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| Looks at human developmental across a life span. Once focused on child development but now focuses on adikenscence, adulthood and old age. |
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| Focuses on interpersonal behavior. Topics include; attitude, change, prejudice, etc. |
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| Encompasses the traditional core of topics that psychology- sensation, perception, learning, conditioning, motivation, and emotion |
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| Examines the influence of genetic factors on the brain, nervous system, endoctroine, and bodily chemicals. |
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| Focuses on "higher" mental process such as memory, reasoning, information processing, language problem solving, decision making, and creativity. |
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| Interested in understanding an indiviudals consistency in behavior. |
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| Is concerned with the measurement of behavior and capaticies. |
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| Concerned with the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment, of individuals, with disorders. |
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| First woman with a PHD in Psyc. |
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| Famous for collective data on gender. |
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| Animals, "Free will is an illusion" |
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| Behaviorism, beleived in nuture. |
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| Everyone has an equal expirimental oppurtunity - no bias |
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| Everyone has the right to know the results, what they are testing for, etc. |
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| 2 variables that are related to eachother |
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| Independent and Dependent Variables |
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Independent - manipulated
Dependent - effected |
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| Wundt, focused on the are structured - germany |
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| James. How things function |
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| When nothing happens concerning neuron communication |
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| When someone is given a pill, told it something else and gets some sort of effect. |
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| Greek's version of psychology |
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the study of the mind.
Psyche-soul logos-study of |
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Frontal lobe- Judgement, rationality -front
optical lobe - eyes - middle top
temporal lobe- auditory- middle bottom
poriatial lobe- eyes - back |
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| Broca and Wernicke's Aphasiacs |
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Broca- not fluid, no sense of words.
Wernicke - word salad, thinks everyone else is crazy. |
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| Consists of brain and spinal cord. |
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| activates motor neurons controlling skeletal muscles. Contributes to attention, arousal,and memory. Ach receptors stimulated by nicotine |
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Contributes to control of voluntary movement, pleasurable emotions. Decrease=Parkinsons. Increase=Schizophrenia.
Cocaine and amphetamines eleveate activity of Da. |
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| Contributes to modualation of mood and arousal. cocaine and amphetamine increaseat NE Synapsis |
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| Involoved in regulation of sleep and wakefulness,eating aggression. abnormal levels may contribute to depression, OCD. Prozac and anti depressants affect serotonin |
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| Resemble opiate drugs in structure and effects. Contribute to pain relief and pleasurable emotions. |
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| Peripherial nervous system |
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| All nerves that lie outside the brain and spinal cord. |
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| Nerves that connect to voluntary skeletal muscles and to sensory receptors |
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| loosely connected network of structures located roughly along the border between the cerrabl cortec and deeper suncortical areas. |
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| Consists of glands that secret chemicals into the bloogstream that help control bodily functions. |
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