Exam one psychology

why is psychology a hub science

due to its strong links and overlapping associations with other fields

Ebers Papyrus

one of the oldest medical journals from ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt

interwinded concepts of the mind and its funtions with religious and spiritual beliefs

heart of the orgin of intelegince, emotions and soul

ancient greece

had temples dedicated to Asklepios providing cures to psychosomatic illenesses

Socrates

emphasized introspection and self-examination

plato

believed in teh esictance of an immortal soul containing reason, spirite and appetite

aristotle

preposed that the mind and body are closley connected and wrote extensively on memory, percpetion, dreams, and learning

ancient china 

psychological concepts were inegrated with philosophy and medicinean

ancient india

early psychological thought was deeply interwined with religious, philosophical and medical traditions

anceint isreal

biblical texts

19th century

when psychology was officlaly and formally proposed and intitiuted

St. Augustine

significant contribuatuions to the understanding of human nature, memory and consciousness and laid ground work for later psychological thought

St. Thomas Aquines 

integrated the philosphy of aristotle into christin doctrine and believed that the soul was a form of body and distinguished it between different types of souls 

Humoral Theory of Health

believed that human health and temperament were governened by teh balance of the 4 bodly fluids and an inbalance caused phsyical and mental illnesses

what are the 4 bodily fluids

blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile

William Wundt

father of modern psychological and established the first lab dedicated to psychological

work demenstrated that the mind could be measured 

beginning to psychology as a scientific discipline

Wundt lab

individual differences

ways in which people differ in terms of their behaviour, emotion, cognition, development

APA

applied psychology in America 

What does the APA do 

representted the interests of acadmeic psychologist xZx

cns

Central Nervous system

what is the CNS

brain and spinal cord, protected by the skull and vertebrae and processes sensory information and sends out instruction

PNS

Peripheral Nervous system

what is the PNS 

all other nerves (other then the spinal cord and brain) 

sensory nervous

sends signals to central nervous system

motor nerves

carry signals from CNS

CNS anatomy

The Forebrain, midbrain, hindbrain

forbrain 

cerebrem, cerbal cortex and subcortical structures 

frontal lob

motor control and problem solving

parietal lobe

hearning memory emotion

temporial lobe

hearing memory emotion

occipital lobe 

vision 

midbrain

in change of arousal/ wakefulness and teh relay of visiul auditory signals

hindbrain

cerebllum, and medulla oblinga and pons

cerebellum

movemnet balance and psoture

medulla oblonga and pons 

breaitng, heart beat, blodd pressure 

brocas area

produces speech

Wernkes area

comprehends langugage

PET Scan

position emission tomography what

what dos a pet scane do

used tracers to detect activity willin the brain and often used to determine brain disorders