EXAM 1 Flashcards
What was the goal of behaviorists
the prediction and control of behavior
Placebo Effect
thinking you are getting a treatment can relieve symptoms
whats the difference between a theory and a hypothesis?
Theory- an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behavior or events
Hypothesis- a testable prediction, often implied by a theory
Parietal cortex (lobe)
Perceives space and direction/ sensory information
Motor cortex (left side of central fissure)
Planning, control, and execution of movements
What was the first revolution of behaviorism against?
revolution against introspection
Correlational research
to detect naturally occurring relationships; to asses how well one variable predicts another.
done by collecting data on two or more variable with no manipulation
Prediction
way of exploring the world and testing a theory
Explicit memory
- *Facts and experiences we can know and declare
* A and S focused on this
Independent Variable
can be varied independently of other factors
Epistemology
study of knowledge
Endocrine system
the body’s “slow” chemical communication system; a set of glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream
3 steps or stages of Memory
- Encoding- Getting info into brain
- Storing-Retaining the info
- Retrieving- getting info back out
Serial position effect
Our tendency to remember the first and last things on a list
Relearning
Learning something more quickly the second time
Brains Plasticity
the brains ability to change, especially during childhood, by reorganizing after damage or by building new pathways based on experience
Retrograde amnesia
Cannot recall old memories
Why is a theory a good thing?
- Brings a lot of previously unrelated things together under one covering explanation.
- Makes Predictions
- helps us discover entirely new things
- can be proved wrong - Helps us understand why
What are two neurotransmitters?
**Dopamine: influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion
**Serotonin: influences mood, hunger, sleep, and arousal
Context dependent memory
**We remember things based on the context of the memory
Learning a word underwater would best be remembered underwater
Forgot to sharpen pencil when leaving room because no que like desk or book
Primary effect
We repeat the first thing the most times so we remember it
What did Empiricism argue about scholasticism?
-argued that scholasticism was wrong because there was no collection of data
Behaviorism
BEHAVIORISM Involved the study of observable behavior Goals: Predict and Control S-R psychology Vary stimuli and watch what happens Example: ** Pavlov -studied dogs -conditioned response where he would observe how learning happened. (Bell and Food/ while measuring saliva)
- *BF Skinner
- studied pigeons
Recency effect
Most recent thing said so it is still in our STM