Psych ch 1-5
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- Clinical Psychologist
- Diagnosis and treatment of Psychological problems; private practice
- Diagnosis and treatment of Psychological problems; private practice
- Clinical Psychologist
- Applied psychologist
- extending psychological principles to practical problems in the world; schools, private industry
- extending psychological principles to practical problems in the world; schools, private industry
- Applied psychologist
- Research psychologists
- Conduct research to discover the basic principles of behavior and mind; academic settings, private industry
- Conduct research to discover the basic principles of behavior and mind; academic settings, private industry
- Research psychologists
- Aristotle argued the what theory about the mind
- tabula rasa
- Who proposed that humans are born with a certain mental 'structure" that determines how they perceive the world?
- Kant
- Humans are born with a certain fixed way of viewing the world
- Gestalt psychology
- Who is recognized as the father of modern psychology?
- Wundt
- 1.Identify elements and 2.discover how they combine to produce meaningful wholes
- structuralism
- What approach begs the question of the purpose of immediate conscious experience?
- functionalism
- Who developed the process of psychoanalysis?
- Sigmund Freud
- What is and who developed humanistic psychology?
- What was considered to be humans' unique capacity for good; Maslow
- sensory neuron
- initial contact w/ the environment
- interneuron
- convey info from one internal processing site to another
- motor neuron
- carry the messages and commands away from the central nervous system to the muscles and glands that produce responses
- glial cell
- removes waste, fills empty space, helps neurons to communicate efficiently
- myelin sheath
- protects the neuron and helps speed up transmission
- The central nervous system is composed of
- brain and spinal cord
- The four parts of the hindbrain are:
- reticular formation, pons, cerebellum, and medulla
- The hindbrain does what for the body?
- basic life support
- The cerebellum does what for the body?
- preparation, selection, and coordination of complex motor movements
- What is the function of midbrain structures?
- neural relay stations, and aiding coordinate reactions to sensory events
- superior and inferior colliculus do what?
- relay stations for visual and auditory info
- What does the thalamus do?
- main processing center for sensory input
- what does the hypothalamus do?
- regulation of eating, drinking, body temp, and sexual behavior
- what does the corpus callosum do?
- communicates between right and left brain hemispheres.
- What do the frontal lobes do?
- planning, decision making, memory, personality
- parietal lobe
- sensations of touch, temperature, and pain
- temporal lobes
- processing auditory info from left and right ears
- Wernicke's area
- language comprehension
- occipital lobes
- visual processing
- pituitary gland
- master gland
- teratogens
- environmental agents that potentially damage the developing child
- longitudinal design
- test the same person repeatedly over time
- cross-sectional design
- different people of different ages at the same time
- Piaget
- children think quite differently from adults; schemata
- schemata
- mental models of the world that we use to guide and interpret our experiences
- preoperational period
- children better understand absent objects, and can use one object to stand for another
- concrete operational period
- verbalize, visualize, and mentally manipulate objects
- formal operational period
- mastery of abstract thinking
- strange situation test
- determines the child's level of attachment