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| Father of psychology, said that psychology was the science of mental processes |
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| John B. Watson (1920s - 1960s) |
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| Father of Behaviorism, said that psychology was the science of behavior |
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| Today's Definition of Psychology |
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| The science of behavior and mental process |
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| How the body and brain enables emotions |
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| How the natural selection of traits promotes the perpetuation of one's genes |
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| How much our genes and our environments influence our individual differences |
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| Psychodynamic Persepctive |
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| How behavior springs from unconsious drives and conflicts |
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| How we learn observable responses |
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| How we encode, process, store and retrieve information |
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| Social-cultural perspective |
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| How behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures |
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| Explore the links between brain and mind |
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| Developmental psychologist |
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| Study changing abilities from womb to tomb |
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| Study how we perceive, think, and solve problems |
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| Investigate our persistent traits |
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| Explores how we view and affect one another |
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| Studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders |
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| Helps people cope with acedemic, vocational, and marital challenges |
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| Studies and helps individuals in school and educational settings |
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| Industrial/Organizational psychologist |
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| Studies and advises on behavior in the workplace |
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| thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions |
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tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have forseen it
a.k.a the "i-knew-it-all-along" phenomenon |
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| We tend to think we know more than we do |
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| a statistical measure of the extent to which two factors vary and thus how well either factor predicts the other |
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| the perception of a relationship where none exists (raining and carwashing) |
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| Experimental Condition(s) |
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| the condition of an experiment that exposes subjects to the treatment, that is, to one version of the independent variable |
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the condition of an experiment that contrasts with the experimental treatment
Serves as a comparison for the evaluating the effect of the treatment |
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| branch of psychology concerned with the links between biology and behavior |
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A nerve cell
the basic building block of the nervous system |
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| the bushy, branching extensions of a neuron that receive messages and conduct impulses toward the cell body |
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| the extension of a neuron, ending in branching terminal fibers, through which messages are sent to other neurons or to muscles or glands |
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a layer of fatty cells segmentallyencasing the fibers of many neurons
enables greater transmission speed of neutral impulses |
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| A neural impulse. A brief electrical charge that travels down an axon and is generated by the movement of positively charged atoms in and out of channels in the axon's membrane |
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| Each neuron receives exitatory and inhibitory signals from many neurons. When the excitatory signals minus the inhibitory signals exceed a minmum intensity (threshold) the neuron fires an action potential |
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| a junction between the axon tip of the sending neuron and the dendrite or cell body of the receiving neuron. |
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| they are released from the sending neuron and travel across the synapse and bind to receptor sites on the receiving neuron, thereby influencing it to generate an action potential |
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