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The SCIENTIFIC study of BEHAVIOR and MENTAL process
Scientific- systematic method
Mental- Thoughts, feelings, motives
Behavior- What can be directly observed. |
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| Critical thinking, curiosity, skepticism, and objectively. |
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Explanations of human behavior
-Adaptation
-Reproduction
-Natural Selection |
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| Notable Evolutionary Psychologist |
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Set of glands- Pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, pancreas, adrenal, ovaries, testes.
They regulate the body by secreting hormones into the blood stream. |
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| Brain Damage, Plasticity, and repair |
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Recovery from brain damage depends on:
-Age of the individual
-Extent of the damage |
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| Repairing the damaged brain |
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-Collateral sprouting
-Substitution of function
-Neurogenesis |
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| The process of receiving stimulus energies from the external environment |
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| The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information |
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| The minimum amount of energy an organism can detect 50% of the time |
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-Influence of information below the level of conscious awareness
-Vicary: EAT popcorn
-Strahan: Thirsty vs non thirsty
Outcome of the study- No difference |
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| Attention :-Focusing awareness: |
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| on a narrowed aspect of the environment |
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-Cocktail party effect (automatic selection)
-Shiftable
_novelty, size color, movement, emotions
-Inattentional blindness
-Sustained Attention
-Executive attention |
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Body's electrochemical communication circuity.
Field= Neuroscience
People= Neuroscientist |
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| Allows you to sing, dance, write, talk and think |
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| Allows you to hear sounds, sights, touch, taste and smell |
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| Adaptability-> Adapt and Adaptation |
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| Psychologist use these terms when referring to the ability to function in a changing world |
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| Denotes the brains special capacity for change. Thinking is a physical event because your thought is reflected in physical activity in the brain |
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Carry information to the brain and spinal cord
Afferent nerves ARRIVE at the brain and spinal cord |
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Carry information out of the brain and spinal cord
-While EFFEERENT EXIT the brain and spinal cord |
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| Individuals observable characteristics |
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| Genes enable cells to reproduce and manufacture the proteins that are necessary for maintaining life |
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| It will not display its trait in the presence of a dominant gene |
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Processes information about body sensations.
Front of the parietal lobes |
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| Rear of the frontal lobes, processes information about voluntary movement |
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True/False?
Both fraternal twins and identical twins share 100% of their genes |
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| Organisms are chosen for reproduction based on how much of a particular trait they display |
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| Involves the manipulation of genes using technology to determine their effect on behavior |
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| The unit of hereditary information, are short segments of chromosomes composed of DNA |
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| Complex molecule in the cells chromosomes that carries GENETIC information |
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| A ____ gene will exhibit its trait even in the presence of a recessive gene |
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| What would be diminished under stressful situations? |
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| Coping resources, sleep quality, decision making |
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| Impulses travel from the receiving fibers of the neuron called ____, through the cell body and the axon to the terminal buttons. Cell body and the axon to the terminal buttuons. |
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| The ____ nervous system of the peripheral nervous system is further divided into the ______ and _____. |
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| Autonomic, sympathetic, and parasympathetic divisions |
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| interconnected groups of the nerve cells that integrate sensory input and motor out put |
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| Comprises the brain and the spinal cord |
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| Peripheral nervous system |
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Somatic and autonomic
Somatic- Controls sensory and motor neurons
Autonomic- Processes such as breathing, heart rate and digestion. |
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| Peripheral nervous system |
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| is made up of the somatic and autonomic nervous system |
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What does the sympathetic nervous system feel?
What does the parasympathetic do? |
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| It feels "Sympathy" for you when youre stressed out, and prompts you to take action to reduce stressor and the parasympathetic helps you to "Rest and digest." |
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| Sympathetic nervous system |
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| Arouses the body to mobilize it for action and thus is involved in the experience of stress |
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| Parasympathetic nervous system |
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| Activation of the ____ nervous system, a division of the autonomic nervous system, calms the body after an emergency has ended. |
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| The ___ nervous system of the peripheral nervous system is further divided into the sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions |
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