Midterm 1 Flashcards
What percentage of your brain do you use?
100%!!
How much does the brain weigh
3lbs and 2% of body weight
How much caloric intake do our brains take
20%
What is encoding
Getting information into memory
Focused attention, better encoding, better memory
Should you change your answers?
Depends if you know the material
Levels of psychological analysis
Social culture influences, psychological, biological
What is social culture analysis
Social or behavioural level
Relating to others and personal relationships
What is psychological analysis
Mental or neurological level
Thoughts, feelings, emotions
What is biological analysis
Molecular or neurochemical level
Involves molecules and brain structure
5 challenges of psychology (hb, pi, Id, ie, c)
Human behaviour, psychological influences, individual differences, influence each other, culture
Why is human behaviour a challenge
Hard to predict
Why are psychological influences a challenge
Rarely independent
Why are individual differences a challenge
We our thinking, emotions, personalities, and behaviours are different
Why is our influence on each other a challenge
Or reciprocal determination
We don’t know what causes what
Why is culture a challenge
Culture shapes behaviour
