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| The scientific study of behavior and mental processes |
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| concerned with links between biology and behavior |
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| studied physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span |
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| research to add to psychology's store of knowledge |
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| psychology's contribution to promoting health and preventing diseases |
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| Industrial/Organizational Psychology |
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| Study the relationship between people and their work environments |
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| scientific study of how we think about, influence,and relate to one another |
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| psychology that focuses on employee recruitment, selection, placement, training, appraisal, and development |
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| Organizational Psychology |
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| psychology that examines organizational influences on worker satisfaction and productivity and facilitates organizational change |
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| Studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders |
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| Study of behaviors judged to be atypical, maladaptive, unjustifiable, disturbing |
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| study illusion creating puzzles to understand how people and machines intetect |
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| study of hoe psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together effect the immune system and resulting health |
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| study of relationship between physical characteristics of stimuli, such as their intensity, and our psychological experience with them |
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| 4 key ideas to Psychology |
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1. Biology is a part of everything you do.
2. Your past is not always behind you.
3. Situations affect you more than you think.
4. Reality can be understood only from a biblical worldview |
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| controls self-regulated action of internal organs and glandunconsciousness nervous system |
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| sympathetic v. parasympathetic nervous system |
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| Adrenalin/ arousing v. calmingno Adrenalin |
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| three worldview questions |
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How did it all begin?
What went wrong?
How can it be fixed? |
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| Communication within and between nuerons |
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| William Wundt made the first psychology laboratory |
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| Why did the Exxon Valdez crash? |
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| Why don't doctors wash their hands? |
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| What do we hear, feel and see with? |
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| What does a polygraph measure? |
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- 1) Galvani Skin Response {more sweat more skin conduct electricity}
- 2)Blood pressure
- 3) Breathing |
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| Immediate recording of visual(icon) and auditory (echoic) memory/ momentary Memory |
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Working memory
• Active memory; central to storage and retrieval
• Last about 30 seconds
• Limited to the "magical" number of 5-7 bit of info |
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| Relatively permanent and unlimited storehouse |
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| five stages of sleep stage 1: lightest sleep stage 2: true sleep stage 3: deep sleep stage 4: stage sleep walking and talking takes place stage 5: Rem SLeep |
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- Light sleep
- Shortest at night, longest in the morning
- Dreaming
- Muscle paralysis
Visual memories strengthened |
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| the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular object |
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| Connection between emotion and memory |
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| misinformation effect and source amnesiaWhile tapping our memories, we filter or fill in missing pieces of information to make our recall more coherent |
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| Effect of Hypnosis on Memory |
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| the system for sensing the position and movement of individual body parts |
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| The sense of body movement and position including the sense of balance |
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| Did Freud Invent Hypnosise? |
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Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale
of Intelligence Ages 2 ½ to 7
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for
Children Ages 6-16
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale |
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1. Affects production of dopamine
2. GABA [inhibits] agonist [mimic]
3. Glutamate[excitatory] antagonists [blocks]
4. Results
• Impaired judgment
• Loss of muscle coordination |
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| Do people use 10% of there brain? |
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2. Many areas process specific info automatically
3. Highly organized and efficient (more intelligent more efficient)
Probably do have room for improvement |
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Modeling: Process of observing and imitating a specific behavior V
Vicarious Learning : through the results of others
Albert bandura
Bobo doll experiment Module 20 262-263
Adults modeling violence on tv
Measuring novel acts in children |
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| Made first psychology laboratory: measured a thought: 1879 |
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- some read about food shortages affecting 3 million Zambians
-some read about a starving 7-yr-old for Mali
-23% given to 3 million
-48% given to 1 |
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- Female gave survey to males in middle of solid bridge or sway bridge
- Gave phone number for results of survey
More calls from sway bridge |
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| Stanford Prison Experiment |
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□ Guards and prisoners randomly selected
□ Guards were forceful
□ Prisoners rebelled
□ Guards controlled
□ Ended morning of day 6 (early)
Situations matter- any person capable of any sin |
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Line experiment - Solomon Ash {if people jump off cliff would you jump}
3/4 conformed at least once- 75% of people |
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Stanley Milgram {if people push off cliff would you push to}
Conformity with consequences [see if same rate as line exp. but with more consequences]
Participant "shocked" leaner
15v-450v [foot in the door]
63% fully complies: press 450v twice |
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Association
Repetition
Repetition |
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| Summarizes observation and self reports |
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| statistical measure of relationship and prediction |
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| a research method in which an investigator manipulates one or more factors(independent variable) to observe the effect on some behavior or mental process(dependent variable) |
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- Small town of Italian immigrants(in PA)
- None under 65 with heart disease
- just because less stress, close family, caring naighbors no heart disease not because of diet, genes, exercise, or air |
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| Humanism : Hierarchy of needs :when all needs met be happy |
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| Behaviorism (no mental process or consciousness) outside influences |
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Behaviorism/ Elaborate Thorndike's law of effect
Developing behaviorism into explaining all human behavior as stimulus and response
Operant Chamber: Skinner box |
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| Experimented with dogs classical conditioning (learning can be measured objectively) -set the way for watson |
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| Psychosocial theory of development |
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| Fuctionalism: Principles of pychology, if sad act cheerful and will eventualy be cheerfull |
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• Tamping iron propelled through skull and frontal lobe of brain
• Became irate, belligerent, profane (before known as polite and organized man)
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• Provided evidence for localization of mental processes |
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