Psychology

The SCIENTIFIC study of behaviors and mental processes

The reason you are who you are. was it because of genetics (nature) or your upbringing (nurture)

• what is motivating you?
• Person- Coming within you
• Situation- because you have to

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can stress make you sick?

your unconscious mind motivates behavior

choice of free will

observable behavior

how you think and understand the world.

how does infor go in, stay and exit from your mind

looks @ the roots of your behavior

positive emotions, positive characteristics. what makes ppl happy?

There is no such thing as the best perspective. no such thing as best therapist

pseudoschoence is FAKE science

explanation for scientific problem

finding what you want to find. ignoring what doesnt agree

accepting vauge or general statements as being personal and accurate

• snapshot of what is.
• does not prove nor predict

• is x related to y? doesnt prove anything
• (i.e. is your self-esteem related to your seat in class?)

ranging from -1 to 1

Finding connections where there are none

• the ONLY type of research where you can prove something
• carefuly controlled
• independant and dependant variables

• the one you manupulate in your study
• WHAT DO I CHANGE?

• the one your studying to see if it changed
• event studied and expected to change if I.V. is altered
• manipulate one to see if the other changes
• WHAT DO I OBSERVE?

the ones receiving the treatment (I.V.)

• the comparison group
• everything shold be the same except the I.V.
• WHAT DO I KEEP THE SAME?

• eliminates variables
• it is random to see if result is due to chance or experimental treatment

selection of an unbiased or random group of individual observations

your generational groups

• how does the person asking the question affect your answer
• (looks)

how you change when you are being observed

• give the answer you think ppl want to hear.
• socially acceptable answer

• what is wrong w/ sample of ppl you are using?
• more of one type of group
• not diverse

something is repeated enough that you think its true

• personal account
• (think about info-mercials... those are testimonials)

the power of your mind to make you think something has changed when it really hasnt

the illusion of control

• experiment where neither the subject or experimenter knows the treatment
• eliminates confirmation bias

sensory info (raw data)

the process of creating meaningful patters from raw sensory info

• highly sensitive
• responsible for night vision

• mostly responsible for colors
• thought to work in pairs blk/wht, yell/blu, red/grn

transmits information from the retina to the brain

inner linning of eye that fills in what the blind spot cannot see

what we are aware of when we are awake and alert

the idea is that we can process some infrom from stimuli too weak to consciously recognize

minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus

• daydreams
• sleeping
• dreaming

• pulse slows, muscles relax, eyes move from side-to-side
• easily awakened

continue to go into a deeper level of sleep

short transition when delta waves appear

• Deepest level of sleep. tough to wake up from stage 4
• Helps with learning and memory
• heart rate, body temp, blood flow to brain is reduced

• very active sleep
• breathing, blood flow, to genitals increase
• muscle tone decreases
• most vivid dreaming takes place

surface

underneath

• dreamas a wish fulfilment
• sexual urges

dreams are a way of scanning old files w/ new info to see what should be kept

what you dream about is generally similar to what you were thinking about when your awake

• limbic system is very active
• auditory and visual systems also active
• areas of the frontal lobe relatively larger

breathing is interrupted (stop breathing)

• sleep attacks. just falls aleep at a moments notice
• begins in late adolecense/elderly

• wake up screaming and are difficult to comfort
• rememeber very little of dream

occurs during stage 4