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Study of the behavior of an individual organisim's and how environmental, psychological, mental, social, and cultural events.
And what variables influence the behavior |
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| Sociology studies the behavior of a group of people while psychology studies the individual |
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| Father of experimental psychology and the father of American psychology |
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Wilhelm Wundt
William James |
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what are the perspectives of psychology?
What is the oldest perspective of psychology? |
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- Structuralism
- Functionalism
- Evolutionary Psychology
- Gestalt
- Behaviorism
- Humanistic psychology
- positive psychology
- Bio-psycho-social-cultural perspective
Structuralism is the oldest perspective |
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| 3 parts of the psychodynamic theory |
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- Id- physical satisfaction and biological needs
- Super-ego- the need to meet societel demands
- Influence the role of the unconscious
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| A behavior is anything a dead person cannot do |
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- Biopsychology
- sensation and perception
- developmental psychology
- behavior analysis
- cognitive psychology
- psychology of intelligence
- abnormal psychology
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- 600 black sharecroppers and 213 were infected with syphilis
- 1/3 were not infected. Treated for "bad blood".
- patients were not treated to be able to see the progression of syphillis
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| statement that clearly explains what is being measured and how to measure it |
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| ability of researcher to minimize influence of variables |
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| refers to the degree to which findings from the study can be applied to a different context |
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- Lab studies
- naturalistic observation
- case studies
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- have no control over variables
- behavior observed and assessed in context with which what behavior occurs
- observation of a single person
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| a situation where two variable are not directly related, but statistically related |
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| study of animal behavior to better understand human behavior |
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| 3 main variables of experimental studies |
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- Independent variables- what is being manipulated
- dependent variables- what is being measured
- confounding variable- uncontrolled variable
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- dopamine- influences pleasure and emotion
- serotonin- affects mood, sleep, and apetite
- endorphins- natural morphine
- glutamate- for memory and learning
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| Where does the 'where' and 'what' stream go to from the occipital lobe |
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- 'where' stream goes to the parietal lobe
- 'what' stream goes to the temporal lobe
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| emotion processing. correlated with aggression. |
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- measures blood flow
- red= more activation
- blue= less activation
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| important to motivated behaviors such as feeding or fighting |
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Symphatic NS
Parasymphatic NS |
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- symphatic controls organ activity in response to threats
- parasymphatic is portion of automatic NS that controls normal organ activity
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- brain cell stones that process info with electrical signal
- 86 billion in brain
- 1 1mm-m neuron has connections with up to 10,000 nuerons
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- frontal lobe- exuctuive functioning such as planning and focusing
- occipital lobe- visual processing
- parietal lobe- processes visual attention and perception of locations
- temporal lobe- processes complex shapes such as faces
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