Psychology PART 1

Focus on how brain processes underlie emotional experience, role of emotional expression in health, universal emotions

Located at the skull's rear, the lowest portion of the brain consisting of the medulla, cerebellum, and pons

considers personality and enduring characteristics of individuals. Studies traits, goals, motives, genetics, development

The measure of a central tendency that is the middle score in a sample

Published his ideas in "On the Origin of Species" - approach is natural selection

Involved in motor coordination - is in the hindbrain

An approach to psychology focusing on the body, especially the brain and nervous system

What lobe is C?

Studied Ghandi's life to discover how his spiritual identity developed. Psychodynamic Theorist

The stemlike brain area that includes much of the hindbrain and midbrain; connects with spinal cord

A person who is given a role to plan in an experiment so that the social context can be manipulated

an approach to mental processes, emphasizing the functions and purposes of the mind and behavior

Gave the psychology field an American Stamp; approach is functionalism

The structure in the limbic system that has a special role in the storage of memories

First female president of the American Psychological Association

Integrated philosophy and the natural sciences to create the academic discipline of psychology;approach is structuralism

An individual's genetic heritage; one's genetic material

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An approach to psychology focusing on the scientific study of observable behavioral responses

Researchers are interested in the physical processes that underlie mental operations such as thinking and memory

The entire group about which the investigator wants to draw conclusions

Monitors three pleasurable activities: eating, drinking, and spicy time - emotion, stress and reward

Researchers consider the psychological, social, and cultural influences on women's development and behavior

Gaining knowledge through the observation of events, the collection of data, and logical reasoning

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Focusing on the unconscious thought, conflicts between biological drives and society's demands, and early childhood

The outcome; the variable that may change in responses to other changes

Concerned with how people become who they are from conception to death

The degree to which an experimental design actually reflects the real-world issues it is supposed to address

a definition that provides an objective description of how a variable is going to be measured and observed

Mathematical procedures that are used to describe and summarize sets of data in a meaningful way

Strutures located at the back of the head that respond to visual stimuli

The degree to which changes in the dependent variable are due to the manipulation of the independent variable

The focus on the way in which our biological sex influences our ideas about ourselves as men and women

Everything we do that can be directly observed

Governs sleep and arousal - in the hindbrain

A multidimensional approach to human health that emphasizes psychological factors, lifestyle, healthcare

The branch of psychology that deals with the relationship between physical stimuli and mental phenomena

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a manipulated experimental factor; the variable that is changed to see the effects

Recognized as the first African American to conduct psychological research

Step 2 Scientific Method

Label A

Behaviorism dominated psychological research during the first half of the 20th century under his leadership

an area in which many nerve fiber systems ascend and descend to connect the higher and lower portions of the brain

A measure of dispersion that is the difference between the highest and lowest

involved in stereotyped patterns of behavior such as walking, sleeping, and turning to attend to a sudden noise

The units of hereditary information consisting of short segments of chromosomes composed of DNA

Step 5 Scientific Method

The scientific study of behavior and mental processes

A school of thought interested in how people naturally organize their perceptions according to certain patterns

behind the forehead that are involved in personality, intelligence, and the control of voluntary muscles

Studied to understand how individuals persist to attain difficult goals and how rewards affect this

Research that determines the basic dimensions of a phenomenon: defining what it is, how often it occurs, etc.

What lobe is D?

The participants in an experiment who receive the drug or the other treatment under study

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Mathematical methods that are used to indicate wnether the data sufficiently support a research hypothesis

Refers to an organisms complete genetic material

Deals with people's interactions with one another, relationships social perceptions, social cognition,and attitudes

almond shaped structure within the base of the temporal lobe that is involved in discrimination of objects for survival

emphasized that psychology should be only what people do, and should concern itself with mental processes.

An approach to psychology focusing on the mental processes involved in knowing: how we direct our attention, perceive...

Research that examines how the relationship between variables in order to find out whether and how they change together

Centers in on the work place, involves personnel psychology and organizational psychology

Who is the bozo?

An approach to psychology focusing on the ways in which social and cultural environments influence behavior

The brain's largest division and its most forward part

The intricate process by which behavior changes in response to changing circumstances

An approach focusing on the evolutionary ideas such as adaptation as the basis for explaining specific human behaviors

threadlike structures that come in 23 pairs one member of each pair originates from each parent

The process of reflecting deeply and actively, asking questions, and evaluating the evidence

Step 4 Scientific Method

Contains a large number of dopamine-producing neurons

A measure of central tendency that is the most common score in a sample

An approach focusing on a person's positive qualities, the capacity for positive growth, and the choosing destiny

Diagnoses and treat people with psychological problems

Step 3 Scientific Method

Any aspect of a study that communicates to the participants how the experimenter wants them to behave

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An individuals observable characteristics

A complex molecule in the cell's chromosomes that carries genetic information

Structures at the top and toward the rear of the head involved in registering spatial location, attention, motor control

A broad idea or set of closely related ideas that attempts to explain observations

Governs reflexes and breathing - is in the hindbrain

The participants in an experiment who are treated like the experimental group, just without the manipulated factor

First step to the Scientific method

Focus on the physical systems and psychological processes that allow us to experience the world

The forebrain structure that sits at the top of the brain stem in the brain's central core as a relay station

The observation of behavior in a real-world setting

Examines attention, consciousness, information processing and memory. Called experimental psychologists

What lobe is B?

Label B

A measure of dispersion that indicates how much the scores in a sample differ from the mean in the sample

Structures in the cerebral cortex that are located just above the ears and are involved in hearing, language processing

4 important issues regarding ethics

A measure of central tendency that is the average for a sample

Founding father of the psychodynamic approach

A loosely connected network of structures under the cerebral cortex, important in both memory and emotion

What lobe is A?