Psych Exam 1 Flashcards
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Psychology is an empirical science this means that psychology attempts to…
Remain evidence based
This theory contributed to psychology by hypothesizing about the unconscious mind and how childhood experiences contributed to mental health
Freudian psychology
What are the three basic attitudes that make modern science possible
Skepticism humility and curiosity
What are the three basic levels of psychological analysis
Sociological, psychological, biological
This early psychological school trained participants in introspection to discover the mind’s structure
Structuralism
True or false a cause can be determined from correlation
False
A hypothesis is
A testable prediction
Emma is working to test and retest the results of asch’s line study by holding multiple similar studies and comparing results to see if asch’s basic findings can be reproduced. This is known as…
Replication
Dr. Bandits is interested in studying televisions influence on aggression. To study this, he designs an experiment where one group of children are shown a violent cartoon and another group is not. Then the children are placed in a room with a punching bag. Dr bandits records that the children who were shown the bad clip punched the punching bag more what was the independent variable
Exposure to a violent cartoon
What are APA guidelines researchers must follow when working with human experiments
Obtain informed consent
Keep info about participants confidential
Fully debrief people
Protect participants from great than usual harm and discomfort
Dr Paul ekman found major differences in facial expression across cultures with significant in group emotional accuracy true or false
False
The historical emotional theory states that arousal and emotion occur at the same time
Cannon bard theory
Elon musk is depressed cause Jeff basso making more money than him. Comparing himself seems to be the source of his depression… this is know as
Relative deprivation
The behavioral medicine subtitle of psychology
Health psychology
Martin seligman was interested in studying human flourishing and promote the strengths and virtues of his clients. AKA
Positive psychology
This is the fatty tissue encasing the axons
Myelin sheath
Plasticity refers to the brains ability to
Change
Leonard is unable to form new memories due to a terrible accident to this region of the brain. Alzheimer’s,Cronin traumatic encephalopathy and anterograde amnesia also involve this region that is involved in explicit memory formation
The hippocampus
This division of the nervous system consists of the brain and spinal cord
Central nervous system
Homer startled by alarm but remembers there’s a drill and eats donut. What part of homers nervous system down regulates his physiology after this startling arousal?
The parasympathetic nervous system
Dendrites
Receive messages
Axon
Extension that passes messages
Synapse
Junction between the axon and the dendrite
Central nervous system
The brain and spinal cord
