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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| William James | show 🗑
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| Gesalt Psychology | show 🗑
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| show | objects near each other tend to be grouped together
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| show | objects grouped together are seen as a whole
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| show | First woman to receive a doctorate in psychology
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| show | One of the first psychologists to focus on child development and on women's issues
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| show | Studied memory, first female president of the american psychological association
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| show | focused on the social and cultural factors behind personality
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| show | First woman to head a psychology department at a state university
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| Anna Freud | show 🗑
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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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| psychology | show 🗑
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| show | the controversy over the relative contributions of biology and experience
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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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| show | approach used by psychologists to systematically acquire knowledge and understanding about behavior and other phenomena of interest
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| diffusion of responsibility | show 🗑
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| descriptive research | show 🗑
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| show | observing subjects in natural environments
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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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| Variables | show 🗑
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| Positive Correlation | show 🗑
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| Negative Correlation | show 🗑
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| Correlation | show 🗑
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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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| 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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| 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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| theory | show 🗑
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| hypothesis | show 🗑
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| exploring cause and effect | show 🗑
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| show | that which you are measuring ( usually a behavior or a mental process.
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| independent variable | show 🗑
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| extraneous variables | show 🗑
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| population | show 🗑
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| show | group chosen to represent the population
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| random sample | show 🗑
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| show | Ss must be randomly assigned to group
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| show | not exposed to the independent variable. provides a baseline
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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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| show | protect from physical and mental harm, participants' right to privacy regarding behavior, assurance that participation is voluntary, informing participants about procedures
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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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| experimenter expectations | show 🗑
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| show | tendency of subjects to behave in a way they think they should behave
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| neurons | show 🗑
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| show | life support center of the neuron
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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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| glial cells | show 🗑
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| show | thin covering over the axon that helps speed up movement of message down the axon
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| show | end of axon, sends messages to other neurons impulses
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| show | a brief electrical charge that travels down an axon and is generated by the movement of positively charged atoms in and out of channels in the axon's membrane.
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| how neurons fire | show 🗑
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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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| show | a junction between the axon tip of the sending neuron and the dendrite or cell body of the recieving neuron. This tiny gap is called the synaptic gap or cleft
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| show | neurotransmitters(chemicals) released from the sending neuron travel across the synapse and bind to receptor sites on the recieving neuron, thereby influencing it to generate an action potential.
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| excitatory messages | show 🗑
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| inhibitory messages | show 🗑
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| reuptake | show 🗑
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| Types of neurotransmitters | show 🗑
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| acetylcholine | show 🗑
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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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| show | the sensory and motor neurons that connect the central nervous system (CNS) to the rest of the body
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| Sympathetic Division | show 🗑
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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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| 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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