Psychology exam CLEP at SIUE
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| show | William James-Sought to explain the mental processes in a more systematic manner.
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| show | 1st school of psychology and focused on breaking down mental processes into basic components. Influenced experimental psychology
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| show | 1st psychology lab in Germany. His school of thought was structuralism
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| Psychoanalysis | show 🗑
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| show | Approach to psychology that empahsizes observable measurable behavior. (learning perspective)
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| Humanism | show 🗑
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| Hierarcy Of Needs | show 🗑
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| show | Branch of psychology that studies the mental process
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| Neurons | show 🗑
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| show | Tree-like extensions at the beginning of the neuron that help increase the surface area of the body and are covered with synapses. They receive info from other neurons and transmit electrical stimulation
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| show | Located at the end of the soma and controls the firing of the neuron.
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| Axon | show 🗑
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| Terminal buttons | show 🗑
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| Synapse | show 🗑
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| Central Nervous System (CNS) | show 🗑
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| show | Autonomic-regulates internal environment. Carries info from CNS to smooth muscle glands.Somatic-Carries info to CNS from the senses and from teh CNS to skeletal muscles
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| Medulla | show 🗑
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| show | (hindbrain) Regulation of sleep-wake cycle
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| show | (hindbrain) Reflexes (balance) coordinates movement
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| Midbrain | show 🗑
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| show | (forebrain) Major messages relay center. Regulates higher brain centers and PNS
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| Hypothalamus | show 🗑
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| show | (Cerebral Hemispheres) Receives and processes visual info.
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| Temporal Lobe | show 🗑
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| show | Sensory projection, visual and spatial abilities
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| show | Goal directed behavior, concentration, motor projection, coordinate messages from other lobes
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| Hemispheric Specialization | show 🗑
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| show | Network of nuerons running through the hindbrain, midbrain and forebrain that serve to arouse the higher parts of the brain.
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| show | Ring of structures that work together to play an essential role in the formation of new membraines and influence emotion.
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| show | Complex cable of nerves that connects the brin to most of the rest of the body. Long nerves fibers have 2 basic functions:1)permit some reflect movement2) carry messages to brain
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| Endocrine Systems | show 🗑
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| 5 Stages of Personality Development (Freud) | show 🗑
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| Thyroid Gland | show 🗑
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| Parathyroid | show 🗑
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| show | Interactive role of hereditary (nature) and environment (nuture)
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| Pineal Gland | show 🗑
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| Pituatary Gland | show 🗑
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| show | Testes in a male, ovaries in female
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| Adrenal Glands | show 🗑
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| Evolution | show 🗑
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| Evolutionary Pyschology | show 🗑
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| show | Passive process of bringing information from the outside world into the body and brain.
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| Perception | show 🗑
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| show | Decision making process as well as sensory processNoise-how much oustide interference existsCriterion-level of assurance that you decide must be met before you take action
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| Visual System | show 🗑
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| Cornea | show 🗑
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| show | Transparent structure that focuses onto retina
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| Retina | show 🗑
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| show | Opening at the center of the iris which controls the amount of light
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| Rods | show 🗑
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| Cones | show 🗑
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| Trichoromatic | show 🗑
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| Opponent Process Theory | show 🗑
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| show | Figure Ground-organize visual perceptionSimplicity-good form, grouping elements to make good formProximity-nearness, objects that are close often perceived at belonging togetherSimiliarity-sameContinuity-follow whatever direction we are led
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| Illusions | show 🗑
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| Perception of Pain | show 🗑
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| Gates Control Theory (Melzack & Walls) | show 🗑
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| show | Ability to feel pain, pressure, other sensations in limbs that are not there (either amputated or born without)
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| show | Hypersuggestible or easily influenced. Can be described as imagined involvement
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| show | Calming and focusing the mind, highly developed in Eastern cultures such as India and Japan
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| Psychoactive Drugs | show 🗑
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| Lucid Dream | show 🗑
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| show | Process leading to relatively permanent behavior change or potential change. John B. Watson-As we learn we alter the way we perceive our environment, the way we interpret stimuli and therefore, the way we act or behave.
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| B. F. Skinner | show 🗑
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| Behavioral Psychology | show 🗑
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| Classical Conditioning | show 🗑
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| show | How an organism results/operates in the environment. Ex: Cat in box with only one way out...cat first tries to get out different ways, once it relizes the best way out, if put back in the box, continues to take the same course of action right away
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| Reinforcment | show 🗑
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| show | Schedule that refers to applying reinforcement after specific number of behaviors.
