Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sleep Deprivation, Temporal Lobe, Asthma

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Nick Skinner

Document Summary

Definition of psychology: 8% of psychological research are performed with animals, page 66-67 is why they study on animals, study animals finding to extrapolate to human conditions, the science of psychology. Were used to treat epilepsy by removing parts of the brain that were affected. Tremendous amount of research that"s tested on drugs: psycho pharmacology the affects of drugs on human behavior tested on birds (pigeons), various rodents (mat, rice, guinea pigs), primates (chimpanzee"s) Drug was developed to help combat rubella (german measles) for pregnant women, it also helped morning sickness. The babies were born with missing limbs or shortened limbs. Bright light (stimulus) into the eye which makes your pupils constrict or incoming chalk (stimulus) and response would be to move away because it"s just a shock: s --> organism --->r or the cognitive approach. R = f(s,o: behavioral perspective uses the s ---> r model.