bitch

Based 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