Chapters 1-3 Flashcards
Part of the brain associated with formation of memories
Hippocampus
Brain and Spinal Cord
CNS
Associated with Pain and Pleasure Response
Endorphins
Fatty Material that acts like insulation
Myelin Sheath
Fluent and understandable speech
Brocas
Branches from the cell body that recieves signals
Dendrites
Sleep dreaming arousal and left right coordination
Pons
Part of brain associated with attention and arousal
Reticular Formation
Switching station that sends messages to appropriate areas of the cortex
Thalamus
Scaffolding that guides and supporta neurons
Glial cells
Contains primary auditory cortex
Temporal lobe
Part of the brain coordinating posture. muscle tone, and learned reflexes
Cerebellum
Fear response and memory of fearful stimuli
Amygdala
Nerves and neurons that are not part of the brain and spinal cord
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
What is Psychology?
Psychology refers to the scientific study of the mind and behavior.
What is Functionalism
Functionalism focused on how mental activities helped an organism fit into its environment. Functionalists were more interested in
the operation of the whole mind rather than of its individual parts,
Who established functionalism?
William James, John Dewey, and Charles Sanders Pierce
What is Structuralism
Understanding the conscious experience through introspection, it focuses on the contents of the mental process rather then function. Whole psyhchology, rection time
Who developed structuralism
Wilhelm Wundt
Gestalt Psychology
Gestalt psychology deals with the fact that although a sensory experience can be broken down into individual parts, how those parts relate to each other as a whole is often what the individual responds to in perception
Who developed Gestalt Psychology
Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, Wolfgang Köhler
What is Behaviorism?
Behaviorism focused on making psychology an objective science by focusing on observing and controlling behavior
Who is the father of behaviorism
John Watson
Biopsychology
study of how biology influences behavior (panelope)