psych exam 1 spring 2013
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- Wilhelm Wundt
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Campaigned to make psychology an independent discipline
Established the first laboratory for the study of psychology in 1879 - B.F. Skinner
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1904-1990
Environmental factors determine behavior
responses that lead to positive outcomes are repeated - Freud
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founded psychoanalytic school of thought
emphasis on unconscious processes influencing behavior - Maslow
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1908-1970
Humanism - Martin Seligman
- positive psychology
- Structuralism
- Analyze consciousness into basic elements
- Functionalism
- investigate the function of consciousness
- Positive Psychology
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found the positive aspects of human existence.
Cup half full not empty - Ethnocentrism
- viewing ones own group as superior and as the standard for judging
- Normal Curve
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Standardized tests establish a normal distribution
of scores on a tested population in a bell-shaped
pattern - test-retest reliability
- using the same test on two occasions to measure consistancy
- content validity
- refers to the extent the test measures a particular behavior or trait
- predictive validity
- refers to the function of the test in predicting a particular behavior or trait
- flynn effect
- over the past 60 years intelligence scores have risen by an average 27 points
- gardner's multiple intelligences
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linguistic
logical-mathematical
musical
spatial
bodily
intrapersonal (self)
intrapersonal (others)
naturalist
- brain size and intelligence
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.40 correlation
brain decreases with age and so does IQ - Stability
- IQ scores become stable after 7 years
- racial differences
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white - 100
black-85
Hispanic inbetween - Flight or fight response
- initiated by the adrenal glands
- serotonin
- mood regulation
- norepinephrine
- secreted by the medulla during stressful and emotional situations
- dopamine
- involved with diseases such as schizophrenia and parkinsons
- pituitary gland
- development of our growth
- thyroid
- metabloism
- parathyroid
- calcium in the blood
- adrenal glands
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consists of the medulla and cortex
medulla secrets hormones during stressful times
cortex regulates salt and carbs - PET
- Brain activity
- MRI
- Brain tissue
- EEG
- Brain waves
- plasticity
- the brains ability to modify its self after injury
- medulla
- secretes epinephrine and norepinephrine during stressful times
- hypothalamus
- maintenance activites like eating, drinking, body temp, and emotions
- amyglada
- fear and anger
- neuron
- information system
- limbic system
- hippocampus amygdala and hypothalamus
- dendrites
- receive messages from other neurons
- neurotransmitters
- messages sent to the dendrites for a neuron
- synapse
- synaptic gap or cleft
- broca's area
- controls speech
- wernicke's area
- listening
- sympathetic NS
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Arouses
Fight or flight - somatic
- voluntary movements of skeletal muscles
- central NS
- brain and spinal cord
- peripheral NS
- contains the autonomic and somatic NS