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Psychology Flashcards

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What is Psychological science?

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The study through research of mind, brain and behavior

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What is critical thinking?

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Is systematically questioning and evaluating info using well supported evidence

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Psychology is originated from?

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In philosphy

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Who is Sigmund Fred?

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  • Father of Psychoanalytic theory

- Much of human behavior is determined by mental processes operating below the level of awareness

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What is Unconscious?

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The place where mental processes operate below the level of conscious awareness

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What is Behaviorism?

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A psychological approach that emphasizes the role of environmental forces in producing observable behavior

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Who developed behaviorism?

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John B. Watson

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what is psychoanalysis?

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A method developed by Sigmund Freud that attempts to bring the contents of the unconscious into conscious awareness so that conflicts can be revealed

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What is Gestalt theory?

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A theory based on the idea that the whole of personal experience is different from the sum of its consistent elements

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What is Humanistic Psychology?

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An approach that focuses on the basic goodness of people and how they happier and more fulfilled

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What is cognitivism?

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The study of mental functions as intelligence, thinking, language, and decision making.

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What is a variable?

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Is something in the world that can vary and a researcher can change

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Independent vs dependent variable?

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I - the variable that gets manipulated in a research study (the one I change)

D- the variable that gets measured in a research study

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What is a descriptive research?

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A research methods that involve observing behavior to describe that behavior objectively & systematically

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What is a case study?

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A descriptive research method that involves the intensive examination of an unusual person or organization

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What is Participant observation?

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A type of descriptive study in which the researcher is involved in the situation

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What is naturalistic observation?

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A type of descriptive study in which the researcher is a passive observer, separated from the situation & making no attempt to change or alter ongoing behavior

18
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what is Correlational Studies

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A research method that describes & predicts how variables are naturally related in the real world , without any attempt by the researcher to alter them to assign causation between them

19
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What is the 2 cerebral hemispheres? *ON TEST 100%

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left and right
right controls left
left controls right

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What are the four lobes? *ON TEST 100%

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  • occipital
  • parietal
  • frontal
  • temporal
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What is occipital, parietal, frontal, and temporal

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Occipital - eyes sight - eyes-back of head
Parietal - top of head - sense of touch
Frontal - Skills, thinking, personality, decision-amaking and movements
temporal - hearing & language -temples location, uniform face area

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What are the five types of Neuro?

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Acetylcholine (Ach) 
Norepinephrine
Serotonin
Dopamine
GABA
Glutamate
23
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what is acetylcholine?

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It is responsible for motor control at the junction between nerves muscles memory, sleeping and dreaming AKA Alzheimer

24
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What is norepinephrine

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A monoamine neurotransmitter involved in states of arousal & attention

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What is serotonin?

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For a wide range of psychological activity including emotional states, impulse control & dreaming AKA Depression& anxiety

26
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Dopamine

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In motivation, reward & motor control over voluntary movement aka happiness!

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GABA

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The primary inhibary transinetter in the nervous system! Aka anxiety

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Glutamate

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The primary excitatory transmitter in nervous system aka autism & attlwzimers

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Neuron

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The basis units of the nervous system; cells that receive, integrate& transmití info the nervous system

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Axon

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A long, arrow, outgrown of a neroun by which the info is conducted from cell body to the

31
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What it is dopamine

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It involved in motiviation reward & motor control over voluntary moevement AKA Happiness

32
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what is GABA

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Gamma-aminobutric acid : the primary inhibitory transmitter in the nervous system AKA anxiety

33
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Glutamte

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the primary excitatory transmitter in the nervous system AKA autism and alt chimers

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Neuron

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the baic units of the nervous system cells that recieve & interagrate and transmit info in the nervous system

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axon

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a long

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