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Psychology

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-The scientific study of the human brain, mental processes, and behaviour

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Psychologists

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-Aim to describe, predict, and control behaviour and mental processes

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Psychology careers

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-Psychologist
-Therapist
-Teacher
-Police officer
-Social worker

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Benefits of humanist education

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Kids are happy and free of stress, learning at their own pace

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Challenges of humanist education

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Basic literacy, lack of discipline

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Cognition

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Mental processes in the brain

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Bobo doll

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People learn by watching

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Lost in the mall

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Brain created memories based on suggestion

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Neuroscientist

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Specializes in the study of the brain

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EEG

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Electrical activity in the brain

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FMRI

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blood flow, what’s being used

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Frontal lobe

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Controls problem solving, judgement and muscle movement

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Amygdala

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Response to emotion, memories, and fear

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Temporal lobe

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Primary auditory processing

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Medulla

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Heart rate, breathing, swallowing, digestion, and blood pressure

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Teenage brain

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Brain development occurs between 10-25, frontal lobe is the last part of the brain to develop

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Sleep in terms

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9 Hours is ideal, why not: screen time, caffeine, every hour lost increases probability of depression and anxiety

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Neuroplasticity

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Brain is resiliant and adaptable due to injury or new hobbies/interests

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Left brain

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Communication, logic, maths, language, both sides work together every day

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Right brain

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Special awareness, visual imagery, facial recognition, both sides work together everyday

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Pavlovs’s Experiment

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Dog was salivating at the sight of food. Pavlov introduced a bell when giving the food so much that just the sound of the bell causes salivation

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Operant conditioning

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Learning using rewards and punishing to achieve desired behaviour

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Classical condition example

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UCS (unconditioned stimulus) Receiving food while bell is ringing —-> UCR (unconditioned response) salivating

CS (conditioned response) hearing a bell ringing —-> CR (conditioned response) salivating

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Self actualization

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To reach one’s potential only after basic physical and psychological needs are met

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Hierarchy of needs
Physiological and safety needs, then belongingness, love, and esteem needs, finally self-actualization
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Logotherapy
Helps the patients find the purpose or meaning of their life without using the medical side of mental health. People who can't find meaning become depressed.
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Client-centred therapy
Creates a warm, non-judgemental environment where feelings or thoughts can be expressed
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Humanist education
Students encouraged to take responsibility for their learning, students learn best in a non-threatening enviroment
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Dream theme: Falling
Serenity and the act of letting go, something out of control in life
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Dream theme: Death
End of one thing to make way for something new
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Dream theme: Flying
How much control do we have in life
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Lucid dreaming
Aware you are dreaming while still asleep allowing you to control the dreams narrative
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Sleep paralysis
Temporary state of paralysis that occurs when someone regains consciousness while falling asleep or waking
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REM sleep disorder
Act out dreams, aggressiveness, kicking, screaming
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How to find if someone is sleeping
Wake and ask
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Why do people not dream
Damage to pariental lobe, strokes, poor quality of sleep, keep waking up
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Purpose of dreams
Maintain mental health, seeking solutions
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How can dreams help solve problems
Think what we want to dream about to find the answer, think outside the box
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Feminine Psychology
Issues unique to females
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Analytical Psychology
Balancing your psyche allows you to reach your full potential
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The two parts of the unconscious
Personal: Unique to the individual Collective: Shared memories inherited from ancestors
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Psychoanalysis
Belief of unlocking the unconscious mind is the key to understanding human behaviour and relationships
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Behaviour Psychology
Belief in the importance of studying observable behaviour
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Human Psychology
Belief in studying the person as a whole belief that the client should be involved in the recovery
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Cognitive psychology
Study and application of how the brain learns: study of the mental processes (thinking, reasoning, memory)
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Free association
Method used in psychoanalysis where the psychologist says a word and the patient says the first word that comes to mind
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Id (devil)
Instinctual, impulsive, part of the mind (unconscious)
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Ego (referee)
Rational part of the mind (conscious)
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Superego (angel)
Moral centre of the mind (both conscious and unconscious)
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Freudian slip
Verbal or memory mistake believed to be linked to the unconscious mind
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Sigmund Freud
Discovered important facts about the unconscious mind, developed new science of psychoanalysis, most famous psychiatrist in the world by the 1920's
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The basis of psychotherapy
Talking treatment
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Inkblots
Patients showed a meaningless image and their mind tried to come up with a meaning
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Dream analysis
Dreams represented something meaningful rather than being random thoughts
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Schizophrenia
Ventricles enlarge, thinning the frontal lobe Symptoms: auditory and visual hallucinations
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Addiction
Drugs mimic neurotransmitters (dopamine)
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TBI (traumatic brain injury)
Caused by something outside the body (car accident), causes headaches, depression, inability to learn
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Concussions
Sudden blow to head or body, or when violently shaken, causes headaches, dizziness, balance and coordination problems
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CTE
Brain degeneration caused by repetitive trauma
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Personality
An individuals pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
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Psychometric
Uses questionnares and tests to measure personality
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Extroverted (E) vs Introverted (I)
E gets energy from others, I gets energy from being alone
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Introversion
Think before acting, online social networks for communication
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Perfectionism
Set high expectations, overly critical during failure, never happy, anxiety and depression
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Great leader
Know yourself, know your teammates
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Who initiated psychological assessments
Freud
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Identity
The you that you see
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Reputation
The you that society thinks you are
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Dark side
Stress, guards are down, insecure
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Bright side
Person strengths, advance a career, public persona
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It requires a lot of willpower to change your personality
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Openess (Telison)
High, bullied, sad, lonely, expressive creative
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Extroversion (James)
High, centre of attention, talks a lot, loves to go outside
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Motivation
Intrinsic: Comes from within, wanting to get better Extrinsic: Desire to perform due to external factors, punishment and reward
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Respect for the dignity of persons
Informed consent
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Responsible caring
No physical or mental harm
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Responsibility to society
Knowledge of the culture before beginning to work
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Little Albert
Classical conditioning, liked white fluffy objects but when scared by a noise it made him scared of the objects
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Stanford prison experiment
University students recruited and split into prisoners and guards, guards got increasingly more aggressive and the prisoners got submissive
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Milgrim Study
Obedience study, volunteer teacher told to administer shocks of increasing voltage to the learner (actor) when they got the answer wrong

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