STUDYING EXAM 1 Flashcards
BEHAVIOR
anything you can see another person doing
What is Psychology?
The science of behavior and mental processes
Biopsychosocial approach !
Whenever we want to study somebody’s behavior or mental process there are different levels we can take .
BIOLOGICALLY - someone may have imbalences neurotransmitters like serotin
PYSHCOLOGICCALY - low self esteem , past trauma that con contribue to depressiveness
SOCIALLY - individuals enviornment, support system can contribute to depression
ALL THREE ASPECTS is what a psychratist will look at to determine treatment plan
Biological influences
Adaptive traits /Genetic / brain mechanisms /hormonal influences
Cognitive
Thoughts
Psychological influences
Learned fears / Emotional responses / Processing & perceptual interpretations
CAN DEVELOP FROM PAST EXPERENCIES
Social - cultural influences
Presence of others / Cultural, Societal, Family expectations / Peer Influences / Media
Careers in Psychology ;
-> Basic and applied research
-> Clinical psychologist ; PHD (Mainly can’t prescribe medication) - Gonna do talk therapy
-> Psychiatrist ; Goes to Medical school ( prescribe medication ) - Mainly look at biological influences
Psychologist ;
Offer counseling , analyze personalities, child raising advice, examine crime scenes, testify in court
Science :
a passion for exploring and understanding without being misleading or misled
; questions such as what if the after life cannot be explaining ( leap of faith)
- Psychology
s a science that seeks to answer such questions about us all , how and why we think, feel, and act as we do
! No matter how wild the idea is the smarter think ; does it work
SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDE
HUMILITY
Scientific attitude - being skeptical not cynical, open minded not gullible
Humility ( Important trait to have for a scientific attitude) - Being okay with having error but also open to new perspectives
!Nobodys opinion matter only the facts!
Scientific attitude ;
CUROSITY, SKEPTICISM, HUMILITY
CURIOSITY ; when put to the test can predictions be confirmed
SKEPTICISM; Don’t doubt everything, but be gullible as well.
HUMILITY; Must be open to new ideas “the rat is always right”
—> allows us to think harder and smarter
NEED CRITICAL THINKING FOR ; (common sense thinking is flawed)
HINDISIGHT BIAS
OVERCONFIDENCE
PERCIEVING WRONG
TENDENCY___
*Hingsight bias - After something happens someone claims they knew that was going to happen. ( They had no way of knowing)
*Overconfidence
*Perceiving order in random events
Tendency to believe other scientist & professionals
“Knowing what we don’t know enables generosity and intellectual humility”
allows you to question everything and revise your opinions based on the evidence
To be human is to be curious about ourselves and the world around us.
CRITICAL THINKING:
Examines assumptions and evaluates evidence ( critical thinkers ask more in dept questions) - They dont like people who make claims based off their gut
-Examine assumptions
-Appraises the sources
-Finding hidden biases
-Evaluating Evidence
-Assessing conclusions
!Science is rooted in observation!
What you cannot observe, a feeling , thought, sensation,
What you can observe - Behavior in different situations
COGNITIVE PHYSCHOLOGY :
Scientific exploration of how we perceive, process, and remember and how thinking and emotion interact in anxiety ,depresion , ect.
Positive Pyschology;
Belief that Happiness is a product of meaningful life
-Humans are behavior watches/ sometimes what seems like common sense is a countless casual observation
SCIENTIFIC METHOD:
self correcting process for evaluating ideas with observation and analysis
COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE:
studies the brain activity underlying mental activity.
HARMFUL TREATMENTS PRESENT DAY:
-Conversion Therapy
-Rebirthing therapy
THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD;
1-Theories →Hypotheses → Research and observations
STEP 1 SCIENTIFIC METHOD
THEORY:
an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events
Have a good theory to -> organize information , make predictions
STEP 2 SCIENTIFIC METHOD:
HYPOTHESIS-
A testable prediction, often implied by theory
→ Design a research study to test your hypothesis
STEP 3 SCIENTIFIC METHOD
OPERATIONAL DEFINITIONS =
a carefully worded statement of the exact procedures (operations) used in a research study
STEP 4 SCIENTIFIC METHOD
-Revise theory based on results of your study
If you are right you want others to replicate your findings
Descriptive Studies:
Just describe and say how many times you observe something
Case Studies ->
In depth observation of an individual
Advantages ; You get a lot of data/ good for rare cases
Limitations; results may not apply to others/ time consuming
Naturalistic observation ->
observe behaior in natural surroundings without control
Surveys
Advantages ; Easy / Cheap
Limitation: If your sample does not represent population can be misleading
Population =
Everyone you want to know about
Sample =
The specific people out of the population you actually study and wish to generalize the information to
Random sample =
Everyone has an equal chance of being in your STUDY or not
Correlational Studies:
Capture natural relationships between two variables
A statistical method to analyze data from studies or naturalistic observations
Correlation Coefficient ——>
represents how much things are associated with each other
-Positive- / - negative-
-zero-
Advantages;
Allows us to predict things
Experimental;
Explore cause and effect
Involve the manipulation of an independent variable and observing its effects on the dependent variable while holding all other things constant
Disadvantages;
can’t determine causation
Independent variable->
thing you can manipulate
Dependent variable ->
The outcome; the variable that may change in response to the independent variable
Experimental vs Control Group
-In clinical research the control group is often a placebo to rule out the placebo effect.
BIOLOGY OF BEHAVIOR
Everything psychological is stimutenaously biological”
NEURON COMMUNICATION :
Cell body- >
the cell’s life support center; contains the nucleus of the cell
Double blind =
The participants and people who give the drug do not know what treatment they are giving.
NEURON COMMUNICATION:
AXON
passes messages to other neurons, muscles or glands
Blind=
The participants don’t know that treatment they are getting
Neuron Communication :
DENDRITE
branching extensions that receive messages and conduct impulses toward the cell body
NEURON COMMUNICATION
Myelin sheath->
a fatty tissue that covers axons to help speed transmission of neural impulses
NEURON COMMUNICATION
Glial cells->
cells that support, nourish, and protect neurons; may also be involved in learning, thinking and memory