Historical
Development and Perspectives
Development and Perspectives
the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Psychology
The basic cell that makes up the nervous system and that receives and sends messages within that system
Neuron
Sensory processes taking in information as raw data or meaningless pieces of information about the external world
Sensation
A person’s awareness of everything that is going on around him or her at any given moment
Consciousness
the scientific study of the changes that occur in people as they age from conception until death
Human Development
the four goals of psychology...
description, explanation, prediction, & control
How long does it take for action potential?
one-thousandth of a second
Absolute threshold is...?
the lowest level of stimulation that a person can consciously detect 50 percent of the time the stimulation is present
Waking conscious or Altered consciousness?
State in which there is a shift in the quality or pattern of mental activity as compared to waking consciousness
true or false?
The participants who are exposed to the independent variable in any experiment should be randomly assigned to the different experimental conditions
true
Believed that consciousness could be broken down into thoughts, experiences, emotions, and other basic elements
Wilhelm Wundt
resting potential happens when...
the cell is at rest and ions channels are closed
stimuli that are below the level of conscious awareness
Subliminal stimuli
effortful processing=_____________
explicit processing
Advantage of _________ looks at real age-related changes as those changes occur in the same individuals
Longitudinal design
brought structuralism to America
Edward Titchener
Inside neuron-
negatively charged
States motivation, biases, and expectations influence our detection of a stimulus
Signal Detection Theory
automatic processing-
Implicit Processing
Psychosocial development: encompasses our _______ and ________ lives.
emotional, social
Structuralism died out in the early _________
nineteen hundreds
True or False
Action potential travels through the axon bulbs – synaptic vesicles release neurotransmitters in the synaptic gap
True
Sensation occurs when...
-special receptor sites on neurons in the sense organs are activated
-various forms of outside stimuli are transduced into neural signals in the brain
Controlled by the brain through the hypothalamus
Circadian Rhythms
Aspects studied under psychosocial development are...
Temperament, Attachment