psych final

centeral route persuasion

logos in persuasion

peripheral route persuasion

using celebs and ethos and pathos for persuasion

Mere Exposture Effect

the more you see someone, the more closer you feel to them, the more you like them

companionate love

love you experience when you marry someone or date someone for a long time

passionate love

like a crush kind of love when you're infatuated

industrial-organizational psychology

behavior in the workplace

clinical psychology

help people with disorders

counseling psychology

a branch of psychology that assists people with problems in living (often related to school, work, or marriage) and in achieving greater well-being

human factors psychology

interaction of people, machines, and physical environments

sports psychology

the study of psychological factors in sports and exercise

health psychology

a subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine

Nueropyschology

connection of brain and body and how it affects behavior

pyschiatrist

specialist that can prescribe medication

biological psychology

studies the links between biological and psychological processes

developmental psychology

a branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span

Cognitive Psychology

the scientific study of all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating

educational psychology

the study of how psychological processes affect and can enhance teaching and learning

personality psychology

the study of an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

locke

the mind is blank slate that the reader writes on

Empiricism

what we know comes from experience

biophysical approach

an integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis

Nature vs. Nurture

Heredity vs. Environment

Psychometrics

studies the measurement of our abilities, attitudes, and traits

critical thinking

thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions. Rather, it examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions.

longitudinal study

research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period

cross-sectional study

a study in which people of different ages are compared with one another

Quasi experiments

control group and not controlled are present

Cerebellum

Balance and coordination

Medulla

controls heartbeat and breathing

parasympathetic nervous system

the division of the autonomic nervous system that calms the body, conserving its energy

place theory

in hearing, the theory that links the pitch we hear with the place where the cochlea's membrane is stimulated

fMRI

A technique for revealing blood flow and, therefore, brain activity by comparing successive MRI scans.

MRI

allows us to see structures within the brain

PET scan

a visual display of brain activity that detects where a radioactive form of glucose goes while the brain performs a given task

Acetylcholine

enables muscle action, learning, and memory

Norepinephrine

helps control alertness and arousal

Glutamate

A major excitatory neurotransmitter; involved in memory

peripheral nervous system

gathers and delivers information to the central nervous system

Hypothalamus

\-controls pituitary gland

\-link between brain and endocrine system

pituatary gland

master gland

thyroid gland

affects metabolism

somatic nervous system

voluntary movements

autonomic nervous system

controls glands and muscles of internal organs

sympathetic nervous system

fight or flight

CT scan

a series of x-ray photographs taken from different angles and combined by computer into a composite representation of a slice through the body

Wenicke's aphasia

can't understand any speech but can talk it

Broca's aphasia

inability to produce speech but can understand it

Opiates

depress neural functioning

Barbiturates

tranquilizers that are sometimes prescribed to induce sleep or reduce anxiety

Amphetamines

releases dopamine which increases mood and energy, parent drug to meth

ectasy

stops reuptake and allows longed periods of serotonin

Hallucinogens

psychedelic drugs, such as LSD, that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input

REM sleep behavior disorder

a neurological disorder in which the person does not become paralyzed during REM sleep and thus acts out dreams

activation-synthesis theory

a theory of dreaming; this theory proposes that the brain tries to make sense of random brain activity that occurs during sleep by synthesizing the activity with stored memories

visual association area

allows brain to see things but not recognize them as object of value

pyschoactive drugs

substances that alter a person's mood, perception, and behavior

latent content

unconscious meaning of the manifest content

manifest content

the remembered story line of a dream

attribution theory

the theory that we explain someone's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition

actor-observer effect

assuming the person did something because of who they are but when you do it there are external factors that lead you to do it

cognitive dissonance

actions dont match beliefs or attitudes

social facilitation

performance goes up when around other people

Groupthink

desire for harmony causes you to look over realistic alternatives

ex: agreeing to do something to keep peace

other-race effect

the tendency to recall faces of one's own race more accurately than faces of other races

self-disclosure

revealing intimate aspects of oneself to others

Equity

give and take

social inhibition

a decrease in performance in front of a crowd

mirror-image perceptions

when we dislike someone, we create an evil image of them in our head

social exchange theory

we weigh the pros and cons before doing something

social-responsibility norm

we should help those who need help

Reciprocity

the obligation to return in kind what another has done for us

Soloman Asch Experiment

figured out that people conform a lot (the line test)

self-fulfilling prophecy

the tendency for people to behave as they are expected to behave

Prisoner's Dilemma

if given a chance to help other ppl and urself slightly or get the choice to help nobody and just urself

superordinate goals

shared goals that override differences among people and require their cooperation

social trap

a short-term solution to a problem that ultimately causes a long-term loss

self-serving bias

the tendency for people to take personal credit for success but blame failure on external factors

Henri Tajfel

Created social identity theory

Geert Hofstede

created a framework of culture

Fovea

the central focal point in the retina, around which the eye's cones cluster

case study

study of one individual in great detail

Wundt

"Father of Psychology"; introspection

social psychology

how humans view and affect each other

humanistic psychology

how humans achieve personal growth and fufillment

Pyschodynamic

how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts

social-cultural psychology

the study of how situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking

hindsight bias

I knew it all along phenomenon

pyschometrics

study of the measurement of human abilities, attitudes, and traits

correlation coefficient

a statistical index of the relationship between two things (strong ones are closer to -1 or +1)

Watson

Little Albert

Rogers

Humanistic

Weber's Law

the just noticeable difference of a stimulus is a constant proportion despite variations in intensity

perceptual constancy

perceiving objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal images change

frequency theory

in hearing, the theory that the rate of nerve impulses traveling up the auditory nerve matches the frequency of a tone, thus enabling us to sense its pitch

Skewed right curve

Positive correlation on a graph

Measures of Variance

range and standard deviation

standard deviation

68%=1

95%=2

99%=3

percentile rank

how something performed against other things