Schools of Psyc
Scientific study of mind and behavior.
What is psychology?
Consistency in measurement.
What is reliability?
Receives information from presynaptic neurons and sends information towards the cell body.
What are dendrites?
Involved in abstract thinking, planning, decision-making, and judgment.
What is the frontal lobe?
What is cognitive psychology?
Descartes' belief that the body and mind are fundamentally different entities.
What is dualism?
Participants behave in ways they think you want them to behave.
What are demand characteristics?
Sends information from the CNS to voluntary muscles and glands.
What are motor (efferent) neurons?
The brain's ability to change in response to environmental stimuli.
What is plasticity?
Watson and Skinner believe in observable behaviors.
Kant's view that some knowledge is innate.
What is nativism?
r = .87
What is a positive correlation?
Too much results in symptoms of schizophrenia.
What is dopamine?
Genes and environment interact to determine which genetic traits are expressed.
What is epigenetics?
These psychologists apply psychology to the workplace.
What are industrial organizational psychologists?
Structuralist with the first psychology lab and textbook.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
The degree to which the independent variable is said to cause changes in the dependent variable.
What is internal validity?
Prevents neurotransmitters from binding.
What are antagonists?
Helps interpret information from the primary cortical areas; has less specialized cells.
What are association areas?
Study of the relationship between the brain and behavior.
What is behavioral neuroscience?
Adaptive significance of mental processes (i.e., purpose of mental processes)
What is functionalism?
The Belmont Report.
What are respect for persons, beneficence, and justice?
Stops energy expenditure, calms body (i.e., rest and digest)
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
Involved in hunger, temperature, thirst, and sexual behavior.
What is the hypothalamus?