Class Notes Flashcards
psychology is a … science, measuring variables that do not seem to be measurable (e.g. attraction, anger)
creative
operational definition: defining terms for particular
contexts
survey is the …, not …
methodology; questionnaire
frontal lobe controls most complex … and …
human thoughts; behaviors
hind brain controls … and …
hearbeat; breathing
midbrain (aka …): controls …; … or …; …
reptilian brain; emotions; fight; flight; memory
front brain/forebrain: inhibits
emotions
inferential research is trying to predict through … and …
statistics; patterns
interviews give more …, but it takes more …
in-depth information; time
random sampling is necessary because people arrange themselves in
noncoincidental ways
The closer a correlation is to 1, the … the correlation
stronger
perfect bell curve occurs when …, …, and … are the same
mean; mode; median
when mode, median, and mean differ, the curve gets …
… will be mode
median is … between … and …
mean is at the … of the bell curve
skewed; highest point; midpoint; mean; mode; plateau point
even though mean is the central tendency, it represents the … bc …..
least amount of people; outliers inflate/decrease
negative skew: tail of bell curve goes toward … (…)
negative; left
positive skew: tail of bell curve goes toward … (…)
positive; right
wilhelm wundt’s contributions: … and … as important aspects of psych, godfather of psych, interested in …
observations; experiments; perception
central area for study of psych: …
germany
theorized that humans had no control over …: … impacted behavior, undermines notion of …
behavior; environment; free will
mammals are … creatures–seeks attention, … is significant–> idea that … defines … is one school of thought
bonding; attraction; attention; environment
freud particularly interested in .., because he viewed it as the mechanism by which we sustain the species
sex
we are driven by: …, …, …, …, …, etc. contributes to importance of … in society
water; heat; pleasure; food; sleep; money
humanism argued that … does exist: there are things that drive us towards particular goals: not necessarily for a …
free will; practical pupose
heat + overpopulation always leads to
aggression
cognitive view of aggression: interpreting neutral signals as ... social-cultural view: ...; ... biological view: ... psychodynamic: people raised in ... evolutionary: ... behind aggression
threats; urban societies; poverty; testosterone; aggressive homes; defense mechanism
people learn either through … or …
experience; hand-me-downs
humans adapt …
behaviorally
behavior can change when things become … –makes you want it more
inaccessible
phrenology is a … that was …, but it did indicate the truth of localization of function
pseudoscience; disproved
cell body holds
nucleus
myelin sheath insulates tail to prevent …
signal from escaping
terminal branches contains terminal … that hold …
buttons; neurotransmitters
region in between neurons is …
… is the actual connection between adjacent neuron
synaptic gap; synapse
… neuron is that which precedes the synapse, the one that comes after is …
pre-synaptic; post-synaptic
information comes through …
dendrites
neurotransmitters spill into …, … uses these to generate an electrical signal sent through the axon to the terminal branches
synaptic gap; post-synaptic neuron
SSRIs: medication; …
selective serotonin reputake inhibitors
SSRIs stop … of serotonin, such that the signal … and person is …
reuptake; continues; happy
GABA: neurotransmitter that makes you
tired
every medication influences the …
action potential
pain medication is …–> fills in dendrites so pain signal cannot continue
antagonist
fact that amygdala and hippocampus are close: things that are very emotional are
remembered well
face takes up a lot of cortical space because it experiences
all five senses
brocas area keeps speech
regulated
left visual field goes to … for both eyes; right visual field goes to … side for both eyes
right side; left side
