01:830:101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Excitatory Synapse, Myelin, Phineas Gage

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Keiko Brynildsen

Document Summary

Psychology is the study of thoughts, behavior, and emotion: what are each of the modern psychological perspectives, behavioral. Only observable events (stimulus-response relations) can be studied scientifically: psychoanalytic/psychodynamic. Unconscious motives and experiences in early childhood govern personality and mental disorders: evolutionary. Behavior patterns have evolved to solve adaptive problems: cognitive. Human behavior cannot be fully understood without examining how people acquire store, and process information: sociocultural. How social cultural forces shape individuals behavior. Different cultures believe behave differently: biological/neuroscientific. How physical systems (brain circuits) affect behavior, feelings, thoughts. Everything we do is traced back to something in the brain. He regarde psychology as a science and not biology and philosophy. Both an informal reflection process and formalized experimental approach informally examining our own internal thoughts and feelings. Testable prediction about the relationship b/w variables or conditions under which event will occur: what is an operational definition? statement about the procedures the researcher used a variable.