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Introducing Psychological Science Flashcards

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What is biopsychosocial human behaviour?

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Bio: genes brain and anatomy
Psychological: human behaviour, thought and experience
Social: society, our surroundings and settings.

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Building scientific literacy: 4 things to know

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Critical thinking, application, knowledge gathering and explanation

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empiricism

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Knowledge come from experience

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Determinism

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All events from lawful cause ( karma)

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Sanguine and blood

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Impulsive, pleasure seeking

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Choleric and yellow bile

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Energetic and aggressive, ambitious

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Melancholic and black bile

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Introverted and perfectionist

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Phlegm and phlegmatic

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Relaxed, quiet and humor

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Frontal lobe

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Language, planning and thoughts

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Parietal lobe

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Sensory and bodily awareness

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Temporal lobe

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Hearing and recognition

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Occipital lobe

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Visual

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Midbrain

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Visual and hearing attention

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Pons

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Sleep, breathing, heart rate

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Medulla

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Heart rate, breathing, sleep

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Spinal cord

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Send sensory information from body to brain, coordinate reflexes

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Cerebellum

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Coordination, timing, movements

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Neurotransmitter

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Chemicals that transmit information to allow neurons to communicate

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Agonist

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Drugs acts as a neurotransmitter (helps your neurons to communicate and signal each other)

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Antagonist

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Blocks or prevents neurotransmitter to continue on

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Plato

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Knowledge came from what you’re born with

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Plato

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Knowledge came from what you’re born with

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Aristotle

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Knowledge Can from experience

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Descartes

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Mind and body is different

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Hobbes

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Mind and body are similar

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France gall

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Phrenology: he thought that the bumps on our head is what gives us pur personalities

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Charles Darwin

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Natural selection: we adapt functions of behaviour

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Charles Darwin

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Natural selection: we adapt functions of behaviour

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Fechner

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Similarities between the mental and real world

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Sigmund Freud

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Psychoanalysis: therapy

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Galton

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Nature vs nurture: eminence and eugenics

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Wundt

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First lab and introspection: observing mental + emotional processes

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B watson

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Observe the human behaviour

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Pavlov

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Classical conditioning: like training a dog with a whistle in food

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Lesioning

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A way to purposely damage are in brain

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Computerized tomography (CT)

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Be able to see pictures of brain

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

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To measure white matter in the brain

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Structural neuroimaging

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Scans the brain to make images of different structures

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Positron emission tomography

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Helps look for what is most active in the brain. Radioactive isotopes

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Magnetoencephalography

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Measures magnetic field by electrical activity of nerve cells

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Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

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Finds out how blood flow and brain activity change while patient is doing multiple tasks

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Monozygotic twins

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From one egg = genetically identical

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Dizygotic twins

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From 2 different eggs = diff sperms in same womb

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Crisper - cas 9

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Help genetic material to be removed

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Epigenetics

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Change in gene expression from experience

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Sources of bias and psychological research

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Hindsight, overconfidence, tendency to find patterns in random events

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5 reasons of poor research

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FALSIFIABLE - constantly false info
ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE - not true or reliable (weight loss commercial)
BIASED SELECTION OF DATA - weak social media posts
APPEAL TO AUTHORITY - ppl who say they’re doctors but not reliable
APPEAL TO COMMON SENSE - no evidence

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