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"measure the atoms of the mind?" Analyzing conscious processes into their basic elements
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Started by William James
"The study of the mind as it functions in adapting to the environment"
Methods: introspection, surveys (quesitonairs) Mental tests |
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| Who formed the first formal psychology lab? |
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Max Wertheimer founded Gestalt as a revolt against structuralism "to understand the whole organism"
Method: studied perception |
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Started be John Watson
"discover how behaviors are learned and modified"
Methods: observation, scientific experimentation. |
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Sigmund Freud Developed psychoanalysis
"the unconscious and personality "
dynamics"
Methods: Dream analysis, free association |
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| Psychology Definition now |
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| The science of behavior and mental processes |
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| Definition of psychology prior to 1960 |
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| The science of observable behavior |
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| focuses on how the body and brain create emotions, memories and other shit |
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| Focus on how nature selects traits that promote the perpetuation of ones genes |
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| Focus on how much our genes and our environment influence our individual differences |
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| focus on how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts |
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| focus on how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information |
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| Focus on how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures |
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| a statistical measure of the extent to which two or more factors vary together |
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| Who started functionalism? |
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| reduce pain and improve mood |
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| influences movement,learning attention, and emotion |
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| affects mood, hunger, sleep, arousal |
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| controls alertness and arousal |
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| glads secrete "hormones" which influence interest in sex, food, and aggression. |
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| located on top of kidneys to release epinephrine |
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| hormone that that increases heart rate, blood pressure, and blood sugar and gives a burst of energy |
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| molecule that may be similar enough to a neurotransmitter to mimic its effect. |
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| Drugs that inhibit or block a neurotransmitters release from sending a neuron. |
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| made up of peripheral nervous system (pns) and the central nervous system (cns) |
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| peripheral nervous system |
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| made of the autonomic nervous system and somatic nervous system |
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| controls self regulated action of internal organs and glands |
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| voluntary movements of skeletal muscles |
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| send information from sensory organs to the brain and spinal cord ( we have millions) |
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| send information from central nervous system to the body's tissue. |
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| Positron emission tomography- depicts brain activity by showing each areas brain consumption of its chemical fuel |
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| controls heart rate and breathing. |
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| filters incoming stimuli to brain, arousal, wakefulness. |
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| brains sensory switchboard: routes neurons to higher brain regions |
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| in the limbic system causes fear and aggression |
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| in the left hemisphere, controls the body's right side |
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| in the left hemisphere receives input from bodys right side |
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| integrate information linking sensory inputs with stored memories. |
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| ability of one area of the brain to take over the function of an injured area |
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| made up of glands that secret hormones to the blood gradually |
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