psy quiz1
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- mode mean median
- measures of central tendancies
- middle score
- median
- most frequently occuring score
- mode
- average
- mean
- range, standard deviation and normal curve
- measures of variance
- gap between lowest and highest scores
- range
- measure of how scores deviate from one another
- standard deviation
- bell-shaped curve of distribution
- normal curve
- measure of how much things relat
- correlation coeficent
- perspective focused on how body and brain create emotions, memories and sensory experiences
- neuroscience
- perspective focused on how nature selects traits that promote the perpetuation of one's genes
- evolutonary
- how much our genes and our enviroment effect our individual differences
- behavior-genetics
- perspective focused on how behavior springs from unconsience drives and conflicts
- psychodynamic
- perspective focused on how we learn observable responces
- behavioral
- focused on how we encode process and retrieve information
- cognitive
- focused on how behavior and thinking varies across situations and cultures
- social-cultural
- they explore links between brain and mind
- biological or neuroscience
- they explore our changing abilities from womb to tomb
- developemental psychologists
- experiment with how we think, percieve and solve problems
- cognitive psychologist
- study asses and treat troubled people
- clinical psychologist
- the explore how we view and affect one another
- social or cultural psychologist
- smart thinking which examines assumptions, evaluates evidence, and asseses conclusions
- critical thinking
- the science of behavior and mind
- psychology
- guy with a rod in his frontal lobe
- phineas gage
- system bordering brain system including thalamus hypothalamus amygdala
- limbic system
- 4 lobes of the brain
- frontal, parietal, ocipital, and temporal
- "master" gland
- petuitary
- agression and fear
- amygdala
- sensory relay station for all senses except smell
- thalamus
- organizes emotions pleaure center next to petuitary
- hypothalamus
- brain and spine
- cns
- nerves connecting cns to organs and muscels
- pns
- 3 kinds of neurons
- sensory motor and interneurons
- voluntary and reflex system
- somatic
- sympathetic and parasympathetic system
- autonomic
- fight or flight arousing
- sympathetic
- calming leading to homeostasis
- parasympathetic
- natural morphine
- endorphines