Ep 1
The science of behavior and mental processes.
What is psychology?
What are the three rules of the scientific method?
Question and theory.
Hypothesis, testable prediction.
Test with a replicable experiment.
What are the three types of neurons stated?
Bipolar, Unipolar, Multipolar.
The detailed study of the cranium as a supposed indication of character and mental abilities. Proven not to work.
What is phrenology?
How do we register the brightness of a color?
By the intensity of it’s wavelengths
When were the first psychological exams given?
Two-thousand years ago.
Watching and studying the behavior of someone or something.
What are naturalistic observations?
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)
What are the parts of “The old brain?”
Medulla, pons, thalamus, cerebellum.
The top-down way our brains organize and interpret that information and put it into context
What is perception?
Who was the first to describe mental illness, and open up their own mental ward?
Muhammed Ibn Zakariya Al-Rhazes AKA Rhazes
Surveys and interviews.
Transmits signals when either stimulated by sensory input or triggered by neighboring neurons
What are neurons?
What are the parts of the limbic system?
Amygdala, Hypothalamus, Hippocampus
The bottom-up process by which our senses, like vision, hearing, and smell, receive and relay outside stimuli
What is sensation?
What is considered the first true psychology textbook?
The principles of psychology
Correlation vs causation?
Correlation can predict a possibility.
Causation is the proof.
What neurotransmitters are both inhibitory and excitatory?
Dopamine and acetylcholine
How many lobes does the cerebral cortex have? What are the names?
Four lobes, the frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital
What does webers law state?
We perceive differences on a logarithmic, not linear scale
What book introduced psychoanalysis?
The interpretation of dreams
Experimental group VS control group?
Experimental group = Tampered with
Control group = Not tampered with
What is the “feedback loop” that occurs in your brain?
Your nervous system directs your endocrine system which directs your nervous system.
How much of your brain does the two hemispheres of your cerebrum make up?
85 percent
What is prosopagnosia?
Face blindness, a neurological disorder that impairs a persons ability to perceive or recognize faces