the scientific study of observable behavior without mental reference

Father John Watson, Ivan P(dogs), BF Skinner

Study of brain activity linked with mental activity. (how we perceive, process and remember info)

Jean Piaget and Social Cognitivism Study of how environment affects the thought process

Albert Bandura

The importance of the environment which influences our personal Growth. 

People are naturally good and can reach their full potential because we naturally seek good things

Carl Rogers Abraham Maslow

Urie Bronfenbrenner

looks at environment people grow up in. 

Chronosystem- everchanging (system that shows change)

William James

Charles Darwin

Edward Titchener (building blocks of us, examining yourself) 

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Konnrad Lorenz (Imprinting/ Evolutionary: believes strategy and goals are so important that natural selection built into us) 

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Occipital: Eyes, back of the head

Parietal: Top of the Head, spatial reasoning

Temporal lobe: auditory processing by ears

frontal lobe: speech and reasoning front of brain

Inner brain: [subcortical]

Thalmus: processes exept smell

Cerebellum: "tiny brain" balance/coordinate movement

Limbic system: regulation of body hormones

Amygdala: emotion center: anger and fear

Hypothalamus: govern hormones. Regulate body temps, eating habits, and sexual drives.

Hippocampus: helps more memories into brain storage

easy child, difficult child, slow to warm child,

differences tend to persist and are stable over time.

Selective attention: picking out something to attend to (cocktail party effect. still hear your name)

Inattentional Blindness: unaware of what not paying attention to.

Change Blindness: Failure to notice change in environment (Activity a bird in the the bush)

Repetition Blindness: inability to see the repitition of something repeated twice

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Attentional Blink: After paying attention to one thign, hard to shift to something new (shifting gears)

Hypnagocic sleep-experience hypnic jerk

Sleep Spindles-brief bursts of brain activity; if awoken, would know you were asleep

Slow-wave-sleep-really slow, marked by high amplitude waves

Very Deep Sleep-Occurs early in sleep, then goes back to between 2 & 3

REM Sleep-deepest sleep, body "paralyzed" internaly aroused, dreams rumored to occur 

try to get ppl to relax so true feelings come out

willing suspension of disbelief

issues in court cases because people are open to suggestion

will not fully act against their will

can help alleviate pain in general

Stroop effect/task: mind wants to read word before they say color

Sleep protects

helps us recuperate

helps us make memories

feeds creative thinking

plays a role in the growth process

Insomnia-persistent problem in falling or staying asleep

Narcolepsy-experience periodic, overwhelming sleepiness

Sleep apnea-intermittently stop breathing, resulting in repeated awakenings

Night terrors: High arousal and appearance of being terrified -more common in children

Everybody dreams

8 in 10 dreams marked by at least one negative emotion

Black Sabbath study-heavy metal music had an effect on the dreams

Freud: wish fulfillment

manifest vs latent

Info processing

maybe our dreams are helping us file away memories

help sift through days experiences

Physiological function-develop and preserve neural pathways, provides brain with periodic stimulation

Activation Synthesis: random brain activity; brain is trying to make sense of it

REM sleep triggers neural activity of memories and weaves it into stories

Cognitive Development dreams help our brains mature dreams reflect our knowledge and understanding of concepts

Tolerance

Withdrawal symptoms

physical dependence

psychological dependence

addiction: craving despite adverse affects

Depressants-substances that calm neural activity. Alcohol:lowers inhibitions, reduces self-awareness, disrupts memory, risky sex practices.

Barbituates

Opiates

Stimulatns:Meth, caffeince, nicotine: eliminating smoking would increase life expectancy more than any oither preventative measure; aimed at teens. relaxes muscles reduces sensitivity to pain but increases heart rate and blood pressure; withdrawal

Cocaine, Ecstasy,

Hallucinogens: distort and evoke sensory images in absence of sensory input-LSD, Marijuana

Adopted children more similar to biological parents than adoptive parents on traits of extraversion and agreeableness

Adoptive parents influence values, faith, politics

Child neglect, abuse and parental divorce are rare in adoptive homes

Adopted children and psychological disorders: overall, most adopted children do really well

Adopted children engage in pro-social behavior more than others. They seem more alltruistic (eager to help with no search of reward)

Chromosomes(is the coiled chain of DNA that contains the genes) have 46 in our body (23 from sperm 23 from egg) --->DNA (contains the genetic infor) ---> Genes bio chemical units of heredity make chromosomes.

Zygote (2 weeks), Embryo (8 weeks), Fetus (final stage) 3 STAGES OF PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT

Crystallized: accumulated knowledge and verbal skills (increase with age)

Fluid: Our ability to reason speedily and abstractly as when solving novel logic problems (decreases during late adulthood)

Sensorimotor

preoperatinoal

concrete operational

formal operations