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| the scientific study of behavior and mental processes |
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| philosophy and physical science |
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| 1st experimental psychologist |
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• An approach to psychology that saw experience as different than the sum of its elements
• Believed that breaking down the “whole” would result in the loss of important information |
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| The mind is broken down into the smallest elements of mental experience |
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| an approach to psychology that saw behavior as purposeful and contribution to survival |
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| features the study and careful measurement of observable behavior |
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the very private and internal mental processes such as:
o Information processing
o Thinking
o Reasoning
o Problem solving |
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| see people of inherently good |
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| Behaviorist who did classical conditioning |
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| Focused on the relationship between environmental cues and behavior - behaviorist |
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| who came up with law of effect? |
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| internal mental proses that behaviorists avoid |
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| cognition - thinking. Behaviorists focus on behavior, not thinking |
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| Cognitive approach to language learning |
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| we have innate mechanisms to learning |
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| in the 1st half of the 20th century |
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| leading humanists that focused on motivation and self actualization |
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| what did Carol Rodger start? |
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| Psychological perspective that focuses between mind, behavior and underlining biological proses |
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| Evolutionary Psychologists |
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| focuses on adaptive reasons |
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| Psychological perspective that focuses on social things |
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| studies changes in people over a life time |
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| seeks to explain, define, and treat abnormal behaviors. |
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| recognizes the variation in behavior between people |
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| ability to think clearly, rationally and independently |
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| facts and relationships between facts that explain a phenomenon |
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| How can science be explained today? |
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| systematic observation and experimentation |
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| Proposed explanation, normally in an "if, then" format |
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| Objectivity means that conclusions are based on facts, without influence from personal emotions or biases. |
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| 2 qualities of a hypothesis |
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| when you can imagine a situation in which the hypothesis is false |
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| subset of population being studied |
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| measure the direction and strength of the relationship between two variables |
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| test hypothesis and allows the experimenter to make conclusions about correlations |
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| has the effect on the dependent variable, the one the researcher manipulates |
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| not exposed to the independent clause |
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| is exposed to independent variable |
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| variable that is irrelevant and can alter conclusions |
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| The process of translating abstract independent and dependent variables into concrete forms |
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| statistical analysis on many experiments with the same topic |
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| combines the cross-sectional and longitudinal methods. Participants from a range of ages are observed for a limited period of time, usually about five years. |
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| receive messages from surrounding everything |
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| junction between sending neuron and receiving neuron (synapses gap) |
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| under supply of serotonin links with.... |
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| Chemical communication system is part of the.... |
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| Central nervous system is made up of... |
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| the brain and the spinal cord |
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| brain evolves to take over damaged parts |
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| connects brain hemispheres |
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| chemical messenger of the nervous system |
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| division of the autonomic system that prepares you to fight or run |
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| recycling/ re-absorbing of the neuro transmitters by sending neurons |
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| most extensive region of the brain, controls memory and learning |
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| chemical messengers of the endocrine system |
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| oldest part of the the brain |
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