PSYCHOLOGY 101 EXAM 1 LATEST
2022
Define science of Psychology ✔✔Psychology is the scientific study of behaviour and mental
process
Empiricism ✔✔Belief that knowledge comes exclusively through the senses or through e
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PSYCHOLOGY 101 EXAM 1 LATEST
2022
Define science of Psychology ✔✔Psychology is the scientific study of behaviour and mental
process
Empiricism ✔✔Belief that knowledge comes exclusively through the senses or through experience
Pseudoscience ✔✔A fake or false science that makes claims based on little or no scientific
evidence.
Case Study ✔✔An in-depth examination of one individual, or a small number of individuals
The Survey ✔✔An investigation of many cases in less depth by asking people to report opinions
and behaviours
Naturalistic observation ✔✔recording behaviour in its natural environments, and describing it in
detail
Experimentation ✔✔Purpose is to explore cause and effect by manipulating one or more factors,
while holding other factors constant
independent variable ✔✔The experimental factor that is manipulated; the variable whose effect is
being studied (i.e if you are testing if breastfeeding kids has a difference or not in their intelligence
later in life, the independent variable is breast milk and formula)
Dependent Variable ✔✔The outcome factor; the variable that may change in response to
manipulations of the independent variable.
Difference between Descriptive and correlational research methods ✔✔Descriptive research
method is to observe and record behaviour. Correlational research method is to detect naturally
occurring relationships . Nothing is manipulated in these two research methods.
Biological Psychology ✔✔The basic assumption that everything psychological is biological
Phrenology ✔✔A popular but wronged theory in the 1800's that claimed that bumps on the skull
could reveal mental abilities and character traits.
Sensory Neurons ✔✔Carry messages from the body's tissues and sensory organs inward to the
brain and spinal cord for processing
Motor Neurons ✔✔Carry Messages from the brain and out to the bodes tissues
How Neuron's Communicate ✔✔When a neural impluse reaches the terminal of a an axon, it
triggers release of neurotransmitters into the synaptic gap.
Acetylcholine (ACH) ✔✔A neurotransmitter that enables learning and memory and also triggers
muscle contraction
Dopamine ✔✔a Neurotransmitter that influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion.
Serotonin ✔✔a Neurotransmitter that Affects Mood, hunger, sleep and arousal
Norepinephrine ✔✔a Neurotransmitter that helps control alertness and arousal
GABA ✔✔A major inhibitory neurotransmitter
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