Definitions
The scientific study of the mind and behavior
What is psychology?
The goal of psychology is to identify the components of consciousness and how they combine to form our conscious experience
What is structuralism?
Our problems stem from our unconscious mind
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The major limitation of case studies
What is a lack of generalizability?
The neuron directly following the synaptic gap
What is the postsynaptic neuron?
Examining your own conscious experience, as objectively as possible, in an attempt to make the mind observable/measurable
What is introspection?
Psychology should be concerned with the observation and control of behavior
What is behaviorism?
First American psychologist
Who is William James?
Jane Goodall could be said to have used this research method
What is naturalistic observation?
The two main subdivisions of the peripheral nervous system (PNS)
What are the somatic and autonomic nervous systems?
A type of learning focusing on how behavior is affected by its consequences
What is operant conditioning?
Psychology's purpose is to study how our mental activities help us survive in our environment
Functionalism
The father of behaviorism, who conducted the Little Albert experiment
Who is John B Watson?
The group who reviews and approves human subject research studies
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
This lobe of the brain is associated with hearing, memory, and emotion
What is the temporal lobe?
An incoming electrical signal is either sufficient to reach the threshold of excitation or it is not
What is the all-or-none principle?
People's problems can be addressed through word association, dream analysis, and slips of the tongue
What is psychoanalytic theory?
Believed that focus on behavior was incomplete and that psychology needed to return to examining mental functioning in order to understand behaviors
Who is Noam Chomsky?
The thing being manipulated by the researcher
What is the independent variable?
If the charge reaches this, then an action potential will occur
What is the threshold of excitation?
An area of psychology that focuses on cognitions (thoughts) and their relationship to our experiences and actions
What is cognitive psychology?
Psychologists must have genuineness, empathy, and unconditional positive regard in order to be successful
What is humanism?
Popularized a therapeutic technique where the patient takes the lead role in therapy
Who is Carl Rogers?
Seeing relationships between two things when in reality no such relationship exists
What are illusory correlations?
Using caps with electrodes, this form of neuroimaging can study the precise timing of overall brain activities by tracking amplitude and frequency of brainwaves
What is EEG?