PSYCH CH1

The study of human behavior and mental processes.

To describe, understand, predict, and control behavior.

Behavior that cannot be seen

Behavior that can be seen

• The school of thought concerned with analyzing sensations and personal experience into basic elements.
• Edward Titchener/Wundt

• How the mind functions to help us adapt to the enviornment.
• William James

• Margaret washburn - First woman PH.D
• Fancis Cumner - First Black with PH.D
• Inez Beverly Porsser - First Black woman to ear PH.D
• Proved woman are more likely to make moral decisions rather than justic.

• 1.Observation
• 2.Defining a problem
• 3.Proposing a Hypothesis
• 4.Experimentation
• 5.Theory Formulation

A tentative statement about, or explanation of, and event or relationship.

A system of ideas designed to inter-relate concepts and facts in a way that summarizes existing data and predicts future observations.

Only the subjects dont know.

The subjects and experimenter are unaware

Variables the experimenter wishes to prevent from affecting the experiment.

• Exposed to all conditions except te independent variable.
• Provides point of reference.

Dendrites, Soma, Axon, Axon Terminals,

Spine, Brain,(CNS), everything else (PNS)

Nonverbal, Perceptual Skills, Visualization, recognition of patterns, spatial skills, simple language comprehension.

Language, Speech, Writing, Calculation, Time sense, Rhythm, Ordering of complex movements.

Made up of glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream where they affect inernal activites and visible behavior.

if a person thinks your are clever or stupid, they will treat you that way, in which you will begin to perform that way.