Perspectives
Views the mind as a computer...a tool that can store, receive and process information.
What is cognitive psychology?
Contains the brain and spinal cord
What is the central nervous system?
The term for the chemicals that live inside of Neurons and are "fired" in an attempt to respond to stimuli.
What are neurotransmitters?
Narcotics are known to be highly addictive, because they are an agonist for this neurotransmitter.
What are endorphins?
This is the scientific study of behavior
and mental processes.
What is psychology?
Location, gender, social class. All of these may be important this kind of psychologist.
What is a socio-cultural psychologist?
When the sympathetic nervous system is active, our body is often producing this neurotransmitter.
What is epinephrine (adrenaline)?
This neurotransmitter helps regulate our mood and produces emotional feelings of happiness and euphoria.
What is Serotonin?
Freud's dream theories often involved the importance of this "made up" part of the human brain.
What is the unconscious?
Argues that chemicals, hormones and genetics make up the majority of our behaviors.
What is the biological perspective?
You are extraverted because you have learned from watching your parents and their social activity.
The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems are controlled by this system.
The autonomic system.
Principle which describes that a neuron must reach a certain threshold before firing.
What is the all or none principle?
Alcohol, sedatives and tranquilizers are all classified as this type of drug.
What are depressants?
The most common debate in psychology revolves around what most strongly determines our thoughts and behaviors.
What is nature vs. nurture?
Sometimes called the "buffet" approach.
What is eclectic psychology?
What is the Somatic Nervous System?
This neurotransmitter is central to muscle movement and is vital to the somatic nervous system.
What is Acetylcholine?
Increasing evidence shows that this classification of drug has high rates of a psychological dependency.
What are hallucinogens?
The term for the long wirelike structure of the neuron
What is the axon?
This approach is heavily connected to theorists such as Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow.
What is humanistic psychology?
Term for the study of the parts and function of neurons
What is Neuroanatomy?
When a neuron fires, chemicals are released from this part of the Neuron.
What are the terminal buttons?
While we are sleeping and dreaming, our body is doing both of these things:
Protein synthesis and brain plasticity (Maintenace)
In Paleolithic times, this process demonstrated that cave people had an understanding of the brain's role in shaping.
What is trephination?