brain parts

  • thalamus - relay motor and sensory information
  • emotion center - limbic system
  • amygdala - part of limbic system, fear anger
  • planning/problem solving - frontal lobes
  • axon terminal button -
  • cerebellum - near back, motor activity

psychologists

  • jian piaget - child development
  • erik erikson - adolescents deal with identity
  • freud
    • ego, superego, id
      • ego - mediator
      • superego - conscience
      • id - instincts
    • psychodynamic theory
  • alred adler v freud - alfred about one psychology
  • stanley milgram
    • delivering shock, obeying to authority
  • bandura, aggression -
  • carl rogers - unconditional approval
  • john watson - conditioning babies
  • francis galton -
  • structuralist -
  • functionalist -
  • gestalt psychologist -

physiology

  • myelin sheath -
  • eyes have to quiver to prevent adaptation
  • taste is least potent sense
  • semicircular canals - detect head movements
  • perceptual organization, similarity
  • sleepwalking - stage 4 sleep
  • symapethic nervous system - fight or flight
  • just noticeable difference - threshold for being noticeable at least half the time
  • sleep stages -
  • delirium tremens - alcohol withdrawal, confusion
  • stimulant, cocaine, heroin, barbs
    • barbituates - depressant
  • comparative psychologist - look for characteristics between species
  • cognitive psychologist -
  • environmental psychologist -
  • industrial/organizational psychologist - in the workplace
  • replication - increases study confidence
  • psychoanalysis - people unaware of the forces behind their behavior
  • cell activity
    • electrical within the cell
    • chemical between cells - neurotransmitters
  • 31
  • types of conditioning, pavlov, operant
    • classical - pairing unconditioned stimulus (meat) with neutral stimulus (bell)
    • operant -
  • shaping technique
  • learning
    • reinforcement
    • experience
  • instinctual drift - natural behavior interferes with learning
  • emotions
    • goal directed behavior
    • cognitive awareness
    • physiology
    • changes in feeling
  • types of memory, sensory, flashbulb, short-term
  • goal directed behavior
  • maslows need hierarchy - physiological needs, safety, love, esteem, self actualization
  • hypnosis - some hypnosis has worked in medical procedures, divided state of consciousness?
  • teratogen - foreign agent that mutates embryo
  • secondary sex characteristics - not related to sex organs
  • social learning theory
  • approach avoidance conflict
  • schizophreni - excess dopamine
  • conman - antisocial behavior
  • most common mental disorder, anxiety, psychotic,
  • introduction of drug treatment effect on injuries from mental disorders
  • cognitive dissonance - inconsistent thoughts
  • expedient conformity -
  • tendency to conform, jap vs us
  • frustration and aggresion -
  • sympathetic nervous system - alerting
  • parasympathetic nervous system - calming
  • primary taste sensations - sweet, sour, bitter, salt, umami
  • prototype, schema -
  • learned helplessness - traumatic event
  • james lange theory -
  • rooting response - reflex for babies to nurse
  • formal operations - children can think abstractly about problem
  • concrete operations - children need objects to think
  • conventional level
  • agoraphobia - fear of scary situations
  • acrophobia - fear of heights
  • broca's area - language expression
  • weber's law - perception is exponential