Psych Exam 1 Flashcards
Psychology is an empirical science this means that psychology attempts to…
Remain evidence based
This theory contributed to psychology by hypothesizing about the unconscious mind and how childhood experiences contributed to mental health
Freudian psychology
What are the three basic attitudes that make modern science possible
Skepticism humility and curiosity
What are the three basic levels of psychological analysis
Sociological, psychological, biological
This early psychological school trained participants in introspection to discover the mind’s structure
Structuralism
True or false a cause can be determined from correlation
False
A hypothesis is
A testable prediction
Emma is working to test and retest the results of asch’s line study by holding multiple similar studies and comparing results to see if asch’s basic findings can be reproduced. This is known as…
Replication
Dr. Bandits is interested in studying televisions influence on aggression. To study this, he designs an experiment where one group of children are shown a violent cartoon and another group is not. Then the children are placed in a room with a punching bag. Dr bandits records that the children who were shown the bad clip punched the punching bag more what was the independent variable
Exposure to a violent cartoon
What are APA guidelines researchers must follow when working with human experiments
Obtain informed consent
Keep info about participants confidential
Fully debrief people
Protect participants from great than usual harm and discomfort
Dr Paul ekman found major differences in facial expression across cultures with significant in group emotional accuracy true or false
False
The historical emotional theory states that arousal and emotion occur at the same time
Cannon bard theory
Elon musk is depressed cause Jeff basso making more money than him. Comparing himself seems to be the source of his depression… this is know as
Relative deprivation
The behavioral medicine subtitle of psychology
Health psychology
Martin seligman was interested in studying human flourishing and promote the strengths and virtues of his clients. AKA
Positive psychology
This is the fatty tissue encasing the axons
Myelin sheath
Plasticity refers to the brains ability to
Change
Leonard is unable to form new memories due to a terrible accident to this region of the brain. Alzheimer’s,Cronin traumatic encephalopathy and anterograde amnesia also involve this region that is involved in explicit memory formation
The hippocampus
This division of the nervous system consists of the brain and spinal cord
Central nervous system
Homer startled by alarm but remembers there’s a drill and eats donut. What part of homers nervous system down regulates his physiology after this startling arousal?
The parasympathetic nervous system
Dendrites
Receive messages
Axon
Extension that passes messages
Synapse
Junction between the axon and the dendrite
Central nervous system
The brain and spinal cord
Peripheral nervous system
The sensory and motor neurons
The endocrine system
set of glands that secret hormones into the bloodstream
Medulla
Controls heartbeat and breathing
Thalamus
Acts as the brains sensory control center
Cerebellum
Coordinates movement and balance
The limbic system
Amygdala hypothalamus and hippocampus
The amygdala
Fear and anger
The hypothalamus
Eating and drinking body temp and sex
The hippocampus
Explicit memory
Frontal lobe
Higher level executive function
Corpus callosum
Connects and Carrie’s messages between hemispheres
James Lange theory
Emotions result from attention to bodily activity
Schachter singer two factor theory
Physical reactions and our thoughts together create emotion
Zajonc ledoux and Lazarus
Emotion follows to neural pathways high and low
embodied responses happen instantly without conscious appraisal
cognitive appraisal defines emotions
Sympathetic nervous system
Arouses and mobilizes body to action
Parasympathetic
Calms down regulations body
Is it easy to determine emotion by tracking heart rate breathing and perspiration?
No, facial expressions and brain activity are much better indicators
Behavior feedback effect
Behavior influences ours and others thoughts feelings and actions
Adaptive level phenomenon
The tendency to adjust to a new normal and require another boost to feel similar levels of emotions
3 phases of general adaptive syndrome (gas)
Alarm
Resistance
Exhaustion
Cope
Emotional cognitive or behavioral methods of stress reduction
Self control
Impulse control and delayed satisfaction
Hindsight bias
The tendency to believe after learning an outcome that we would’ve foreseen it
Theory
An explanation that organizes observations and predicts
Operational definitions
A carefully worded statement of the exact procedures used in a research study
Meta analysis
Analysis of multiple studies to reach an overall conclusion
Naturalistic observations
Descriptive natural situations, not trying to manipulate
Mean
Average of a distribution
Median
The middle score in a distribution
Mode
The most frequently occurring score
Range
The difference between the highest and lowest scores
Standard deviation
A measure of how much scores can vary
Normal distribution
A symmetrical bell shaped curve
Statistical significance
P-value < or = .05
Early psychological schools
Functionalism: considers the function of mental and behavioral processes on adaptation survival and flourishing or reproduction
Behaviorism (bf skinner)
Concerned only with behavior and refuses to reference mental processes
Humanistic psychology
Emphasized human growth potential
Psychology
The science of behavior and mental processes
