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  • Psych
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  • Scientific study of human behavior (actions you see) & mental processes (thoughts, emotions, impulses
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  • Structuralist
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o Believes in consciousness

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o William Wundt

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 Made up of different elements combined in different ways to produce perceptions
 Wanted to discover the form, or basic elements of mental experience
 Used introspection- internal perception, process by which someone examines their own conscious experience as objectively as possible
* Subjective way & couldn’t be used on children or animals

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  • Functionalism
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o Function of human condition or behavior, mental experiences or processes adaptive or functional for people
o Believed consciousness & behavior helped people & animals adjust to their environments

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  • Biological Approach
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o Physiological & biochemical explanation of behavior (genes, hormones, neurotransmitters)
o Studying behavior focus on understanding how physiological & biochemical processes produce psychological phenomena

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  • Behavioral Approach
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o Responding to environment, learned responses to predictable patterns of environmental stimuli
o Classical & operant conditioning

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  • Psychodynamic Approach
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o Unmet needs from childhood affects personality
o Thoughts, feelings, & behaviors stem from interaction of innate drives & society’s restrictions on expression of those drives, Psychoanalytic

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  • Cognitive Approach
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o Behavior results of feelings & thoughts, resulted as reaction against behaviorism
o Studies problem solving, attention, expectation, memory, & other thought processes

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  • Humanistic Approach
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o Motivated by desire to grow & develop, believe people aren’t machines whose behaviors determined by genetic code
o Emphasized potential for good innate to all humans

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  • Social- Cognitive Approach
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o Reciprocal determinism
 How people think, behave, & what their environment is like all interact to influence consistency of behavior

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  • Individual-Difference Approach
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o Measuring many ways in which people differ, reducing those ways down to manageable subset, using measurements of characteristics to predict actual behavior
o Traits- consistent pattern of behavior
o Measured by self-report questionnaires

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  • Experimental Approach
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o Cause & effect
o Independent variable- manipulated (cause)
o Dependent variable- measured (effect)
o Experimental group- exposed to cause
o Control group- not exposed to the cause (helps to set standard)

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o Neuron Types

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    1. Sensory (afferent neurons): take info from body tissues & sense organs, transmit to spinal cord & brain
    1. Motor (efferent): sends info in opposite direction
    1. Interneurons (association neurons): neurons communicate with other neurons
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Neurons Consist of

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  • Cell body:
    o Contains structure to help keep cell alive
  • Dendrites:
    o Short, bushy fibers that take info in from outside cell
  • Axons:
    o Relatively long fibers that pass info along to other nerve cells, to glands, or muscles
  • Myelin sheath:
    o Fatty tissue that the axon & accelerates transmission of info
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o Synapse

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 Junction where end of one neuron meets beginning of another
* Gap less than one millionth of an inch is the synaptic gap

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o Neurotransmitters

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 Chemical molecules contained in vesicles within axon terminal
 Released into synaptic cleft, bind to receptor sites on next neuron’s dendrites
 Excess is either broken down due to enzymatic degradation or absorbed through reuptake

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o Central Nervous System

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 Spinal cord
* Enables reflexive behavior, relays info to brain from elsewhere in body
 Brain
* Controls physiological & psychological functions

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o Peripheral nervous system

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 Includes sensory & motor neurons connecting the brain & spinal cord to rest of body

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Two Systems of Peripheral Nervous system

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  • Somatic nervous system- operate in external environments
    o Carries info from muscles, sense organs, & skin to central nervous system
    o Carries messages from central nervous system to skeletal muscles
  • Autonomic nervous system- regulates body’s internal environment by controlling functioning glands, organs, & some muscles
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o Brainstem

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 Oldest region of brain, begins where spinal cord enters skull, controls breathing & heartbeat

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o Thalamus

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 Sits on top of brain stem, receives info about senses, sends info to higher regions

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o Reticular Formation

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 Runs through brain stem & thalamus, controls arousal & sleep, filters stimuli, sends info to other parts of brain

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o Cerebellum

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 Rear base of brainstem, controls coordination of voluntary movements

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o Limbic System

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 Sits btw older parts & evolved cerebral cortex
 Contains several structures
* Hippocampus- processes memory
* Amygdala- influences fear & anger
* Hypothalamus- influences hunger, thirst, & sexual behavior

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o Cerebral cortex

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 Outer covering of brain, involves motor, cognitive, sensory processes
 Divided into two hemispheres- left & right

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o Psychophysics

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 Addresses topics of sensations
 Level of intensity we can detect stimuli, how sensitive we are to changes in stimulation & psychological factors influence ability to sense stimuli

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o Signal detection theory

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 Ability to notice stimulus will vary due to psychological factors
 Factors: motivation, past experience & expectations

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o Weber’s law

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 Threshold of noticeable difference increases proportion to intensity or magnitude of stimulus
* Harder to notice difference with more intense, powerful stimuli than weaker ones

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o Gestalt psychology

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 First to formulate rules where the brain pieces together meaningful experiences from fragments of sensations, minds fill in gaps of sensations

