Chapter 1
What is not the goal of Psychology?
Exercising the Mind
Why are replication studies not being prioritized?
1. Replication studies are not as prestigious
2. Publishing depends on having new findings
What is Hemispatial Neglect?
People who ignore left side of space
What perspective views genetic and evolutionary factors and biochemical processes as the major casual factors in behavior?
Biological perspective
What is the somatic nervous system responsible for?
Voluntary motor movements and receiving sensory signals
What are goals of Psychology?
Describing behavior, controlling behaviors, and understand why we behave the way we do
What is an independent variable?
Experimental manipulation
What part of the Nervous system is the "Rest and Digest" system?
Parasympathetic
What roles do the Reticular formation play in?
Consciousness
Protection from overstimulation
Monitoring brain messages
They are brain imaging techniques
What type of research does this question outline?
"Do babies look at pictures of faces or objects more?"
Basic Research
After watching a rom-com, you decide "Absence makes the head grow fonder"
What is this an example of in psychology?
Hindsight Bias
Who founded evolutionary psychology and what is it?
Charles Darwin
What part of the brain controls speech comprehension?
Wernickes Area
A blow to the back of the head it can be fatal if it gets damaged
the Medulla
What are 3 levels of Analysis in Psychology?
Psychological
Biological
Environmental
What is a pro of self-reports?
We can measure ranges of
Beliefs
Feelings
Experiences
What is the purpose of the cerebellum?
Motor coordination
Graded potentials
Hypothesis is best considered as?
Specific Prediction
Modern psychodynamic theory focuses on early relationships with family and caregivers
What do Agnostics do?
What is one thing they don't do?
Agnostics:
Mimic action of neurotransmitter
Promote synthesizing
inhibit reup of neurotransmitter
What is the action potential threshold?
-70 mV to -50 mV
Agonist is to Antagonist as
Facilitate is to hinder
Steps to the Scientific Process in order
Ask Questions
Make hypothesis
Research
Analyze Data
Theory