The Best of Chapters 13,5

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The Best of Chapters 1-3,5

• Test Review

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The Goal of Psychology Empirical study of human
behavior and cognition.

• To describe..
• To understand .
• To predict.
• To control .

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Different Perspective.Different Questions.

• Depression
• Smoking
• Weight Control
• Low Productivity

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Psychology is the science of

• How the human mind works.
• How the mind enables people to adjust to their
  environment.
• Attempt to understand human behavior.

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Principles Nulluis En Verba

• Accuracy
• Objectivity
• Skepticism
• Open-Mindedness

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Research Methodology

• Descriptive
• Direct Observation
• Case Study
• Archival
• Survey

• Experimental
• Group Research
• Between
• Within
• Small N

Correlational Research
p. 32
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Neurons Structure

• Dendrites
• Cell Body
• Axon
• Myelin Sheath
• Nodes of Ranvier
• Terminal Buttons

p. 45
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Action Potential
All or None Response
Hyperpolarization
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Nervous System
N.S.
Peripheral
Central

• Central
• Brain Spinal Cord
• Peripheral
• Somatic
• Voluntary
• Autonomic
• Parasympathetic
• Sympathetic

Somatic
Autonomic
Sympathetic
ParaSymp
p. 51
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Cortex

• Parietal Lobe
• Temporal Lobe
• Occipital Lobe
• Frontal Lobe

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Whats the difference?

• Sensation
• Interaction between the body-environment
• the reception of physical stimulation.
• Use of specialized cells.

• Perception
• our interpretation
• active decoding process
• influenced by
• experience
• thoughts
• beliefs...

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Theories of Sensation

• Physical Stimuli
• Basic Function
• Current Theories

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Organizing Principles

• Figure-Ground
• Grouping
• Constancy
• Patterns
• Distance Cues

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Extra-Sensory Perception (ESP)

• Precognition
• Clairvoyance
• Telepathy
• Psychokinesis

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Classical Conditioning

• Pavlovs Little Albert
• Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS)
• Unconditioned Response (UCR)
• Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
• Conditioned Response (CR)

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Operant Conditioning
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Observational Learning

• 4 Key Factors
• Bobo Doll
• Cultural Training
• Define Identify the Behavior (correlation
  research)