Levels of Explanation
Ulric Definition
Early Psychology
Parts of Brain
Laws of Perceptual Grouping
100

There is no point to existence and human life is absurd.

What is Philosophy

100

Information about world in brain has to be transformed. EX: His shirt is red - info in brain is representative as code

What is Transformed

100

Who coined Physiological Psychology?

What is Herman Von Helmholtz

100

The part of brain with complex visual/touch perception?

What is Parietal Lobe

100

Objects that are near or proximate to each other tend to be grouped together.

What is Law of Proximity

200

Sadness is caused by anomie

What is Sociology

200

Only so much we can think about/screen out things around us. EX: Driving talking to friend - listening to music and someone pulls out in front of you. 

What is Reduced

200

Who coined Structuralism?

What is Wilhelm Wundt

200

The part of brain with strategic thinking, social cognition, short term memory?

What is Frontal Lobe

200

Group together similar things

What is Law of Similarity

300

Caused by learned helplessness

What is Behavioral Psychology

300

Add something (info) to what you're observing. EX: Hear barking in  backyard see dog and goat. Conclude: dog barking at goat (inference/interpretation) didn't actually see happen. 

What is Elaboration

300

Who coined Functionalism; stream of consciousness?

What is William James

300

The part of brain for hearing language decoding and long term memory?

What is Temporal Lobe

300

Form objects to form closed patterns.

What is Law of Closure

400

Caused by upward social comparisons

What is Social Psychology

400

Currently perceiving has to be stored. EX: Remember house - only can cause stored it.

What is Storage

400

Who coined Psychoanalysis?

What is Sigmund Freud

400

Part of brain for vision pattern recognition?

What is Occipital Lobe

400
Group a symmetrical pattern rather than same shapes not formed symmetrically.

What is Law of Symmetry

500

Caused by shortage of neurotransmitters in reward centers of brain

What is Neuroscience

500

Could recover stored information. EX: remember childhood house

What is Recovered

500

Who coined Behaviorism?

What is John Watson

500

Part of brain that receives information from the sensory systems, the spinal cord, and other parts of the brain and then regulates motor movements. The cerebellum coordinates voluntary movements such as posture, balance, coordination, and speech, resulting in smooth and balanced muscular activity?

What is Cerebellum

500

Group things in straight lines or smooth curves.

What is Law of Good Continuation