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Definition of Psychology
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The scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Long past, but short history
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Goals of psychology
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Understand
Predict Control behavior |
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Code of Ethics
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High levels of competency, Integrity and responsibility.
Respect to peoples rights Protect Clients Welfare |
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Ways of gathering information
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Natural observation
Case Study Survey Experiments |
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Overt Behavior
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Behavior that is readily seen
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Covert Behavior
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Behavior that is not readily seen or easily observed. Thinking processes, deciding, etc.
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Hindsight Bias
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I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon. To believe, after the outcome, that one could have easily forseen it.
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Critical Thinking
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Thinking that doe not blindly accept arguments and conclusions. Rather, it explains assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence and assesses conclusions
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Origin of Modern Psychology
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Has long past with philosophy
Wilhelm Wundt made the first experimental psychology lab in Leipzig Germany in 1879 |
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Structuralism
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Hoped to put private experiences into mental building blocks
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Functionalism
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Interested in how the mind functions and enables us to adapt to our envionment
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Gesalt psychology
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Interested in the mind as a whole
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Behaviorism
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psychology should
1)Should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes Study of overt behavior and relationship between stimulus and stimuli |
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Neuroscience perspective
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How the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences
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Evolutionary Perspective
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How the natural selection of traits promotes the perpetuation of one's genes
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Behavior Genetics Perspective
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How much our genes and our environment influence our individual differences
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Psychodynamic Perspective
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How behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts
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Behavioral Perspective
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How we learn observable responses
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Cognitive Perspective
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How we encode, process, store, and retrieve information.
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Humanistic Perspective
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Emphasizes the growth potential of healthy people.
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Biological Psychology
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A branch of psychology concerned with the link between biology and behavior.
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Parts of a neuron
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Dendrite, Cell body, Mylon sheath, cell nucleus, and axon
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Synapse
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The space between the axon and the other neuron's dendrite or cell body.
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Neurotransmitters
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Chemical messengers that travel the synaptic gaps. They travel to bind to receptor neurons, influencing whether that neuron will generate a neural impulse
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Central Nervous System
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Brain and spinal chord
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Peripheral Nervous System
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Sensory and motor neurons that connect the central nervous system to the rest of the body.
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Somatic Nervous System
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Controls voluntary skeletal movements
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Autonomic Nervous System
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Controls self-regulated involuntary actions like heartbeat, breathing, digestion
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Sympathetic Nervous Systm
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Arouses body
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Parasympathetic Nervous System
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Calms the body
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Endocrine System
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The body's "Slow" chemical communication system. A set of hormones that secrete hormones into the bloodstream.
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Medulla
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Contains centers important for the reflex control of vital life functions
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The Pons
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Acts as a bridge between Medulla and other parts of the brain. Also influences sleep and arousal.
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Reticular Formation
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Acts as a selectively permeable membrane to stimuli into the brain.
Modifies Outgoing commands and controls reflexes like sneezing coughing and vomiting. |
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Thalamus
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Acts as relay station for stimuli on their way to the cortex
Damage to thalamus can make you deaf or blind, not not lose sense of smell |
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Cerebellum
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Regulates balance pretty much.
if injured it's almost impossible to walk. |
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The Limbic System
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Motivated behavior and emotion
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Hypothalamus
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below the thalamus.
Control center for emotion and basic motives |
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Amygdala
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raging anger. facilitates quick responses to dangerous stimuli before you even know it.
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Occipital lobe
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Visual Lobe
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