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o Critical period

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exposure appropriate for stimuli is required in order for the various perceptual skills to develop

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o General principle

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 Processing info about environment occurs in two ways:
* Bottom up- simple sensory receptors to more complex neural networks
* Top down- expectations, motives, contextual cues to raw sensory data

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o Sleep

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 Stages distinguished by type & appearance of brain waves
* Electrical currents on brain shown graphically on EEG
* Awake but relaxed state, brain produces alpha waves
o Slow & regular

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Stage 1 Sleep

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o Slower breathe, irregular erratic brain waves, hypnogogic sensation maybe
 Falling or floating, drowsiness
o Delta waves

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Stage 2 Sleep

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o About 20 minutes, deeper relaxation, sleep spindles
 Occasional bursts of rhythmic brainwaves
o K-complexes

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Stage 3 & 4 Sleep

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o Delta waves as large, slow waves
o Stronger & more consistent delta waves

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o Psychoactive drugs

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 Produces state of consciousness different from “normal” consciousness by mimicking or stimulating activity of neurotransmitters

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3 Types Psychoactive Drugs

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  • Depressants- slow down body functions & neurological activity
    o Alcohol, barbiturates, opiates
    o Slow down sympathetic nervous system
  • Stimulants
    o Increase neural activities & body functions
  • Hallucinogens
    o Distort perceptions & produce sensations that have no physical basis
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2 Types of Learning

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  • Associative learning
    o Involves a relationship btw stimuli or btw a response & stimulus
    o Classical conditioning- produces changes in responding by pairing two stimuli together

 Non-associative learning
* When repeated encounters with stimulus produces enduring change in behavior
* Habituation- repeated presentations of stimulus reduce intensity of response

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  • Heuristics
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way to solve problems with minimal effort, shortcuts

o Representative heuristic- comparing likelihood of one event happening by looking at similar one

o Availability heuristics- judging likelihood an event will happen in terms of how readily you can bring an instance to mind

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B.F Skinner

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  • developments terms of operant conditioning made by
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  • Noam Chomasky
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o Claimed children have language acquisition device
 Universal system steers us towards interpreting & using language in particular ways
o Others proposed neural complexity of our brains allow children to analyze experiences with language & determine which word orders are acceptable

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o Mnemonic strategies

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 Deliberate methods used for getting info into long-term

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o Alfred Binet

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 Developed first intelligence test

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o Charles Spearman

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 Labeled general intelligence that is single, unitary skill underlying people’s ability to solve problems

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o Motivation

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 Psychological process energizes & directs behavior
 Most important motives serves primarily social-psychological goals

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 Hypothalamus

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  • Part of brain monitoring hunger
    o Ventromedial hypothalamus- responsible for stopping hunger
    o Lateral hypothalamus- responsible for increasing hunger
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o Emotions

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 Deal with motives, goals, source of motivation
 Basic level
* Anger, sadness, joy, fear, love
* Wired into nervous system, blended emotions learned
 Emotions involve some part of physiological arousal, behavioral expression, conscious experience

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 Cannan-Bard Theory

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  • Perceiving a stimulus that relevance to one’s well being will generate arousal & subjective emotional experience
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 James-Lange Theory

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  • Perception of stimulus causes arousal first then causes emotions
    o Facial feedback hypothesis- activity of facial muscles tells us whether we’re happy or not
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 Two Factor Theory

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  • Quality of emotional experience depends on how arousal is labeled
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o Cross sectional studies

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 Comparing people of diff ages at same point in time
* Problem: age is confused with cohort

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o Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development

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 How children’s thinking changes with age

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o Erickson’s Theory of Psycho-social Development

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 Relies on idea that tension or disequilibrium is necessary for change
 Going through diff types of crisis depending on age

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o Abnormal Psychology

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 Deals with psychological disorders
 300 disorders in DSM-IV & DSM-V

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  • Somatoform disorders
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o Physical symptoms usually associated with sort of disease or physical disorder

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William Wundt

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-first psychologist,
set up the first
-psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany
-Structuralist

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Edward Titchner

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-Set up the first psychology lab in the US

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William James

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-Functionalist

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Sigmund Freud

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-Pschodynamicist

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Charles Spearman

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-Label general intelligence “g”

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Lev Vygotsky

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-developed a theory that children’s interaction with knowledgeable adults or older children helped them develop skills.
-Guided participation is also used in the instruction of adults and is an important teaching tool.

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Gordon Allport

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-was one of the earliest psychologists in America who undertook a rigorous and structured approach to studying personality.
-identified the idiographic and nomothetic views to personality study in 1937 with a goal of differentiating between common traits and those that are unique to individuals.

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Meyer Friedman

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-was a researcher who pioneered the development of two personality types, A and B, according to how well (or poorly) they respond to the multiple demands of everyday life.

-described Type A personalities as high achieving, multitaskers who are always very stressed and in a hurry.

-Type B personalities, on the other hand, are described as easy going, relaxed, and not always in a hurry.

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