Intro to Human Behavior
It's the field of psychology concerned with how behaviors and psychological traits can have an effect on your physical health.
What is health psychology?
Review types of psychologists, fields of psychology.
It's the mechanism by which experts in a scientific field carefully screen the work of their colleagues, which adds legitimacy and trust to research literature.
What is peer review?
It's the division of the nervous system that is comprised of the brain and spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system?
Know the divisions of the nervous system.
It's the part of the eye that provides the glassy, outside covering. Don't get it scratched!
What is the cornea?
Know the physiology of senses (i.e., parts of the eye, ear, nose, mouth, muscles/skin that relate to sensation).
Containing beta waves, it's the stage of sleep that is--paradoxically--most like wakefulness.
Know the stages of sleep, their EEG wave types, how they oscillate over the course of the night, and how they compare to wakefulness.
It's an overarching model used by Psychologists to understand that many behaviors can only be fully explained by combining three domains.
What is the biopsychosocial model?
Required for a study's participants to be considered a true experiment, it's the subset of individuals chosen from a larger set, in which all the subset has the same probability of being selected.
What is a random sample?
Know sample vs. population, random sampling, and random assignment.
They're the broad class of chemicals that stop the actions of neurotransmitters. Caffeine is an example of this.
What are antagonists?
Know antagonist vs. agonists
It designates the smallest change in stimuli that humans can perceive.
What is the difference threshold?
Know sensation and perception and terms of thresholds.
Internally driven daily cycles of approximately 24 hours affecting physiological and behavioral processes. Can be affected by external stimuli.
What are circadian rhythms?
It's the principle of all sciences that involves collecting observations, testing predictions about how to best explain the observations, and developing theories.
What is the scientific method?
Understand the scientific method, theories, hypotheses.
It's the relationship that occurs between two variables when they are inversely related, such that when one increases, the other decreases--like mobile phone use during class and academic performance.
What is a negative correlation?
They're the tree-like part of the neuron responsible for receiving chemical transmissions from other neurons.
What are dendrites?
Know the parts of the neuron and how they relate to neurotransmission (electrical and chemical).
Though they aren't very effective in controlling long-term behavior, they can prime responses. Their examples include stimuli presented too quickly for the naked eye or too quiet for the ear to consistently detect.
What are subliminal messages?
Know their abilities and limitations.
It is the hypothesis of dreaming that maintains that dreaming is not a completely random by-product of brain stem activity but rather reflects waking preoccupations and emotional experiences.
What is the neurocognitive hypothesis of dreaming?
Compare/contrast the theories of sleep and the theories of dreams.
Physician who identified that brain damage correlated with functional impairment through his work with patient named Tan.
Paul Broca
It's the measure of central tendency that shows what value appears most often in a set of data.
What is the mode?
Know terms of basic descriptive statistics.
It's the lobe of the cerebral cortex responsible for vision processing.
Know the four lobes of the cerebral cortex, the parts of the limbic system, and their relative functions.
They're the proper names of the sensory systems responsible for taste and smell.
What are gustation and olfaction?
What is methamphetamine?
Credited with establishing the first psychology laboratory and widely regarded as, "the Father of Psychology."
Wilhelm Wundt
What is the Central Limit Theorem?
It's the neurotransmitter responsible for increasing heart rate and muscle tension, vasoconstriction, and mast cell stabilization--which comes in handy in the case of severe anaphylaxis.
What is epinephrine?
Know the most common neurotransmitters.
The principle of "wholeness" or "fullness," research in this area demonstrates how we perceive and group images through processes like figure & ground, similarity, and proximity.
What is Gestalt Psychology?
It is the theory that explains hypnosis as a unique state in which consciousness is divided into two parts: an observe and a hidden observer.
What is the dissociation theory?
Know different theories of hypnosis and dreaming.