psychology Flashcards
Why do we sleep?
Learning, memory, safety, mood, immune system
How much sleep do teens need?
9 and a quarter hours
3 theories of dreams: Freud
Freud’s theory, sees dreams as wish fulfillment and reflections of unconscious desires
3 theories of dreams: Jung
Jung’s theory, focuses on balancing one’s personality and connecting to the collective unconscious
3 theories of dreams: Hall
Hall’s theory, views dreams as reflections of personal cognitive structures.
What is hypnosis used for?
Clinical therapy, pain management, behavioral change, stress reduction, performance enhancement, and memory recall.
Endocrine system?
Body’s messaging system, metabolism, growth, mood
Nervous system
Body’s control center, move, think, feel, breathe, heart beating
Frontal lobe
Voluntary movements, expressive language, high level functions
Parietal lobes
Receiving and processing information
Temporal lobe
Emotions
Occipital lobe
Visual processing
Cerebrum
Movement
Cerebellum
Language, attention
Brainstem
breathing, heart rate, sleep