt. traits that lead to increased survival/reproduction will most likely be passed on. can be nature but not nuture
Sensory Adaption	Dulling of the senses after constant stimulation of something
characteristics of the senses
Transduction	Conversion of one form of energy into another, Sight, smell, sounds into neutral impulses the brain can interpret
Vestibular sense	Sense of body movement and position including balance
PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION Proximity	grouping nearby figures together
PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION Similarity	grouping "similar" figures together
PRECEPTUAL ORGANIZATION Continuity	Smooth-noncomplex, continuous, patterns and simple
PRECEPTUAL ORANIZATION Connectedness	Uniformed/ linked - unit
PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION Closure	Fill in gaps to create a complete whole object
Gate Control Theory	Spinal coloumn contains a neutral gate that can be opened or closed. Open- Pain Closed-No pain Disproven
Binocular Cues	Judging distant by nearby objects
Retinal Disparity	Relative distance of different objects 3D
Moneculor Cues	Available to each eye seperately- light & shadow effect
Perceptual Set	Mental predispostion to preceive one thing but not the other
ESP Research	Perception can occur apart from sensory input. Telepathy, clairovoyance, precognition
Sympathetic	Fight or Flight
Para-sympathetic	rest or digest
Opperational Differences	"specific"
Mean	Add scores and divide for average
Mode	Most frequent occuring numbers
Median	Middle score- if equal amount- add the two numbers together and divide by 2
Range	Difference b/w highest and lowest scores
parts of the eye	Pupil, lens, iris, cornea, retina, fovea-blindspot, optic nerve
Parts of the ear	Hammer, Anvil, Cochlea, Eardrum, Stirrup, Oval Window

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