Final Exam Flashcards
7 multiple intelligence
Linguistic Verbal Bodily Kinesthetic Spacial Visual Interpersonal
Humanistic
Potential for human growth .
Psychoanalysis
Unconscious motives.
Behaviorism
Human & animal behavior can be explained in terms of conditioning
Structuralism
Interpretation of aspects , human cognition , behavior , culture.
Structure of conscious and mind.
Functionalism
Emphasize the function for behavior .
Phrenology
Study of the shape & size of the brain
William James
Functionalism
Sigmund Freud
Psychoanalysis
Wilhelm Wundt
Structuralism ( 1st lab in Germany 1879)
John B Watson
School of behaviorism
B.F Skinner
Psychologist , behaviorist ( radical behaviorism )
Joseph Gall
Phenology
Longitude cross sectional
Study same group of people
Cross sectional
Different groups of people being studied
Double blind study
Neither subject or individuals ruining the test know which subject is in the control group
Single blind study
Subject don’t know of they are in an experimental or control group
Control group
Group is separated from the test
Experimental group
Experimental procedures are performed
Dependent variable
Experiment predicts will be affected by manipulation or independent variable
Independent variable
Variable that an experiment manipulates
Correlation
Relationship between 2 things
Strongly related
Further from 0 the stronger
Coefficient of correlation
Strengthen or a relationship , linearly
Self fulfilling prophecy
Predication that directly/indirectly caused itself to become true
Monochronic
Done in order , on time
Polychronic
Relationship over time
Individualistic
Focus on themselves &families
Collectivist
View themselves as members of groups
Electra complex
Daughter desire for father
Oedipus
Sons desire for mother
Thalamus
Relays sensory messages to cerebral cortex
Pons
Sleeping, walking, dreaming
Medulla
Breathing, Heart Rate
Reticular activating system
arousal
cerebellum
regulates movement and balance
Hypothalamus Gland
involved in drives viral to survival
Pituitary Gland
Small endocrine gland which releases hormones
Amygdala
Arousal, regulation of emotion
Hippocampus
storage of new info into memory
Cerebrum
largest brain structure
central nervous system
spinal cord
peripheral nervous system
handles central nervous system input & output
Sensation
detection of physical energy emitted or reflected
Perception
brain organizes and interprets sensory
IQ test
identify slower learners
MA/CA X 100
hindsight
when you think events are more predictable than they really are
confirmation
tendency for people to favor information. (confirms what your saying only)
Forgetting
Decay, consolidation, replacement, cue dependent , interference, repression
3 box model of memory
sensory,long & short term memory
Sensory can last:
visual: half second
Auditory: 2 seconds
Long term can hold
unlimited
Short term memory can remember
at most 7 things
unconditioned stimulus
unconditionally, naturally, and automatically triggers a response
Conditioned Stimulus
after becoming associated with the unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a conditioned response.
Conditioned Response
learned response to the previously neutral stimulus
unconditioned Response
unlearned response that occurs naturally in response to the unconditioned stimulus
Watson & Rayner
wanted to give albert a phobia, then take it out
Ivan Pavlov
Dog salivation experiment
All or none law
strength of a nerve or fiber that responds
nature vs nurture
relative importance of an individual innate qualities
nature- genetics
nurture- environment
Telegraphic speech
speech during the 2 word stage
psychology
study of mental function of behavior, effect on the person by an organism, physical mental state
occipital lobes
contain visual cortex
parietal lobes
somatosensory cortex,pressure,pain,ouch
