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Bio Psychology
History of Psych
Research Methods
Stress
Bio Psychology
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This type of cell can receive, process and transmit information.
What is a NEURON
100
This word translates to "the study of the mind"
What is PSYCHOLOGY?
100
The study of psychology adheres to this method
What is the SCIENTIFIC METHOD?
100
This nervous system is activated in response to stress, whether they are acute (e.g., 1 discrete event) or chronic (e.g., happen for a long period of time)
What is the AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM?
100
This part of a neuron PROCESSES information
What is the SOMA
200
This part of a neuron receives information
What is DENDRITE
200
This German physiologist conducted what is now referred to as the first psychological experiment. He was evaluating how long it took for someone to press a lever after hearing a sound.
Who is WILLIAM WUNDT?
200
Only this type of experimental design will allow you to definitively know whether one variable causes a change in a second variable
What is an EXPERIMENT?
200
This model illustrates how our body responds to chronic stressors. It is composed of 3 phases
What is the GENERAL ADAPTATION MODEL?
200
These chemical messengers fit with into a receptor like a "lock and key"
What is a NEUROTRANSMITTER
300
This small gap exists between two neurons, and is the site where chemical messengers are released
What is SYNPASE
300
These two schools of thought dominated psychology in the early 1900's. The first school felt that psychology should study the STRUCTURE of the mind (e.g., sensory information), while the 2nd school thought it should study the FUNCTION (e.g., consciousness)
What are STRUCTURALISM and FUNCTIONALISM
300
This type of research design allows you to learn that two variables are ASSOCIATED or RELATED to each other, but it will not allow you to make causal inferences.
What is a CORRELATIONAL DESIGN?
300
This stage of the General Adaptation Model occurs when you are first confronted with a stressor, and your body makes the decision to fight or flee
What is the ALARM REACTION?
300
This is the part of the peripheral nervous system that regulates VOLUNTARY behaviors (e.g., walking, sensory information)
What is the SOMATIC nervous system?
400
This large bundle of fibers connects the two brain hemispheres
What is CORPUS COLLOSUM
400
The Austrian researcher Sigmund Freud developed this form of psychological treatment
What is PSYCHOANALYSIS?
400
This is a preliminary explanation about a set of facts that can be further investigated
What is a HYPOTHESIS?
400
This stage of the General Adaptation Model occurs when your body is physically exhausted
What is the EXHAUSTION phase?
400
This branch of the peripheral nervous system regulates INVOLUNTARY or AUTOMATIC experiences (e.g., heart rate, increased respiration)
What is the AUTONOMIC nervous system
500
These are the two sub-branches of the autonomic nervous system
What are the SYMPATHETIC and PARASYMPATHETIC nervous systems?
500
This researcher famously trained animals to perform human-like activities and used this to support his belief that humans are only responding to the events happening in their environment- thus free will is an illusion.
Who is B.F. SKINNER?
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The following hypothesis is not valid because it is not ___________ and ___________. "Aliens do not visit the Earth because they are concerned about being attacked"
What are TESTABLE and FALSIFIABLE? We don't know whether Aliens don't visit the Earth b/c there are NO aliens or b/c they are concerned about being attacked. Or perhaps they have visited the Earth....
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This model states that your individual reaction to a stressor in your environment is the result of you own personal biological, psychological and social characteristics.
What is the BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL MODEL Remember it like this: BIO-PSYCHO-SOCIAL
500
This section of the brain helps with remembering information- otherwise known as the _ _ _ _ _ _ system
What is LIMBIC