Midterm #1 Flashcards
(86 cards)
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psychology is NOT
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- reading people’s mind
- common sense
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What are the four goals of Psychology ?
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- describe: what, where, when of mental process
- why: why do we get jealous
- predict: when do people discriminate
- limit: Harmful behavior
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6 steps of the scientific method?
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- observe ( we observe the phenomenon)
- if I notice that some kids are rough when they play, but others are more calm
- hypothesis
- I hypothesize….children are more aggressive because they play more violent video games
- there are often more than 1 hypothesis
- predict
- during the next school year, if I see which kids play video games, I’ll know who’s being more violent
- test
- I’ll measure how many games they play during the summer, I’ll ask the teachers to keep track of violent behaviour. then I can check if my data supports the hypothesis
- I can also have a sample group, one playing video games, the other read a book. Who will be more violent
- Modify
- if I made the kids read the book, they would be more aggressive
- It’s okay for your data to not support
- come up with another hypothesis
- Repeat
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types of psychologists
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- Research
- Applied
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How to spot pseudoscience?
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You know it’s pseudoscience
exaggerated claims blowing these minds
overreliance on anecdotes
no peer review is that a hoax
got the data going ghost
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What are the dangers of pseudoscience ?
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opportunity costs
Erodes trust
Harm
Inability to think scientifically as citizens
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Why we believe pseudoscience?
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sunk cost fee
conformation bias
Dunning Kruger effect
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What are opportunity costs?
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if you are feeling distressed, you go to pseudoscience treatment and to to a professional
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Eroded trust in science sounds like
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Why trust science? They give you grantees, but in science, there is uncertainty
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An example of Harm being caused due to pseudoscience
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girl that lost her life because 673 pound man sat on her
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What does it mean to have an Inability to think scientifically as citizens
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you will always take the guarantee, but there in real science there is a variable that could go wrong
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Why we believe pseudoscience?
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- sunk cost fee
- conformation bias
- Dunning Kruger effect
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What is sunk cost fee?
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you will fight for the left side, because you don’t want your belief to be wrong. Even if there is data to believe
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What is conformation bias?
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we attend info that confirms our beliefs, and avoid things that disapprove out beliefs
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What is the Dunning Kruger effect?
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- experts believe that the more they know the less they know (depends on context)
- but nauvicists is too confident inn their beliefs
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What are Scientific principles
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- rival hypothesis
- Correlation vs. causation
- falsifiability/ testability
- Replicability
- Extraordinary claims
- Parsimony (Occam’s Razor
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What is Parsimony (Occam’s Razor )
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- sometimes the simple answer is the best answer
- pseudoscceince likes to make things complicated
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Who developed the first Psychological theories?
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- Hippocrates developed one of the first psychological theories
- people philosophized about psychology
- psychology branch that developed from philosophy
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What are the four Humors of
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- sanguine (enthusiastic, active, social)
- blood
- Choleric (aggressive, excess of yellow bile
- Yellow bile
- Melancholic (depression)
- Black-bile
- Phlegmatic
- sympathetic behavior
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Who discovered Hypnosis
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Frans Anton Mesmer discovers hypnosis
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Who was the Father of Psychology
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Wilhelm Wundt, creates the first psychology laboratory
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Wilhelm wundut was a structuralist. Define structuralism
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structuralism : examining and identifying the basic structure of the human experience
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What are the limitations of Structuralism
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- Subjectivity
- Imageless thought
- Not enough to just describe our mental experiences
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Who was a functionalist
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William James
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How would a functionalist think about pain? a structuralist?
- A **structuralist** would want to know *the experience of pain*
- A **functionalist** would ask *why we feel pain?*
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Who was a female psychologist ?
Mary Whiton Calkins: first woman president of APA
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Was Sigmund Freud a psychologist?
no.
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what did Sigmund Freud believe about the unconscious
- Mind is like an Iceberg
- bulk of it is hidden underneath the surface
- and the little part is the part that makes us conscious
- What guides are emotions and behavior is the unconscious
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Who used dream analysis and why?
Sigmund Freud used dream analyses: window to our conscious
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Describe the Freudian Slip
- he was in the states and giving lectures at the university
- he heard two young women talking “ his two pubic lectures”
- public lecture was meant
- he assumed that she wanted to sleep to her
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Who invented Behaviorism?
- John Watson and Skinner
> if we can’t observe and measure, it’s not a science
- they wanted to observe; observable behavior
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Describe the cognitive revolution?
2 different responses, but same situation
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Cognitive psychology states....
- our mind as a computer
- takes information as input
- then processes through chips and circuits
- The software was our problem solving strategies
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Who invented Humanistic psychology?
Carl rogers, Abraham Maslow
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What does Humanistic psychology state ?
All humans beings has the innate desire to self actualize and ability to become the best version of themselves
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What are Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs
- physiological needs
- Safety needs
- Belongingness and love needs
- Esteem needs
- Self actualization: full potential
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What is a case study?
study with one person or a small group of individuals
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Pros and Cons of using case study
pros: Existence proofs, in-depth results
cons: May not generalize out of the real world
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What is naturalistic observation
When we go to park and see how many people picked up something.
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Pros and cons of naturalistic observation
pros...
- high external validity
- Observe in natural context
Cons
- Observe in natural context
- Our behavior changes while being observed
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What is Archival Research
They are records, you look at all the archives and researches that already exist
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Pros and cons of Archival Research
pros..
- Less invasive
- You can collect research without having to talk to anybody
cons...
