Ch. Test 1&2

The scientific study of behavior and metal processes.

Psychology's great strenght is that is uses scientific observation to systematically answer questions about all sorts of behaviors.

A systematic approach to answering scientific questions.

Anything you do-eating, hanging out, sleeping, talking, or sneezing- is a behavior.

• overt (can be seen)
• convert (internal processes)

Directly observable actions and responses.

You believe something because you researched yourself.

You believe something because of someone else's research.

"The way you want to be treated"

• Psychololgists must carry out investigations with respect for the people who participate and with concern for their dignity and walfare.
• Ensure the welfare of animals and treat them humanely.

To describe, understand, predict, and control behavior.

Any false and unscientific system of beliefs and pactices that is offered as an explanation of behavior.

• Phrenology (the shape of ones skull)
• Palmistry (the lines on the hands that reveals personality traits and predict the future)
• Graphology (personality traits are revealed by handwriting)
• Astrology(the position of the stars and planets at the time of one's birth determine personality traits and affect behavior.)

YES

A form of critical thinking based on careful measurement and controlled observation.

• Making observation
• Defining a problem
• Proposing a hypothesis
• Gather data
• Publish results

A system of ideas designed to interreiate concepts and facts in a way that summarizes existing data & predicts future observation.

A statment of the predicted outcome of an experiment or an educated guess about the relationship between variables.

A school of psychology emphasizing the study of thinking, learning, and perception in whole units, not by analysis into parts.

The school of psychology that emphasizes the study of overt, observable behavior.

Much human behavior can be understood in terms of the mental processing of information.

A approach to psychotherapy emphasizing the exploration of unconscious conflicts.

The interest in human potenetional, ideals, and problems.

Conditioning, a learned reaction to a particular stimulus, to explain most behavior.

A formal trail undertaken to confirm or disconfirm a hypothesis about cause and effect.

In a controlled experiment, the group of subjects exposed to all experimental conditions or variables except the independent variable.

In a controlled experiment, the group of subjects exposed to the independent variable or experimental condition.

The use of chance (for example, flipping a coin) to assign subjects to experimental and control groups.

In a experiment, the condition (usually a behavior) that is affected by the independent variable.

In a experiment, the condition being investigated as a possible cause of some change in behavior. The vaules that this variable takes are chosen by the experimenter.

An inactive substance given in the place of a drug in psychological research or by physicians who wish to treat a complaint by suggestion.

Changes in participants' behavior caused by the unintended influence of a researcher's actions.

An arrangement in which both participants and experimenters are unaware of whether participants are in the experimental group or the control group, including who might have been administered a drug or a placebo.

An arrangement in which participants remain unaware of whether they are din the experimental group or the control group.

The tendency of an observer to distort observations or perceptions to match his or her expectations.

The error of attributing human thoughts, feelings, or motives to animals, especially as a way of explaining their behavior.

Observing behavior as it unfolds in natural settings.

A nonexperimental study designed to measure the degree of relationship (if any) between two or more events, measures, or variables.

In psycohology, a public polling technique used to answer psychological questions.

The point at which a nerve impulse is triggered.

The microscopic space between two neutrons, over which messages pass.

The disease occcurs when the immune system attacks and destroys the myelin in a person's body.

The sympathetic nervous system

The parasympathetic nervous system

The simplest bahavior, in which a stimulus provokes an automatic response

• Autopsy
• CT Scan
• MRI Scan
• EEG
• PET Scan
• fMRI

Cutting of the corpus callosum

• Left side brain= Right side body
• Right side brain= Left side body

About 10% of the populaion is left-handed

The Occipital lobe

Voice deeping or baldness in women & shrinking of the testicles, sexual impotence, or breast enlargement in men

Releases a hormone called melation in response to daily variations in light. Melation levels in the bloodstream rise at dusk, peak around midnight, and fall again as morning appoarchs. As far as the brain is concerned, it's bedtime when melatonin levels rise.

Regulates metabolism

Is the source of epinephrine and nonepinephrine & produces a set of hormones called corticoids

To regulate growth , regulating many behaviors, influences other gland.