Psychology Flashcards
Bottom up (Data driven) processing
Parallel procressing - takes longer to process but less prone to mistakes.
Mneumonic- look from the bottom for details
ought self
who we should be
it is part of self esteem
learned helplessness
requires repeated inability to have any effect on a sitiuation over a long period of time + much more severe usually manifests as depression
self-efficacy
the degree to which we see ourselves as being capable of a given skill in a given situation.
behavioral perspective
deals with punishment and rewards
social cognitive perspective
holds that people’s behaviors and traits shape their environments- which in turn have an effect on their identity.
Neurotism
high emotional arousal in a stressful situation
catharsis
the process of releasing, anddy thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.
Psychodynamic therapy
the process of releasing it (catharsis) providing relief from strong/repressed emotions
Define the Nervous systems and its parts
Central Nervous system and Periperhal systems
Central NS: brain and spinal cord
Peripheral NS: Somatic and automatic
Somatic NS: Sensory(dorsal+ afferernt) + motor( ventral + efferent)
Automatic NS= sympathetic and parasympathic NS.
dorsal is in the back and ventral is in the front
SAME DAVE
Sensory - afferent
Motor - efferent
Dorsal - afferent aka sensory
Ventral - efferent = aka motor function
There is an evolutionary aspect to this.
dorsal in the back detects sensory.
ventral in the front detects motor.
if there is a tiger chasing you, and it attacks your backside, you can afford to lose sensation as opposed to motor function.
Define parasympathetic system
parasympathetic –> conserve energy –> rest+ digest
- pinpoint pupil ( opiod)
- stimulates flow of saliva
- constricts bronchi
- Slows HR
- stimulates perstalisis/ secretion
definite Sympathetic nervous system
- activated by stress ( fight/flight) - anxiety
- dilate pupil
- inhibit salivation
- relax bronchi
- increase HR
- stop perastlasis
- increase glucose production ( in the liver and kidney with gluconeogenesis)
- adrenaline - above kidney
- inhibit bladder contraction
Pons
part of the hindbrain
- handles the fundamental homeostasis
- relays in formation and regulates sleep
MNEUMONIC “ sleep by the pond”
Medulla oblongata
Hind brain
- handles the fundamental homeostasis things
What: regulates breathing, Heart Rate, and Blood pressure
cerebellum
Balance and Coordination
- alcohol messes with the cerebellum and its structure –> loss of balance
Super Colliculi
reflex of the midbrain
- receives visual and sensory input
Inferior Colliculi
Reflex of the midbrain
- receives auditory input
Hypothalamus ( 4Fs) What are they?
involvement in endocrine and homeostasis
- feeding
- flight
- fight
- fucking
Lateral hypothalamus
hunger center
MNEUMONIC - if you ablate/get rid of the lateral hypothalamus ( lack of hunger = LH)
Ventral Medial hypothalamus
Satiety center -> helps stop you eat when you are full
MNEUMONIC : if you ablate teh ventral medical hypothalamus = “ very much hungry”
THE MOUSE WILL GET FAT
limbic system and sttructures (3)
Emotion/memory
- Septal nuclei - brain’s pleasure center/ addition ( Mneumonic = sexy nipple)
- amydala - defensive/ anger fear
- hippocampus - formation of memory ( short –> long)
Anterior Pitutary
endocrine hormone - uses the hypophyseal portal system FLAT PEG FLAT = Tropic Hormones -> goes to another gland to stimulate hormone secretion PEG = direct hormones F= Follicle Stimulating Horomes L= Lutenizing Hormone A= Adrenocorticotropic hormone T= Thyroid stimulating hormone
P= Prolactin E= Endrophins G= Growth Hormone
Pineal Gland
secrets melatonin
Biological rhythms - directed by the retina