Psychology
Conflict stress
2 or more incompatible motivations
Antagonist drug
A drug that blocks a neurotransmitters effects
Evolutionary
Adaptions to the brain throughout time
Pons
Affect focus and sleep
Cerebellum
Allowing fine motor skills. Picking up pen, timing, movement, balance
Behaviorism
An approach to psychology that focuses on an individual's behavior
Biological
Approach to psychology that focuses on the brain and the nervous system
Structuralism
Argued that breaking down experience into its elemental parts offers the best way to understand thought and behavior
Frontal lobe
Associated with voluntary movement
Frustration stress
Blocked goal
Dualism
Body and soul are separate from physical self
Neurotransmitters
Communication between neurons occurs via chemical messengers called
Thomas Hobbes
Created materialism
BF skinner
Created radical behaviorism
John B Watson
Created the idea of behaviorism
Chemical
Dendrites receive messages from other neurons via ______ communication
Wundt
Devoloped the first laboratory devoted to psychological research, created structuralism
Behavioral medicine
Field dedicated to studying interactions of how people behave, biological influences, and environmental influences in order to improve health and well being
Mid brain
First response from sight and hearing
Structuralism
Focused on analyzing conciseness into basic elements
Facial feedback
Idea that facial expressions can influence emotions, as well as reflect them, is considered the _____ hypothesis
Association areas
Important for high order thinking
Case study
In depth investigation of an individual person would be
Case study
Involves an up close, in depth and detailed examination of a subject as well as its related contextual conditions
Parasympathetic nervous system
Is a subsystem within the autonomic system that calms the body
Amygdala
Is activated when we experience negative emotions, linked with emotional memories, plays key role in the emotion of fear
Sample group
Is the subset of the population chosen by the investigator for a study
Coping mechanisms
Learned helplessness, aggression, self indulgence, defense mechanism, constructive coping.
Occipital lobe
Lobe responsible for vision
Temporal lobe
Lobe where auditory stimuli is processed
Right hemisphere of brain
Non verbal processing; spatial, musical, visual, recognition
Longitudinal design
Observation that involves obtaining measures of the variables of interest in multiple waves over time
Chronic
On going stress
Hypothalamus
Part of the brain most closely linked to the control of sexual behavior, fighting, and fleeing
Axon
Part of the neuron that carriers information away from cell body toward other cells
Humanism
Perspective that emphasizes the study of the whole person
Paul Ekman
Physiologist that demonstrated the universality of emotions by studying members of an isolated New Guinea jungle tribe
Sympathetic
Prepares the body for action
Social stress
Readjustment to social community
Cognitive
Study of mind and mental function, including learning, memory, attention, perception
Acute
Sudden occurrence death
Biological
The study of physiological, genetic, and developmental of mechanisms of behavior in humans and non humans
Psychoanalytic
Theory of personality organization and the dynamics of personality development
Dendrite
Treelike fibers projecting from a neuron, which receive information and orient it towards the neurons cell body
Sympathetic and parasympathetic
Two components of the autonomic nervous system are the
Independent variable
Variable that is tested by the experimenter
Left hemisphere of brain
Verbal processing; language, speech, reading, writing
Autonomic nervous system
Works to monitor processes such as breathing, heart rate, and digestion.
James Lange
Emotion results from bad/happy vibes happening in the environment
Pressure stress
Expectations to behave in certain ways
Sigmund Freud
Founding father of psychodynamic approach and devolved psychoanalysis
Thalamus
Gets signals and makes sure those signals get sent to the right part of the brain
Medulla
Governs breathing and reflexes
Change stress
Having to adapt
Prefrontal cortex
Making decisions, planning
Hippocampus
Memory, not where memory is stored though
Materialism
Mind is a product of the brain, soul not involved
Axons
Myelin sheath covers ______ insulating them
Central nervous system
Nervous system comprised of the brain and spinal cord
Temporal, occipital, frontal, parietal
The four lobes of the brain are
Pyscology
Scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Synapses
Space between neurons; gap between neurons are referred to as synaptic gaps
Parietal lobe
Spatial location and motor control are the responsibility of what lobe
Synapse
The dendrite, synaptic gap, and the axon make up the