Lack of quality control
You lack control of what data is available
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What are surveys?
- Questionnaires
- You must find a way to objectively measure
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What are the pros and cons of Surveys
pros...
- Ease of administration
- Self report measures
- Random selection (you want to be able to make generalizations)
cons....
- response error bias
- Malingering ( faking good or faking bad)
- Ambiguity (How often to you feel happy?) ( many times?) what number is many?)
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What is a correlational study?
- Relationship between two variables
- Are changes in one variable related to changes on another
- -1.0 perfect negative correlation
- +1.0 perfect positive correlation
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What is Correlation by design?
- people try to look for something to blame
- but if nothing happens, they won’t try to blame anything
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What is an Experimental Design ?
- one person told to take 20 dollars and spend on yourself
- one person told to do donate it
- the person who donated it was happier
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What is random assignment ?
- you can’t choose which group you want to be in
- help us eliminate bias
- Manipulation: spend it on yourself or others
- dependent variable: how money affects our happiness
- independent is under the experimental control
- dependent depends on the independent
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What is the Experimenter effect
- bias in our observations
- researchers don’t know who they are researching
- DR. Rosenthal’s Maze bright and Maze dull rats
- treated rats differently based on preconception
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Qausi - Experimental design
- Not random Assignment
- ethical concerns
- Existing group emebership
- Maritial status
- ethnicity
- childhood experience
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What are dendrites?
- antenna of the neuron
- receives chemical information from other neurons
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What is soma ?
- contains the nucleus, keeps the neuron alive
- factory of the neuron
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What is Axon?
- messenger - specialized for sending messages to other neurons
- Myelin sheath
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What does the Axon terminal do?
transforms electrical message to a chemical message - release of neurotransmitters
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What are Synaptic vesicles ?
tiny sacks, contains neurotransmitters that travel down length of Axon
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What is the Synapse ?
tiny fluid filled space between terminal button of one neuron and dendrite of another synaptic cleft
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what is resting potential ?
- uneven distribution of charges particles +/- charge
- there has to be a change of voltage that signals the
- when the neuron is resting is -60 millivolts
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What is Threshold of excitation?
- change in voltage needed to trigger an action potential (electric impulse)
- Excitatory postsynaptic potentials
- received enough messages, so sends it’s own
- inhibitory postsynaptic potentials
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What is Action potential ?
- universal language of neurons
- Abrupt waves of electrical discharge
- + ions rush in, - ions rush out
- All or none
- once it fires it fires, there is no sending along a weaker signal
- they work as an on off switch, not a dimmer
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What is Absolute refractory period ?
brief period when no further action potential can occur
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What is the Myelin sheath
- insulated layer made up protein and fatty substances
- nodes of Ranvier
- can make the signal to travel faster through the process called saltatory conduction
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What is Saltatory conduction ?
- allows action potential to “jump” between the Nodes of Ranvier
- to skip between the nodes
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How many speeds do neurons have?
1 speed
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What is Reuptake
- stops the messaging of NT’S
- A re-absorption of NT’S back into the axon terminals
- the neuron gets recycled and gets reused
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What is Glutamate for?
- the accelerator
- enhanced learning and memory
- schizophrenia
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What is GABA for?
- the break
- Learning memory, and sleep
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What is Acetylcholine for ?
- Arousal, selective attention, memory, and sleep
- memory loss in Alzheimer's
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What is Dopamine for?
- accelerator and the break
- reward system
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What is serotonin for?
well being and mood
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What is the frontal lobe responsible for?
- panning
- executive functions
- language (Broca’s area)
- Motor cortex
- if you damage this part of the brain, you can’t move
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What is the Parietal lobe responsible for ?
- somatosensory cortex
- touch and sensation
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What is the Occipital lobe responsible for?
visual cortex
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What is the temporal lobe responsible for?
- auditory cortex
- Wernicke’s area
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What is Broca's area responsible for ?
- frontal lobe (left hemisphere)
- language production (spoken and written)
- words make sense but difficult to produce
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What is Wernicke's area responsible for ?
- Temporal laterization (left hemisphere)
- language comprehension
- word salad
- they communicate very fast, but you have no idea what they are trying to say
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What is brain laterization?
- works contralaterally (opposite side)
- cognitive functions rely on one side more than the other
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What is the left hemisphere responsible for?
- Fine tuned language skills
- facial expression and motion
- reading writing
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What is the Right hemisphere responsible for?
- language skills
- visuospatial skills
- tone of voice
- simple speech
- face perception
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What is Phrenology
an incorrect map of the mind
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Who invented phernology?
Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828)
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Who was Dr. Wilder Penfield?
- Montreal procedure: stimulate certain areas of the brain while patient was awake
- used to locate areas responsible for triggering
- if they can locate where the sensation victims felt before the seizure, he could cut that part out and cure them
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How do we monitor our brains today?
- EEG Electroencephalograph
- CT scans (Computed tomography)
- functional Magnetic resonance imaging (FRMI)
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation
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What does EEG do?
- Measures electrical activity
- “Listen in on the brain”
- which areas of the brain are active
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What do CT scans (Computed tomography) do?
- structural image
- creates an image of what our brains look like
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What do functional Magnetic resonance imaging (FRMI) do ?
measures changes in blood and oxygen levels
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What is Transcranial magnetic stimulation ?
- magnetic fields to stimulate or dampen neuronal activity
- infer causation
- Montreal procedure without cutting open your skull
