Studied by 27 peopleBased on the idea that the mind functions by combining objective sensations and subjective feelings
Structuralism
Based on the belief that humans have the capacity for self fulfillment and the ability to make conscious choices
Humanistic Perspective
Based on the belief that adaptive behavior patterns are learned and maintained because they help people operate more efficiently
Functionalism
Focuses on the influence that issues such as ethnicity gender and economic status have on behavior and mental processes
sociocultural perspective
Focuses on the importance of unconscious motives and conflicts in determining human behavior
psychoanalytic perspective
dreaming
Example of cognitive activity
Clinical psychologist
A person suffering from depression is treated by a
Help a school district choose a standardized test
An educational psychologist would most likely do
Forensic psychologist
Who works with the criminal justice system?
Psychiatrist
A medical doctor who specializes in treating psychologists problem is a
Were possessed by demons
In middle ages it was commonly believed that people who acted stangely
Wilhelm wundt
Who established the first laboratory for the scientific study of the mind?
Reinforcement
What concept was central to the work of b.f skinner
Gestalt psychology
The statement that "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts" characterizes which theory or perspective
Cognitive
Which perspective has been most influenced bt computer
Maturation
The automatic and sequential process of development that results from genetic signals
Sensorimotor
The cognitive stage of development in which children learn to coordinate what they perceive with motor activity
Secondary sex characteristics
Characteristics of the body that distinguish males and females but are not directly involved in reproduction
Juvenile delinquency
Illegal activities committed by children or adolescents
Ego intregity
The characteristics that enables people to accept approaching death as a part of life
Religion
Parents generally influence adolescents more than peers on what issues
Jean piaget
Who suggested that the main task of adolescence is the search for identity
Diffusion
Adolescents who wander about without goals or interests are experiencing identity
They occur in males more than females
Which of the following is not accurate statement about eating disorders
Middlescence
What is the ability to create originate and produce known as
Having ego integrity
What can help people age more successfully
unconditional positive regard
a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance
conditional positive regard
positive regard that is given only when the person is doing what the providers of positive regard wish
Five stages of dying
denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance
Central nervous system
part of the nervous system that consists of the brain and the spinal cord
Somatic nervous system
Part of the peripheral nervous system that is activated by touch and pain
cerebrum
largest part of the brain
Hormones
substances in the body that stimulate growth and many kinds of reactions
genes
Basic building blocks of heredity
Axon
What part of a neuron carries messages away from a cell body?
Synapses on one neuron to the axon terminal of another neuron
Messages are transmitted from one neuron to another through the
Digesting food
What is regulated by the autonomic nervous system
Hindbrain
Which sections of the brain is involved in vital functions such as breathing
Cerebral cortex
The left and right sides of the brain refer to which
CAT scan
What is an imaging technique used to study the brain?
Glands that excrete hormones
What does the body's endocrine system consist of?
By both genes and eviorment
Psychological traits in human beings such as intelligence are influenced
Intelligence is determined largely by genetica
What reflects the "nature" approach to human psychology
Minimum amount of paysical energy that can be delected 50•1. of the time.
What is absolute threshold, and what is difference threshold?
Sensory adaption
What is sensory adaptation? Give an example.
To something for example, when you go into a dark room your eyes eventually adapt to the carries
is when our senses adapt
Pupil
From which part of the eye does the light enter
The lens adjust to the distance of the object by changing it's image
Explain what happens to light after it encounters the lens.
Cones : help detect color rods: helt detect black and white
What are two kinds of photoreceptors? What does each one do?
When people are able to see but not in color
What is color blindness?
Frequency of sound waves determines pitch, amplitude of sounds waves determines loudness
What determines pitch and loudness?
Sound waves are funneled by the outer ear, then vibrate the ear drum and occilles and transmit sound to the inner ear. Then fluid inside cochlea move cilia, generating a bio electrical impulse through auditory nerve to the brain.
How does the ear transmit sounds?
Conductive hears soft sounds and sensorineural hears certain frequencies
What is the difference between conductive deafness and sensorineural deafness?
pressure, temperature, pain
Identify the three skin senses.
kinesthesis: informs people about body position and motion; vestibular: tells people whether they are physically upright or not with eyes close and control sense of balance
What are kinesthesis and the vestibular sense?
allows you to see the entire picture as whole even where there are gaps in what their senses tell them
How does the rule of closure affect perception?
Monocular can be perceived with just one eye. Pinocular requires Doth eyes to be perceived
Contrast monocular cues and binocular cues for depth.
A clinical psychologist works with disorders such as anxiety, depression, and ptsd. while, counseling psychologists help you adapt and give you tools to handle everyday situations
Contrast between a clinical psychologist and a counseling psychologist
a psychologist who studies the emotional, cognitive, biological, personal, and social changes that occur as an individual matures
developmental psychologist
Freud's way of treating people was through dealing with the patients himself.
Difference between freuds research and wundt, watson and skiners research
Traditional behaviorism study the ways humans act, while the social-learning theory studies the way humans learn and the test ways
Traditional behaviorism and social learning theory
It controls the left and rignt sides of our brains which control our logical, creative, and emotional sides.
Why is the cerebral cortex considered unique in every human?
To see whether genetics are actually hereditary or not
General purpose of kinship studies
