Psychological Perspectives
Brain, Body and Behavior
Sensation and Perception
Personality
States of Consciousness
100
This perspective focuses on the idea of no free will and that all behavior is learned.
Behavioral
100
Long fibers that carry messages
Axons
100
This is when you receive info.
Sensation.
100
This seeks pleasure at all costs.
Id
100
Suddenly falling asleep while trying to do other things.
Narcolepsy
200
This theory believes that everyone is good.
Humanistic
200
Branch-like structures that receive info
Dendrites
200
When you interpret info received from senses.
Perception
200
This is the conscious decision maker.
Ego
200
The most common use of this is to help with pain
Hypnosis
300
This theory believes that behavior is learned from culture.
Sociocultural
300
cell body where DNA is located
Soma
300
This is the smallest amount of stimulus a person can detect.
Absolute threshold
300
This causes feelings of guilt.
Superego
300
This is paradoxical sleep.
REM
400
This theory deals with free association and dream interpretation.
Psychoanalytic
400
This lobe processes auditory information
Temporal Lobe
400
This sense is the most effective at stimulating emotional memories
Smell
400
When you try to forget something traumatic
Repression
400
This theory believes that dreams are created by neurons randomly firing.
Activation-Synthesis Theory
500
This theory deals with how we process, store and use info.
Cognitive
500
This lobe deals with vision
Occipital Lobe
500
This part of the eye is the photoreceptive portion.
Retina
500
When you place the blame on something or someone else
Rationalization.
500
Freud believes that dreams reveal these.
Sexual and Aggressive Desires
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