Vocabulary Flashcards
Behaviorism
The study of behavior
Cognitive Psychology
The study of mental processes
Consciousness
Awareness of ourselves and our environment
Empiricism
The belief that knowledge comes from experience
Eugenics
The practice of selective breeding to promote desired traits
Flashbulb memory
A highly detailed and vivid memory of an emotionally significant event
Functionalism
A school of American psychology that focuses on what the brain does
Gestalt psychology
An attempt to study the unity of experience
Individual Differences
Ways in which people differ in terms of behavior , emotion, cognition and development
Introspection
A method of focusing on internal processes
Neural impulses
An electro-chemical signal that enables neurons to communicate
Practitioner-Scholar Model
Model of training professional psychologist that emphasizes clinical practice
Psychophysics
Study of relationships between physical stimuli and the perception of those stimuli
Realism
a tendency to face facts and be practical rather than imaginative or visionary
Scientist-Practitioner Model
Model of training professional psychologist that emphasizes research and clinical skills
Structuralism
Psychology sought to describe the elements of conscious experience or the doctrine that structure is more important than function.
Tip of the Tongue Phenomenon
The inability to say a word from memory even though it is on the tip of the mouth
Materialism
belief that the world is made of material, and that there are no other types of entity (things)
Dualism
the idea or theory that something (an object, an idea, or the whole world) is split into two parts
What were Descartes two arguments against Materialism
Argument one is that the creativity and spontaneity of human actions proves we are more than material beings. Argument two was the famous saying “I think therefore I am”
What are the 4 parts of a neuron system
Dendrites, Cell body, Axon and Myelin Sheath
What is the Dendrites role
Receive signals from other neurons
What is the role of the Cell body
Sums up all the pulses to a certain amount for a neuron firing
What is the role of a Axon
Where the neuron firing takes place
What is the Myelin Sheath
Fatty tissue that insulates the axon
What are the 3 types of neurons
Sensory, Motor and Interneurons
What does a sensory neuron do
Takes in information from external world
What does the motor neurons do
Move information from the brain to the motor control
What does the interneurons do
Connects different neurons without making contact to the external world
What is the Synapse
The gap between neurons
