Psych. Fall Semester Final Set

Psychology

• The weakest amount of a stimulus that can be sensed
• The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
• Drugs that slow the activity of the nervous system
• Both eyes are required to perceive depth

Behavior

• 1/3
• What is considered gender-appropriate behavior in one society may be viewed differently in another cultural setting
• Any action that can be observed or measured
• Children come to develop the behaviors that are associated with his/her own sex through gender identification

Cognitive Activities

• A study in which both participants and experimenters are unaware of who receives the treatment
• Repeated and have the same results
• Sweetness Sourness Saltiness Bitterness
• Mental processes, such as a dream or memory

Basic Research

• physical forms (hitting or shoving)
• selected by chance from the target population
• Increase activity of the nervous system
• Research that has no immediate application and is done for its own sake

Theory

• A statement that attempts to explain why things are the way they are and happen the way they do
• Increase activity of the nervous system
• Children come to develop the behaviors that are associated with his/her own sex through gender identification
• the specialization of the two sides of the brain

Principle

• Seem some colors but not others
• Gender differences are learned, not inborn
• The weakest amount of a stimulus that can be sensed
• A rule or law

Associationism

• vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
• Slurred speech, blurred vision, and impaired judgment
• Outline by Aristotle. How experiences often remind us of similar experiences in the past
• School of psychology that looks at the basic elements of conscious experience

Behaviorism

• increases the frequency of the behavior it follows when it is applied
• Fixed and oversimplified beliefs about the ways in which men and women out to behave
• The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
• School of psychology that defined psychology as the scientific study of observable behavior

Psychoanalysis

• vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
• that factor that researchers manipulate so that they can determine its effect
• Emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and internal conflicts in determining human behavior
• Most current activity of the day is what you dream about

Social-learning theory

• Fears can be taught through classical conditioning (White rats + loud noise = fear)
• Suggests that people can change their environments or create new ones
• emphasis on professional status, consideration, dependability, kindness, and fondness of children
• the sense that informs people about the position & motion of their bodies