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The science of behavior and mental processes.

What is psychology?

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What are the three rules of the scientific method?

Question and theory.

Hypothesis, testable prediction.

Test with a replicable experiment.

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What are the three types of neurons stated?

Bipolar, Unipolar, Multipolar.

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The detailed study of the cranium as a supposed indication of character and mental abilities. Proven not to work.

What is phrenology?

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How do we register the brightness of a color?

By the intensity of it’s wavelengths 

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When were the first psychological exams given?

Two-thousand years ago.

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Watching and studying the behavior of someone or something.

What are naturalistic observations?

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What are the three basic parts of a neuron? 


(Bonus points, what do they do?)

Soma (contains all the necessary cell action)

Dendrites (receives messages from other cells)

Axon (transmits electrical impulse from the cell body)

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What are the parts of “The old brain?”

Medulla, pons, thalamus, cerebellum.

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The top-down way our brains organize and interpret that information and put it into context

What is perception?

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Who was the first to describe mental illness, and open up their own mental ward?

Muhammed Ibn Zakariya Al-Rhazes AKA Rhazes

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What are used by psychologists to study behaviors and beliefs?

Surveys and interviews.

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Transmits signals when either stimulated by sensory input or triggered by neighboring neurons

What are neurons?

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What are the parts of the limbic system?

Amygdala, Hypothalamus, Hippocampus

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The bottom-up process by which our senses, like vision, hearing, and smell, receive and relay outside stimuli

What is sensation?

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What is considered the first true psychology textbook?

The principles of psychology

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Correlation vs causation?

Correlation can predict a possibility.

Causation is the proof.

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What neurotransmitters are both inhibitory and excitatory?

Dopamine and acetylcholine 

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How many lobes does the cerebral cortex have? What are the names?

Four lobes, the frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital 

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What does webers law state?

We perceive differences on a logarithmic, not linear scale

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What book introduced psychoanalysis?

The interpretation of dreams

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Experimental group VS control group?

Experimental group = Tampered with

Control group = Not tampered with



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What is the “feedback loop” that occurs in your brain?

Your nervous system directs your endocrine system which directs your nervous system.

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How much of your brain does the two hemispheres of your cerebrum make up?

85 percent

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What is prosopagnosia?

Face blindness, a neurological disorder that impairs a persons ability to perceive or recognize faces

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