psychology chapter one test Flashcards
What is the biggest question in Psycholgoy?
Nature or Nurture
What is the significance of the activity we did in class?
Because you can’t predict something just by rubbing someone head
in general they are interest in the chemistry of the brain
Neuroscience
they are interest in things with motivation, incentives; thought processes
Cognitive
environment, stuctrional facts
Behavioral
social influences
Social/Cultures
behaviors that assisted in survival
Evolutionary
hidden impulses, child’s head trauma, sexual motivations
Psychodynamic
DNA from parents; direct biological influence on behavior
Genetic
What is the definition of Psychology?
Behavioral and mental process
conducted the first experiment
Wilhelm Wundt
He wrote the psychology notebook called “principle of psychology”
William James
Crossroads” discipline is a blend between
Hard and soft sciences
Sleep talking happens on what stage
Stage 2
Avoiding expertise within two of bedtime is a suggested way to combat insomnia
True
Which stage of sleep is sometimes called”paradox sleep”
Rem
How is a picture of a tiny Earth from 3.5 billion miles away significant to the study of Psychology
Because the earth is the same as psychology. We don’t know as much as we think that we know because there’s to much to know.
Psychology is a relatively young discipline
True