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The science of mind and behavior |
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What is Mana's definiton of psychology? |
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Psychology is the scientific investigation of mind, brain, and behavior. |
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Unobservable, private, inner states. Love, envy, happy |
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Observable, measurable actions such as language, feeding, etc |
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The organ of mind and behavior. Processes sensory information, generates behavior. |
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Age old argument about whether our behavior is a function of our genes or our environment. |
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Greek philosopher who believed in nativism, what we know, we know from birth (NATURE) |
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famous greek philosopher, trested our sense, as we learn through experience (nuture) associative learning |
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"I think therefore I am". Idea of free will, a dualist. Mind body are seperate. |
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Proposed specific parts of the brain are responsible for specific behavior (localization of function) |
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Prposed the brain would expand of contract. Muscle brain that would grow. Phrenology |
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Father of scientific psychology. Established lab in 1877. Understanding introspection and reaction times to study mind. |
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Proposed that humans were related to all other living species. Evolutionary. |
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What did Darwin emphasize? |
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Functionalist (behaviors should generally promote the survial of reproductive capacity of an organism) |
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first American psychologist. Mind had to be looked at as a whole. Applied psychology |
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Brain didn't process things in pieces . Must be looked at as a whole. Father of Gestalt psychology. |
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Trained as a medical doctor. Adult behavior is unconciously influenced by early experience. "psychoanalysis" |
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Discouraged by the darkness and negativism of psychoanalysis. Maslow's hiarchy of needs |
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Famous russian psychologist, dog salivating |
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FATHER OF BEHAVIORISM
-believed that behavior is compeltely determined by the environment and behavior |
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Emphasized reinforcement on behavior. Do things that increase pleasure. Power of reinforcement. |
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A person's ability to attend to different streams of information. What to pay attention to. |
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Cognitive psychology, emphasized understanding how people process information. |
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Search for the engram (where memories are stored) thought memory could not be localized to a certain part of the brain. (wrong) |
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Father of behavioral neuroscience. |
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The way culture can effect the mind and behavior |
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When different cultures differ from others |
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To describe, explain, predict, control, and improve behavior |
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Revolutionized our study of the world around us. Laid out a formal set of rules to follow when trying to understanding things. |
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1. Specifiy problem 2. Develop Operational Definitions 3. Form a hypothesis 4. Design study 5. Conduct study to test hypothesis 6. Form a Theory 7. Test it, bitch |
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Ways to collect data/test theories |
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1. Descriptive studies 2. Correlational Study 3. Experiments 4. Quasi-Experiments |
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Good Research Designs Will: |
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A) Reduce Bias B) Control Experimenter Expactancy C) Maintain high ethical standards |
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Fundamental information-processing unit of the nervous system! 100 billion! Electrical signals! |
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1) Cell Body 2)Cell Membrane 3)Dendrites 4) Axon 5) Myelin 6) Terminal Region |
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A skin like membrane of fat, contains protein |
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Site of communication with other neurons-recieve information and convey cell body |
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Long, thin process, that takes information away from cell body |
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Sppeds movement of electrical signals along axon |
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The end of the axon that establisheds contact with other cells (synapse) |
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Sensory, Interneurons, Motor |
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1) Peripheral Nervous System 2) Spinal Cord 3)Brain Stem 4)Cerebellum 5) Cerebal Hemispheres |
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Peripheral Nervous System |
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Somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system. |
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involved in touch, pain, temperature, proprioception, movement of limbs |
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contorl of smooth muscles, and glands, digesting (what we can't control) |
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extends from Medulla(base of the brain) contains motor paths as well as interneurons intrinsic cirucitry |
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contains ascending pathways that carry info to the brain
eyemovement , nervous system |
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Intergrates sensory input/motor information to control and coordinate fine movements posture/attention, etc |
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dominant feature of human brain, buldges of cortex. concious action, language, morality, abstract thought. 2 sides are connected by corpus callosum |
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Sensations from, and movement on left side of the body also involved in shape recognition |
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Sensations from and movement on right side of the body. Language, reasoning. |
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human lobe-key area for language, learning, movement, attention, affect |
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includes areas such as the hippocampus/memory, emotions, high-order visual processing |
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Key are for somatosensation and sensory information |
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association cortex involved in processing information |
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