Intro Unit Flashcards
Area of Psychology: Psychoanalysis
A largely individualized examination of patients’ inner mind, often focusing on thoughts, feelings, emotions, fantasies, and dreams. It attempts to understand a person’s unconscious and subconscious mind.
Area of Psychology: Behavioural
A study of people’s mind and animals’ observable behaviour, often in relation to stimuli and responses. Behavioural psychologists often either ignore or discount the inner mind.
Area of Psychology: Cognitive
A blend of psychoanalysis and behavioural schools whereby psychologists attempt to understand the mind through scientific methods, often utilizing technology as a means to perceive the mind’s biological inner workings.
Culture
What ppl DO, what ppl MAKE, what ppl BELIEVE.
Sociology’s Main Tangents: Functional
This area suggests that societies are like the human body - a complex series of inter-related parts that allow the complete person to function properly.
Sociology’s Main Tangents: Conflict
This area suggests that conflict identifies and defines societies, often from a class basis. Conflict theory generally centres around goods distribution.
Sociology’s Main Tangents: Symbolic
This area suggests that societies are best analyzed from a smaller perspective, usually with a focus on symbolic representations.
Neuroplasticity
You’re never stuck at a mental fitness level, in other words, you can change how your brain thinks. It’s the brain’s ability to change.
Mental Flexibility
When your brain goes outside of the comfort zone and thinks creatively.
Concentration
Concentration is handled in the prefrontal cortex (PFC).
Distraction
Distraction is handled by the parietal lobe and it short circuits our focus.
Droodles
- Kids are a lot better than adults when it comes to droodles because they don’t see as many limitations like adults do
- Scott Barry Kauffman: droodles are great for judging divergent thinking
- Thinking like a kid helps us create many neural networks outside of the ones you typically use
Mnemonics
Music is scientifically proven to boost your memory.
Basic Principles of Behavioural Science Research
- Ethical treatment of human & animal participants
- Maintaining honesty in conducting & reporting scientific research
- Giving credit for ideas & effort
- Considering how knowledge gained through research should be used
- Subjects Must Be Protected
- Informed consent
- Need to keep animal subjects in good health
- Must abide by APA regulations
- Being Honest
Researchers should maintain a true account of the procedures they use and report their findings w/ integrity.
- No Plagerizing
Scientists should give credit where it’s due; ex. citing sources.
- Using Research for the Common Good
- Ethical research goes by the principle of Utilitarianism
- “religion of science”
- Whether the study is right or wrong + how many can benefit
- Common good is subjective
Explicit Cultural Knowledege
Knowledge about a culture that is easily explained.
Tacit Cultural Knowledge
Knowledge that we are unaware is cultural and assume everyone shares.
Eric Perspectives
Gives anthropologists a unique view that an insider couldn’t have.
Emic Perspectives
Gives anthropologists an insider’s view, hence, they believe that all people define the real world of objects, events, and creatures the same way as they do.
The Social Science Inquiry Model
- Identifying a Problem
- The Research Question
- Develop a Hypothesis
- Gather Data
- Analyzing the Data
- Drawing Conclusions
