Introduction, History, Methodology
The study of human behavior and mental processes.
What is Psychology?
Analysis of the psyche or mind.
What is psychoanalysis
The process by which we recollect prior experiences and information and skills learned in the past.
What is memory
This part of the brain is made up of the medulla, the pons, and the cerebellum.
What is the Hindbrain?
what is done to identify personality?
Identify human characteristics or traits. They also look at the origins of the psychological disorders.
True or False: Psychologists all have the same goals?
True
What are psychological and biological methods?
Two general categories for methods of physcological treatment
Organizing information into management units.
What is chunking
what is CAT?
Computer axial tomography
Two things behaviors can be.
What are voluntary and involuntary?
The main goal of this study is to observe, describe, explain, predict and control the events they study.
What is Psychology?
what s mild form of persistent depression that lasts for at least 2 years?
Dysthymia
A relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by practice or expertise.
What is learning
Language abilities are generally in this hemisphere of the brain.
What is the left hemisphere?
what do PET and fMRI show?
most of our problem solving takes place in the frontal lobes of the brain.
what is working with the criminal justice system about the competence of the defendants?
Forensic
What does DSM stand for?
What does DSM stand for?Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
A condition that deals with voluntary behavior.
what is operant conditioning
what is PET?
Position emission tomography
The primary goal is to help individuals reach their full potential.
What is humanistic therapy?
what works with those that are struggling with a disability to overcome it?
Rehabilitation
What is the name for the fear of being someplace with no escape if something goes wrong?
Agoraphobia
Semantic, Episodic, and Implicit.
The three kinds of memory
What is scans?
A more recent technique they use computers to generate images of the brain from various sources of information.
What is observation learning?
the idea of learning a new behavior by watching or observing others.