PSYCH 101 final JMU Latest 2022
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Formed by combining ____________ and _______________ ✔✔philosophy and physiology
structuralism ✔✔how we do something/ how things work
reductionism ✔✔reducing things to their
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PSYCH 101 final JMU Latest 2022
Graded A+
Formed by combining ____________ and _______________ ✔✔philosophy and physiology
structuralism ✔✔how we do something/ how things work
reductionism ✔✔reducing things to their parts
functionalism ✔✔why something works as a whole/why is it there/what does it do for us
Freud's contribution to functionalism ✔✔the concept of unconscious
behaviorism ✔✔break behavior down to smallest part
Skinner ✔✔radical behaviorism
radical behaviorism ✔✔society determines peoples behavior so teach people to be good citizens
Rogers and Maslow ✔✔humanism
humanism ✔✔people are unique
emphasis on personal growth and fulfilling potential
free will
cognitive psychology ✔✔1960s
study of mental processes
how we process information and how it influences our behaviorevolutionary psychology ✔✔natural selection
DNA determines behavior
psychiatry ✔✔can give medicine
medical degree
clinical psychology ✔✔severe mental/emotional issues
basic counseling
counseling psychology (social work) ✔✔basic therapy
not serious disorders
developmental psychology ✔✔womb to tomb
people change and are influenced over time
study of change and continuity over time
social psychology ✔✔why do people do what they do
how are people influenced
used scientific methods to understand and explain how behavior thoughts and feelings of
individuals interact
population ✔✔complete group you want study to apply to
sample ✔✔everyone in the experiment that you're studying
conclusions made based on sample represent the population
random ✔✔everyone in population has an even chance to be in study
goal is to generalize accuratelyrandom assignment ✔✔equal chance to be put in groups
operational definitions of variables ✔✔different people will explain their experience differently
leading to different results
validity ✔✔how well does procedure actually measure the variable being studied
relibality ✔✔are the same results obtained with repeated measurements
naturalistic observation ✔✔observing behavior in its natural context
allows for real life behavior
lacks control, participants might not react, observer bias
case study ✔✔intense observation of 1 person or a small group
allows for rich data
doesn't allow representativeness
surveys ✔✔efficient, quick and cheap
question bias and truthfulness of answers
experiments ✔✔need at least 2 groups: experimental and control
control group is getting the thing
dependent/independent variables
allows for control and discovering cause and effect
could be artificial, interferes with ethics
placebo effect ✔✔a beneficial effect, produced by a fake treatment, that cannot be attributed to the
properties of the placebo itself, and must therefore be due to the patient's belief in that treatment
correlation ✔✔an indication of relationship between 2 variablespositive=both going same way
negative= going different ways
direct cortical stimulation ✔✔
fMRI ✔✔giant magnet that aligns electrons to monitor blood flow
can't tell you when something happens only where
brain plasticity ✔✔
consciousness ✔✔your interpretation of awareness of world around you
conscious ✔✔aware of events and mental processes
preconscious ✔✔mental events outside awareness but can easily be aware of with some focus
unconscious ✔✔events actively kept out of consciousness
non conscious ✔✔mental processing removed
dual process ✔✔emotional process almost always wins
bottom up processing ✔✔sense receptors> mind> build interpretation
pure sensation
top down processing ✔✔make interpretations from experiences and expectations
try to make sense using your interpretation
attention ✔✔can't attend to every stimuli around us so have to decide what to pay attention tointentional blindness ✔✔selective attention
change blindness ✔✔when something changes in front of your face and you don't see it
divided attention ✔✔no such thing as multitasking only divided attention
circadian rhythms ✔✔cycle of behaviors that repeat about 24 hours
beta waves ✔✔awake
alpha waves ✔✔drowsy
theta waves ✔✔light sleep stage 1
sleep spindles ✔✔asleep stage 2
delta waves ✔✔stage 3/4 deep sleep, big slow waves
REM sleep ✔✔body is completely relaxed but brain appears awake in a scan
right before you wake up
deep sleep ✔✔occurs earlier in the night
functions of sleep ✔✔memory consolidatio
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