Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
56 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
American psychologist who established the 1st psychology research laboratory in the U.S. and found the APA
|
G. Stanley Hall
|
|
looking inward in an attempt to reconstruct feelings and sensation experianced immediately after viewing a stimulus object
|
introspection
|
|
the school of psychology and theoretical viewpoint that emphasizes each persons unique potential for psychological growth and self direction
|
humanistic psychology
|
|
American psychologist who founded behaviorism
|
John B. Watson
|
|
emphasizes studying the purpose or function of behavior and mental experiacne
|
funtionalim
|
|
scientific study of behavior and mental processes
|
psychology
|
|
the idea that the mind and body are seperate entities
|
interactive dualism
|
|
a German psychologists who founded psychology as a formal science and opened the 1st laboratory
|
Wilhelm Wundt
|
|
British-born American psychologist who founded structualism
|
Edward B. Titchener
|
|
emphasizes the study of observable behavior
|
behaviorilism
|
|
American psychologist who was largely responsible for finding humanistic psychology
|
Carl Rogers
|
|
anything perceptible to the senses such as sight, sound, smell, touch, or taste
|
stimulus
|
|
the acquisition and modification of behavior in response to environmental influences
|
learning
|
|
FOCUSES ON THE REALTIONSHIP BETWEEN BEHAVIOR AND THE BODY'S PHYSICAL SYSTEMS
|
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
|
|
investigates mental processes, including reasoning and thinking, problem solving, memory, perception, metal imagery, and language
|
cognitive psychology
|
|
research focused onn such basic topics as sensory processes, principles of learning, emotion and motication
|
experimental psychology
|
|
studies the physical, social and psychological changes that occur at different ages and stages of the lifespan
|
developmental psychology
|
|
explores how people are affected by their social environments
|
sociaal psychology
|
|
examines different individual differences and characteristics that make each person unique
|
personality psychology
|
|
focuses on the role of psychologogical factors in the development, prevention, and treatment of illness
|
health psychology
|
|
studies how people of all ages learn
|
educational psychology
|
|
concerned with the relationship between people and work
|
industrial psychology
|
|
studies the causes, treatment, and prevention of different types of psychological disorder
|
clinical psychology
|
|
a statistical technique that involves combining and analyzing the results of many research studies on a specific topic in order to identify overall trends
|
metaanalysis
|
|
to repeat or duplicate a scientific study in order to increase confidence in the validity of the original findings
|
replicate
|
|
a set of assumtions, attitudes, and procedures that guide researchers
|
scientific method
|
|
a tentative statement about the relationship between 2 or more variables
|
hypothesis
|
|
the precise description of how the variables in a study will be manipulated or measured
|
operational definition
|
|
used to demonstrate cause and effect relationships by manipulating a factor to change the second factor
|
experimental method
|
|
a mathmatical method used to summarize data and draw conclusions based on data
|
statistics
|
|
multiple short fibers that extend from the neurons cell body and recieve information from other neurons or from sensory receptor cells
|
dendrites
|
|
processes nutrients and provides energy for the neuron to function; contains the cells nucleus
|
cell body
|
|
the long, fluid-filled tube that carries a neurons messages to other body areas
|
axon
|
|
a white, fatty covering wrapped around the axons of some neurons that increases their communication speed
|
myelin sheath
|
|
the tiny space between the axon terminal of one neuron and the dendrite of an adjoing neuron
|
synaptic gap
|
|
chemical messengers manufactured by the neuron
|
neurotransmitters
|
|
a highly specialized cell that communicates information in electrical and chemical form
|
neuron
|
|
a neurotransmitter that usually communicates an inhiboitory message
|
GABA
|
|
neurotransmitters that regulate pain perception
|
endorphins
|
|
small gaps that seperate segmenta of the myelin sheath that surrounds the axons of many neurons
|
nodes
|
|
a nerotransmitter that is involved in sleepiness and emotional status including depression
|
serotonin
|
|
the part of a neuron that contains the nucleus
|
cell body
|
|
involves the degeneration of patches of the myelin sheath
|
multiple scleriosis disease
|
|
a chemical messenger manufactured in the synaptic vescicles of a neuron
|
neurotransmitter
|
|
a neural condition in which the axons interior is more negativily charged
|
polarized
|
|
the brain structure that regulates the release of hormone by pituitary glands
|
hypothalumus
|
|
stimulates skeletical growth during childhood
|
growth hormone
|
|
system that indicate all the nerves lying outside the central nervous system
|
periperal nerves
|
|
this help us hear, taste, smell, feel, and see by using
|
sensory receptors
|
|
the process by which a form of physical energy is converted into a coded neural signal that can be processed by the nervouse
|
transduction
|
|
states that the size of the just noticeable difference will vary depending on the relation to the strength of the original stimulus
|
Weber's law
|
|
sensory receptor cells become less responsive to a constant stimulus
|
sensory adaption
|
|
biological rhytms are biological and psychological processes that sysnatically vary over a 24-hour period
|
circidian rhythms
|
|
a cluster of neurons in the hypothalumus that governs the timing of cirdian rhtyms
|
superciastnatic nucleus
|
|
a hormone manufactures by the pineal glands which produces sleepiness
|
melatonin
|
|
created by the absence of environmental time cures like sunlight and docks
|
free running conditions
|