Psychology- Intro Flashcards
What’s the difference between between psychologists and psychiatrists
A psychologist can’t prescribe medication
What’s the goals of psychology?
To describe predict explain and control behavior
What’s the tools of psychology
Scientific methods to study behavior
What does IV and DV mean and what do they do??
Independent variable manipulated or varied in someway by experimenter
and dependent variable - the property that’s measured in research, is affected by the IV
What does population mean?
The group we wish to draw conclusions (information) from
What does random sample mean?
A sampling procedure where every member of pop has equal chance of being selected
Sample def
A smaller number of individuals from the pop to be participants in our research and represent the pop
What is psychology?
Psychology is the study of the mind- thoughts feelings and behaviors
What is trephination?
A surgical intervention where a hole is drilled, incised or scraped into the skull using simple surgical tools whilst a person is still awake
Why was trephination done??
Was done because a person had a blow to the head (hematoma possibly) got terrible headaches, they wanted to relieve pressure from skull
In order- how has our understanding of the brain changed over time?
Brain ablation Mind vs body Brain vs heart Phrenology ESB Neuroimaging
What’s brain vs heart?
The way we think is different from our heart and feelings
Brain control centre of mental processes
Heart reasoning and thinking
ESB
Deep brain stimulation sends electrical impulses to certain parts of the brain
Used in surgery to stop surged from killing healthy brain tissue
Neuroimaging
Structural imaging
Functional imaging
Used to find tumors
Doesn’t affect patient in negative way
Mind vs body?
Monism that they are both one system
Dualism - that mind and body are separate entities
Body is physical parts including brain
Mind is self awareness of ourselves and environment
