Week 1
An approach to psychology based on the idea that conscious experience can be broken down into its basic underlying components or elements (structures of the mind).
Structuralism
As one variable goes up, other variable goes down.
Negative Correlation
What brain structures are involved with triggering puberty?
-anterior pituitary
-posterior pituitary
Whose theory says, Emotions are adaptions. They evolved to help solve survival problems.
Ekman
Is intrinsic or extrinsic better in the long run?
Intrinsic
Founder of modern psychology.
Established first psychology lab in 1879.
Structuralism.
Introspection.
Wilhelm Wundt
What does H.O.M.E.R. stand for?
Hypothesize,
Operationalize,
Measure,
Evaluate,
Replicate/reviese/report
-Middle adulthood
-Look beyond the self and care for others, contribute to the future
(Which one of Erikson's stages?)
Generativity vs. stagnation
Remorse, embarrassment, curiosity, and jealousy are all ______.
Secondary emotions.
Secure, avoidant, ambivalent, disorganized are all stages of what?
Infant attachment stages
An approach to psychology concerned with the adaptive purpose (function) of mind and behavior.
Functionalism
The extent to which the experimenter can make confident statements about cause and effect.
Validity
a strong emotional and physical attachment to at least one primary caregiver is critical to personal development.
Attachment Theory
A brain condition that causes thinking, memory, and behavior to deteriorate progressively.
What is dementia?
Which one of Piaget's stages of development is birth to 2. Object permanence is acquired at this stage.
Sensorimotor Stage
Name 2 of the Major Movements in Psychology.
-Psychoanalysis
-Behaviorism
-Cognitive Revolution
-Neuroscience
-Informatics
-Multidisciplinary
A measure that represents the typical response or the behavior of a group as a whole.
Central Tendency
-Anger
-Fear
-Sadness
-Disgust
-Happiness
-Surprise
-contempt
are all examples of
Primary emotions
Stimulus --> arrousal --> emotion is whose model of emotion?
James-Lange Theory
What is this definition of? A personal sense of being masculine or feminine?
Gender Identity
A fundamental psychological issue asking whether mind and body are separate and distinct or the mind is simply the physical brain's subjective experience.
What is the Mind/Body Problem?
Name 3 Ethics Rules
-Privacy
-Access to data
-Informed Consent
-Relative risks of participation
Name Erikson's Lifespan Development Stages (this one might be really hard)
1. Identity vs. Confusion
2. Intimacy vs. Isolation
3. Generativity vs. stagnation
4. Integrity vs. despair
Which thoery says, "The more internal the locus of causality, the more self-determined the motivation will be."
Self-determination Theory
Hypothesize, Operationalize, Measure, Evaluate, Replicate/Revise/Report are all steps of?
The scientific method