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Schacter et al
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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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Mind
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Unobservable, private, inner states. Love, envy, happy
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Behavior
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Observable, measurable actions such as language, feeding, etc
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Brain
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The organ of mind and behavior. Processes sensory information, generates behavior.
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Nature v. Nurture
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Age old argument about whether our behavior is a function of our genes or our environment.
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Plato
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Greek philosopher who believed in nativism, what we know, we know from birth (NATURE)
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Aristotle
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famous greek philosopher, trested our sense, as we learn through experience (nuture) associative learning
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Descartes
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"I think therefore I am". Idea of free will, a dualist. Mind body are seperate.
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Gall
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Proposed specific parts of the brain are responsible for specific behavior (localization of function)
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Gall
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Prposed the brain would expand of contract. Muscle brain that would grow. Phrenology
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Wilhem Wundt
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Father of scientific psychology. Established lab in 1877. Understanding introspection and reaction times to study mind.
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Charles Darwin
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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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William James
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first American psychologist. Mind had to be looked at as a whole. Applied psychology
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Max Wertheimer
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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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Sigmund Freud
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Trained as a medical doctor. Adult behavior is unconciously influenced by early experience.  "psychoanalysis"
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Abraham Maslow
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Discouraged by the darkness and negativism of psychoanalysis.  Maslow's hiarchy of needs
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Ivan Pavlov
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Famous russian psychologist, dog salivating
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JB Watson
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FATHER OF BEHAVIORISM

-believed that behavior is compeltely determined by the environment and behavior

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B.F. Skinner
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Emphasized reinforcement on behavior. Do things that increase pleasure. Power of reinforcement.
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E. Tolman
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Latent learning work
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D.Broadbend
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A person's ability to attend to different streams of information. What to pay attention to.
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U. Neisser
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Cognitive psychology, emphasized understanding how people process information.
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K. Lashley
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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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D.O.Hebb
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Father of behavioral neuroscience.
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Cultural Psychology
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The way culture can effect the mind and behavior
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Relativism
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When different cultures differ from others
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Psychology's 5 goals
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To describe, explain, predict, control, and improve behavior
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Scientific Method
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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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Scientific Method Steps
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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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Neuron
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Fundamental information-processing unit of the nervous system! 100 billion! Electrical signals!
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6 parts to a neuron
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1) Cell Body 2)Cell Membrane 3)Dendrites 4) Axon 5) Myelin 6) Terminal Region
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Cell Body
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contains nucleus
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Cell membrane
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A skin like membrane of fat, contains protein
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Dendrites
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Site of communication with other neurons-recieve information and convey cell body
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Axon
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Long, thin process, that takes information away from cell body
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Myelin
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Sppeds movement of electrical signals along axon
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Terminal Region
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The end of the axon that establisheds contact with other cells (synapse)
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3 Main Types of Neurons
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Sensory, Interneurons, Motor 
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5 General Areas
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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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Somatic Nervous System
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involved in touch, pain, temperature, proprioception, movement of limbs
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Automatic
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contorl of smooth muscles, and glands, digesting (what we can't control)
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Spinal Cords
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extends from Medulla(base of the brain) contains motor paths as well as interneurons intrinsic cirucitry
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Brainstem
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contains ascending pathways that carry info to the brain

eyemovement , nervous system

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Cerebellum
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Intergrates sensory input/motor information to control and coordinate fine movements posture/attention, etc
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Cerebral Hempisheres
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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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Right Hemisphere
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Sensations from, and movement on left side of the body also involved in shape recognition
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Left Hempsiphere
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Sensations from and movement on right side of the body. Language, reasoning.
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Cortex-Frontal Lobe
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human lobe-key area for language, learning, movement, attention, affect
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Cortex: Temprotal Lobe
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includes areas such as the hippocampus/memory, emotions, high-order visual processing
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Cortex: Parietal Lobe
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Key are for somatosensation and sensory information
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Cortex: Occipital Lobe
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Key role in vision
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Much of cortex is:
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association cortex involved in processing information
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