Bim Flashcards
What does it study
Mind
Emotions
Behavior
Type of branches
Pure branches (research)
Applied branches
Research methods in psychology
Qualitative
Quantitative
Pure Branch:
Psychological Research
Descriptive( how/what)
Experimental (why) manipulate variables
Level explanation
Lower/ Biological
Middle / interpersonal
Higher/ sociocultural
Early psyvhologists
Greek y european philosophers
+ Plato : Nature
+ Aristotle : Nurture
Structuralism
Father of it: Wundt
Best in it: Bradford
Introduce scientific method
What is introspección?
How do you feel inside?
Functionalism/ evolutionary psyvhology
🧑🦱 William James
Why do people develop something from evolutionary perspective.
Psychodinamic
🧑🦱 Sigmund Freud
ID: unconsious. Basic instincts, hedonist
Ego: mediator
Super Ego: ¿good or bad? Society moral standards
Psychosexual Stages
Freud, you dont overcome them? FIXATION THEN
ORAL [birth, 1yr] task: weaning
ANAL [1/3yr] toilet train
PHALLIC [3/5yr] oedipus/ electra complex
LATENCY [5/ pubertad
GENITAL pubertad
Behaviourism
Study of behaviour without analizan mind
🧑🦱 Watson and Skinner
No free will
Stimulus - response
Stimulus -> Response
Behaviorisim
Cognitive approach
+ Thoughts influence behavior
+ How is the stimulus being interpreted
+ Study: processes Percepción
History: 60s (comouter tech) - cog. Psychology
Memory influenced by previous knowledge
Important people in Cog. Psychology
Ebbinghaus
Piaget
Bartlett
Humanismo
Maslow/ Rogers
Innate potencial for good
Maslow : Hierarchy of needs
Rogers: client centered therapy
Social Cultural Psychology
How people behave influenced by culture
Western: individualismo
East Asian: interdependence
Nervous system
Central nervous system
Peripheral nervous system
Neuron
Building Block of nervous system.
Receive and transmit information
They have….
Dendrites (100 a mil)
Axon
Myelin sheath
Terminal bottons
Process of Neuron is…
Electrochemical
Receives chemical substance, will make soma fire electrical impulse throught axon to terminal buttons that will release antoher chemical substance
Neuron potential…
Action Potential: shooting e. Imp
Resting Potential: isnt shooting eléctrical impulse
Neurotransmitters
Bodys chemical messangers
- Exitatory: more likely fire e. Imp
- Inhibitory: less likely fire e. Imp
Myelin Sheath
Fatty molecule that improves speed of communications and keeps electrical impulsos from shorting out other neurons
Axon
Specialized, send messages through spinal cord to muscles (very long)
