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| A study that tests causal hypotheses by measureing and manipulating variables |
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| fuctional magnetic resonance imaging |
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| IMplicit Attitude test (IAT) |
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| test taht indirectly assesses how people associate positive and negative words with certain groups of people |
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| mind & body are interrelated byt seperate, with each affecting each other |
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| first psych lab, starts measuring behavior |
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| Max wertheimer =perception is a subjective experience , cannot be broken up |
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| all behaviors can be understood as a result of learning |
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| the study of mind, brain and behavior |
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| mental activity, thoughts, feelings, perceptual experiences |
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| action of nerve cells, associated chem reactions- "mind is what the brain does" |
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| actiohs, from subtle to complex |
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| try to undersstand human behvior |
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| Priciples of psych are cumulative |
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| principles are estblished on the basis of incremental adcances in knowledge obtained through research |
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| bio revolution energizing research |
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| increased knowledge of neurochemistry, the human genome, and being able to watch the working brain |
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| cheical communicators in the brian |
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| basic genetic code or blueprint for the human body |
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| brian science-use to address some of the most central questions of human experience |
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| in psych sience, a teory that emphaszes the inherited, adaptive value of behavior and mental activity through the history of a species |
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| darwins theory that those who inherit characteristics that help them adapt to their particular environment have a selective advantage over those who do not |
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| in evolutionary theory, the physical characteristics skills, or ablilities that increase the chances of reproduction or survival and are therefore likely to be passed along to future generations. |
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| the beliefs, values, rules and customs that exist within a group of people who share a common language and environment and that are transmitted through learning from one generation to the next. |
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| rules of culture that specify how people should behave |
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| psych science crosses levels of analysis |
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| mind and behavior can be studied on many levels |
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| psych science crosses levels of analysis |
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| mind and behavior can be studied on many levels |
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| relating to more than one branch of knowledge |
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| -exam how culture and social contexts affect the ways people intereact and influence each othercultural & interpersonal |
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| norm, beliefs, values, symbols, ethnicity |
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| groups, relationships, persuasion, in fluence, workplace |
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| individual differences that concern how we percieve and know our worlds individual differences, perception and cognition, behavior |
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| personality, gender, deelopmental age groups, self-concept |
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| thinking, decision making, langjuage, memory, seeing, hearing |
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| observable actions, responses, physical movements |
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| -how the physical body contributes to mind and hehaviorbrain systems, neurochemical, genetic |
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| neuroanatomy, animal research, brain imaging |
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| neurotransmitters and hormones, animal studies, druc studies |
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| gene mechanisms, heritability, twin and adoption studies |
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| inability to recognize even familiar tunes |
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