chapter 1

Question 1

what is psychology?

Answer 1

scientific study of BEHAVIOR and the underlying cognitive and psycological studies

Question 2

what does psychology come from and what is their meaning?

Answer 2

psyche (soul), logos (word)

Question 3

who is known as the father of psychology?

Answer 3

wilhelm wnhdt, from leipizig, germany

Question 4

who brought psychology to america and what univeristy was it brought too>?

Answer 4

G. stanley Hall, John Hopkins

Question 5

what are the two major schools of thought?

Answer 5

structuralism, functionilism

Question 6

when did psychology get to UNA?

Answer 6

1886

Question 7

who believes the task of psychology is to analyze conciousness into its basic elements and figure out how it is related; peices of the mind &how people think

Answer 7

structuralism

Question 8

study of __ behavior, and conciousness

Answer 8

functionalism

Question 9

survival/reproductive advantages make it

Answer 9

natural selection

Question 10

where did structuralist gravitate more toward?

Answer 10

the labs and experiments

Question 11

where did functionalist gravitate toward?

Answer 11

how people adapt to demands of the world around them

Question 12

what is introspect?

Answer 12

self observation of behavior

Question 13

what is unconciousness?

Answer 13

contains thoughts, memories, and desires well above the concious that influence behavior

Question 14

what are the three parts of the conciousness?

Answer 14

1. id- part that makes us want to do stuff
2. ego-how we flesh out our being
3. superego-concious, morality principle

Question 15

what ares do we not have any middle ground?

Answer 15

anger, sex

Question 16

what is bahaviorism?

Answer 16

all behaviors result from interaction with our enviroment

Question 17

what is humanism?

Answer 17

rejection of psychoanalysis & behaviorism

Question 18

who believed people are good and only bad when circumstances stun our growth

Answer 18

carol rogers & abraham maslow

Question 19

what are the three components of science?

Answer 19

1. must be systematic and empiricism (systematic-plan, empiricism-observation)
2. publicly veriable knowledge, published research
3. solvable problems

Question 20

what kind of research is scientific?

Answer 20

1. naturalist observation(Cant determine cause & effect)
2. correlation studies (formal measurement of at least two variables )
3. experiments (manipulate one variable to see what effect it has on another)

Question 21

what is larrys 2nd law???

Answer 21

correlation doesnt imply causation!!!

Question 22

experiment that meets all the requirements of an experiment except random assignment

Answer 22

quisi experiment

Question 23

what is a confound?

Answer 23

extranious variable- things that mess up the experiment other than the independent variable

Question 24

what is subject expectation?

Answer 24

bias where the subject works harder to try to achieve success

Question 25

giving the tester the results the want

Answer 25

demand expectations

Question 26

what is single subject research?

Answer 26

do a experiment test a drug then try again

Question 27

what are three reasons to do single subject research?

Answer 27

1. inaivalibilty of large # of subjects 2. less harm to a bunch of people 3. lower research cost

Question 28

non-experiment, researchers write a unusual event and publish it and tell them how they treated it

Answer 28

case study

Question 29

what are the two types of statistics?

Answer 29

1. descriptive | 2. inferential stats

Question 30

what is descriptive stats?

Answer 30

describe data sets, math procedures to describe the data collected

Question 31

what is inferential stats?

Answer 31

math procedure for purpose of using sample data about a conclusion or a larger population

Question 32

what are the measures of variation?

Answer 32

range(highest-lowest) | standard deviation

Question 33

what are the three descriptive statistics?

Answer 33

!. central tendancy 2. variation 3. measures of relationship

Question 34

what is stistical signifgance?

Answer 34

likelyhood we found is not due to chance/limit chance factors

Question 35

how much does the brain weigh?

Answer 35

3 pounds

Question 36

what does the cerebrospinal fluid surround and what is its function?

Answer 36

(brain) provides cushion reservoir of nutrients provides waste removal

Question 37

what is the meninges?

Answer 37

very tough layer of that surrounding the brain

Question 38

what is larrys 3rd law??

Answer 38

everything psychological is simulatiously biological, every word thought everything takes place in brain

Question 39

what is the function of dendrites?

Answer 39

take info from the cell and pass it to the soma

Question 40

what is the somas function?

Answer 40

giant calculator, sums up info and decides what to do with it

Question 41

what is the function of the axon?

Answer 41

takes info away from neuron and to another cell

Question 42

what is the function of the terminal button

Answer 42

releases nero transmitters

Question 43

what is DSAT?

Answer 43

how neurons transfer

Question 44

what speeds up the neural transmitters

Answer 44

node of ranvier

Question 45

what are the three parts of synapse?

Answer 45

1. presynaptic membrane( boundary of terminal button) 2. postsynaptic membrane (dendrite boundary) 3. synaptic clept (actual boundary)

Question 46

neurons have a more ___ charge on the inside which results in the resting potential of ___ mvts?

Answer 46

negative, 70

Question 47

explain the process of reuptake.

Answer 47

when a neuron is inside the receptor is goes back to the synaptic cleft and the terminal button it reabsorbes the transmitter

Question 48

what are the two major parts of the nervous system?

Answer 48

1. central nervous | 2. peripheral nervous system

Question 49

explain the left side of the brain?

Answer 49

speech, DETAILED

Question 50

explain the right side

Answer 50

emotion, sees whole picture

Question 51

what tissue seperates the brain into right and left cerebral hemispheres

Answer 51

longitudinal tissue

Question 52

what does the frontal lobe control?

Answer 52

executive decisions, planning movement

Question 53

what does the parietal lobe control?

Answer 53

somatic decision (body sensation)

Question 54

what does the temporal lobe control?

Answer 54

hearing, left side

Question 55

post=

Answer 55

feel, pre= move

Question 56

what happens when more than one chromosome mutations happens?

Answer 56

chromosomal aberration

Question 57

what is concordance

Answer 57

oen twin has a trait while the other does too

Question 58

when twins and traits differ?

Answer 58

disconcordance

Question 59

momozygotic=

Answer 59

identical

Question 60

dizygotic =

Answer 60

nonidentical

Question 61

determs your personality of feeling of ones skull (frans Gall)

Answer 61

phenology