psychology

made up of neurons that send and receive information through electrical impulses

• 2% of a person's weight but 20% of the energy

memory, understanding, logic

communication, language, logic, math

spatial awareness, visual imagery, facial recognition

speaking and planning actions

spatial senses, navigation, language processing

visual inputs, memory, emotions, meanings, understanding language

processing visual data (sight)

coordination, precision, timing of movement

• little brain

fine motor skills

• connects brain and spinal cord

memory (transfers into short/long term memory)

emotion (how emotion affects memory, fight or flight)

• 2 almond shaped neural clusters

large circular structure connecting hemispheres

regulates sleep, arousal, attention

Regulates biological needs

Area of the brain responsible for thinking, reasoning, movement, vision, hearing, and speech

Determines ingoing and outgoing information for the cortex

Involved in sleep and arousal

Regulates unconscious functions like breathing and circulation

responsible for communication between brain and the rest of the body -involves simple reflexes

“Master” gland regulates other glands all over the body

Even though our view of an object changes as we move, it remains unchanged to the brain

Brain groups similar items together

Your ability to perceive one thing and not the other (despite both being present)

Natural child-like beliefs

Balances the Id and Superego

Manages morals and tries to make the morally correct decisions

Justifying your actions with an excuse rather than admitting a failure or mistake ex. Getting a bad grade on a test because you didn’t study, but blaming it on the test

Believing a falsehood, rather than accepting reality. ex. An alcoholic saying they are not an alcoholic because they can function throughout the day.

Accusing others of feeling unpleasant emotions that you feel yourself

Running away from a problem

Blocking out thoughts about unpleasant things or experiences

Acting like somebody else; associating somebody’s accomplishments with your own

Expressing feelings towards something or someone not associated with the source of the feelings

Returning to an earlier way of dealing with frustration; returning to a mindset that required less responsibility

Making up for a lack of one thing by achieving something else

Transferring unacceptable behaviours into acceptable ones

The feeling of jealousy due to competition for the attention of a primary caregiver

Son → Mother (attachment)

Daughter → Father (attachment)

Learning that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired

Learning that occurs when a response is paired with punishment or reward to modify the behaviour happening

Positive reinforcement works better because it shows what to do instead of what not to do. There is ambiguity on what you should do if you only know what not to do

Anxiety disorders, mood disorders, personality disorders, schizophrenic disorders, substance related disorders

Is irrational, Leads to personal suffering, Creates interpersonal maladjustment

Inability to function in society and antisocial behaviour that harms others

How men imagine the “ideal woman”

How women imagine the “ideal man”

No proper coping mechanisms

A trance-like state in which a person becomes more aware and focused on particular thoughts, feelings, images, sensations, or behaviours, and are more open to suggestions

the mental process by which one word or image may spontaneously suggest another without any apparent connection to help his patients discover unconscious thoughts and feelings that had been repressed or ignored.

Understanding the psyche by examining dreams, art, religion, philosophy

Accepted Freud’s ideas on the unconscious and its impact on mental health and illness but questioned Freud’s emphasis on sexual motivation and eventually came up with his own views.

Developed the idea that human behaviour was often motivated by opposite tendencies

Collection of experiences, memories etc. common to all of humanity

Ideas, images, beliefs – parts of the collective unconscious

Felt subconscious conflicts start when children are raised feeling unwanted, undervalued

love and understanding in early life

If women have “penis envy” why can’t men have “uterus envy”

Physiological needs (Food, water, warmth, rest), Safety needs (Security), Belongingness and Love (Intimate relationships, friends, family), Esteem needs (Prestige and feeling of accomplishment), Self-Actualization (achieving one’s full potentially

We can only achieve higher needs after achieving lower needs. We strive to move higher on the “ladder”.

attention, retention, action, motivation

Paying attention to what others do, how they do it

storing a mental image– remembering what you observed

converting memory into action

believing that the skill you’ve observed and remembered is important enough to reproduce and get right

The capacity to acquire, ratsretain, and recall knowledge and skills

Information from the environment through senses that is only held for a couple of seconds

If the information is caught on and determined as important, which stays for 15-20 seconds

Mental picture, associating with personal meaning, chunking etc.

Memories that are important to us that stay in our brains for long periods of times

a disorderly functioning of the mind causing abnormal behaviour

When anxiety becomes severe or prolonged, GAD, phobias, OCD

Anxiety that can occur without a given reason

Intense or irrational fear of certain things

A persistent, unwanted thought, followed by a tendency to perform an act repeatedly in order to relieve the anxiety

MDD and BPD

Deeply unhappy and finds little pleasure in life

Extreme mood swings beyond the normal range, manic and depressive

Affect a person;s ability to function in society, making it difficult to relate to others

Distortion of reality, social withdrawal, and disturbances of thought, perception, motor activity and emotions

Harmful use of substances that lead to a significant impairment or distress

How men imagine the “ideal woman”

How women imagine the “ideal man”

No proper coping mechanisms

A trance-like state in which a person becomes more aware and focused on particular thoughts, feelings, images, sensations, or behaviours, and are more open to suggestions

the mental process by which one word or image may spontaneously suggest another without any apparent connection to help his patients discover unconscious thoughts and feelings that had been repressed or ignored.

Understanding the psyche by examining dreams, art, religion, philosophy

Accepted Freud’s ideas on the unconscious and its impact on mental health and illness but questioned Freud’s emphasis on sexual motivation and eventually came up with his own views.

Developed the idea that human behaviour was often motivated by opposite tendencies

Collection of experiences, memories etc. common to all of humanity

Ideas, images, beliefs – parts of the collective unconscious

Felt subconscious conflicts start when children are raised feeling unwanted, undervalued

love and understanding in early life

If women have “penis envy” why can’t men have “uterus envy”

Physiological needs (Food, water, warmth, rest), Safety needs (Security), Belongingness and Love (Intimate relationships, friends, family), Esteem needs (Prestige and feeling of accomplishment), Self-Actualization (achieving one’s full potentially

We can only achieve higher needs after achieving lower needs. We strive to move higher on the “ladder”.

attention, retention, action, motivation

Paying attention to what others do, how they do it