History of Psychology
Who is the father psychophysics?
Who is the father of psychology?
Who is Fechner?
Who is Wundt?
Types of research studies
What is case, laboratory, survey, and naturalistic.
Name all parts of a neuron(7)
Dendrites, Soma, Nucleus, Myelin sheath, Axon, Presynaptic terminals, Nodes.
The Acetylcholine antagonist
What is Curare?
Describe an EEG
What did John B. Watson study?
What did Titchener study?
What is behaviorism?
What is experimental, psychology, introspection, and structuralism?
Strengths and weaknesses of experimental research
What are weakness: artificial nature, ethical/practical issues
What are the polarizations and define them
Hyperpolarization- gets more negative
Depolarization- moves towards 0(positive)
Polarization- when it is at resting phase
Damage to the Medulla causes this.
What is being alive by a machine?
Name the four lobes and what they do.
Occipital, visual
Parietal, feeling in the body
Temporal, auditory
Frontal, thinking and reasoning
What is structuralism?
What is 1st formal system of psychology?
Standard deviation
What is numerical depiction of variability
Describe agonist and antagonist.
Agonist: Drug increase a NT
Antagonist: Drug decreases a NT
Describe a fMRI.
What is doing a task while being hooked up to a MRI?
Hippocampus: memory
Amygdala: link with fear, anger
Hypothalamus: motivated behaviors ex. eating, body temp.
What is dualistic notion?
What correlation does urban growth and air quality have?
What is negative correlation?
Define Saltatory Conduction.
What is jumping from node to node from myelinated cells?
Define Plasticity.
What is the brains ability to modify itself after illness or injury?
Define Agraphia, Acalculia, Agnosia.
Agraphia: difficulty with writing
Acalculia: difficulty with math
Agnosia: inability to perceive objects normally
Who is William James?
Who is Helmholtz?
who is unconscious inference?
Extraneous and cofounding variables
Extraneous- Many variables that could affect the outcome ex. age, gender, height
Cofounding- Factors that may cause another result ex. Caffeine study
Name 3 excitatory, 1 inhibitory, and 2 eithers.
Exc: Acetylcholine(Ach), Glutamate, Norepinephrine
Inh: GABA
Both: Dopamine, Serotonin
Unbalanced and shaky movement would be caused from damage to what part?
What is the cerebellum?
Describe Wernicke's area and Broca's area.
Wernicke: impaired understanding; can't understand or speak language
Broca: imparted speaking; can't speak right, gibberish.