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| Fixed Interval | show 🗑
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| Variable Ratio | show 🗑
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| Variable Interval | show 🗑
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| 6 Steps to Scientific Method | show 🗑
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| Positive Correlation | show 🗑
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| show | Remembering info in the beginning and end but not so much in the middle
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| show | Group that is treated identically to the experimental group but does not receive the independent variable.
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| show | Two variables move in opposite directions one factor increases while the other decreases
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| show | Hamn nature is naturally positive and growth seeking
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| Cognitive Perspective | show 🗑
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| Descriptive/Correlational Methodology | show 🗑
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| show | we forget for a reason
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| show | Genetics and biological processes in the brain and nervous system
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| show | The Group that recieves independent variable (manipulated by expermientor)
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| Chunking | show 🗑
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| Sample Bias | show 🗑
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| show | We are only aware of basic incoming info, you obtain names o students and repeat over and over.
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| show | Repeating info to obtain and maintain in short term memory
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| show | 1st stage of memory that holds sensory info
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| Experimentor Bias | show 🗑
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| Pscyhoandytic Perspective | show 🗑
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| Elaborative Rehearsal | show 🗑
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| 4 Goals of Psychology | show 🗑
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| show | Behavioral
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| show | Experimental
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| show | Operational Definition
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| show | An action potential
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| A neuron is said to be polarized when... | show 🗑
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| show | an extra chromosome
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| show | 23
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| Damge to an individual's parietal lobe would most likely result in... | show 🗑
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| In adults, total sensory deprivation for long periods produces... | show 🗑
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| show | Color afterimages
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| show | hair cells on the basilar membrane
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| show | Rapid low amplitude waves
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| Sleep pattern which is less prevelant in adults | show 🗑
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| Hypnosis is most used for | show 🗑
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| Variable ratio only | show 🗑
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| show | Making the amount of time a child can spend on playing video games contingent on the amount of time the child spends practicing the piano.
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| show | Ivan Pavlov conditioned/unconditioned responses and stimulus
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| show | Ex: Teacher tells a child to sit down in class, over the course of several days the child is standing more and more frequently, only to be told to sit down each time.
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| Secondary Reinforcer | show 🗑
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| Stimulus Generalization | show 🗑
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| show | Learned by lateral inferences
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| show | Ex: If on the last day of psychology class a student is asked to remember what was done in class each day. Most likely only going to be able to remember the beginning and the end. Nothing in the middle
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| Proactive Interference | show 🗑
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| show | Rapid learning in a new situation
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| show | Research has shown that students generally perform better if tested in the same room where they did their learning.
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| Forgetting curve | show 🗑
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| Information Processing Theory | show 🗑
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| show | Always guarantee a solution in problem solving
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| Heuristic | show 🗑
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| show | usually deductive, thinking in which ideas are examined for their logical validity or in which a set of rules is followed, e.g. in arithmetic
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| show | Low and high levels of arousal lead to poorest performance
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| show | Example: A woman who is cold puts on a coat
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| show | Both levels of attraction and aversion increase.
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| Preoperational Thought | show 🗑
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| Elisabeth Kubler Ross Stages of dealing with death | show 🗑
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| show | Egocentric Thinking
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| show | reasoning that constructs or evaluates deductive arguments.
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| show | Ex: When insulted by a friend Sally's first impulse was to strike him. Instead, she yelled loudly and kicked a door.
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| Sublimation | show 🗑
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| Collective unconscious | show 🗑
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| show | Ex: Lawrence is pessimistic, rigid, and moody. Hans Eysenck
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| The key distinction between personality trait and attitude is... | show 🗑
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| A diagnosis of schizophrenia typically includes | show 🗑
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| Etiology | show 🗑
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| Obsession | show 🗑
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| show | characterized chiefly by physical complaints
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| Personality disorders are characterized by | show 🗑
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| show | temporary loss of memory
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| show | Depression
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| show | Similarity, Proximity, and familiarity
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| Altruism | show 🗑
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| Research on the effectiveness of psychotherapy has indicated... | show 🗑
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| Cognitive Therapy | show 🗑
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| Bystander Effect | show 🗑
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| Robert Sternberg's love theory | show 🗑
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| show | turnover
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| show | dispositional
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| Foot in the door | show 🗑
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| show | standard deviation of 11.2
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| show | studying brain activity
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| Generalization | show 🗑
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| The measure of central tendency can be easily distorted by unusually high or low scores | show 🗑
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| show | an increase in eating disorder
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| Temperament classification | show 🗑
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| Systematic Desensitization | show 🗑
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