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