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PSYCHOLOGY 101 EXAM 1 LATEST 2022 Define science of Psychology ✔✔Psychology is the scientific study of behaviour and mental process Empiricism ✔✔Belief that knowledge comes exclusively thr... ough the senses or through experience Pseudoscience ✔✔A fake or false science that makes claims based on little or no scientific evidence. Case Study ✔✔An in-depth examination of one individual, or a small number of individuals The Survey ✔✔An investigation of many cases in less depth by asking people to report opinions and behaviours Naturalistic observation ✔✔recording behaviour in its natural environments, and describing it in detail Experimentation ✔✔Purpose is to explore cause and effect by manipulating one or more factors, while holding other factors constant independent variable ✔✔The experimental factor that is manipulated; the variable whose effect is being studied (i.e if you are testing if breastfeeding kids has a difference or not in their intelligence later in life, the independent variable is breast milk and formula) Dependent Variable ✔✔The outcome factor; the variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable.Difference between Descriptive and correlational research methods ✔✔Descriptive research method is to observe and record behaviour. Correlational research method is to detect naturally occurring relationships . Nothing is manipulated in these two research methods. Biological Psychology ✔✔The basic assumption that everything psychological is biological Phrenology ✔✔A popular but wronged theory in the 1800's that claimed that bumps on the skull could reveal mental abilities and character traits. Sensory Neurons ✔✔Carry messages from the body's tissues and sensory organs inward to the brain and spinal cord for processing Motor Neurons ✔✔Carry Messages from the brain and out to the bodes tissues How Neuron's Communicate ✔✔When a neural impluse reaches the terminal of a an axon, it triggers release of neurotransmitters into the synaptic gap. Acetylcholine (ACH) ✔✔A neurotransmitter that enables learning and memory and also triggers muscle contraction Dopamine ✔✔a Neurotransmitter that influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion. Serotonin ✔✔a Neurotransmitter that Affects Mood, hunger, sleep and arousal Norepinephrine ✔✔a Neurotransmitter that helps control alertness and arousal GABA ✔✔A major inhibitory neurotransmitter Glutamate ✔✔A Major excitatory neurotransmitter involved in memoryThe two types of Major nervous systems ✔✔Peripheral nervous system and the Central Nervous system Somatic Nervous system ✔✔enables voluntary control of skeletal muscles Automatic Nervous System ✔✔controls our glands and the muscles of our internal organs The Sympathetic System ✔✔Expands energy, accelerates heart rate, raises blood pressure... The parasympathetic system ✔✔Conserves energy, decelerates heart rate, lowers blood pressure... The peripheral nervous system ✔✔The nervous system that contains, autonomic, somatic, sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. The central nervous system ✔✔comprises the spinal cord and brain The brain on average has how many neurones ✔✔40 billion Scientific method ✔✔A series of steps followed to solve problems done in order. 1. Formulate a testable hypothesis 2. Select the research method and design the study 3. Collect the data 4. Analy [Show More]

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