PHILE125 Study Guide - Hermann Von Helmholtz, Thomas Robert Malthus, Association For Psychological Science

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Psychology as a career: american psychological association (apa, american psychological society (aps) began in 1988; changed to the association for. Neuroscience processes using animal models: physiological psychologists - underlying, cognitive neuroscientists - underlying, chronic jet-lag higher stress hormones. Brain damage decreased cognitive ability processes using neural imaging. Comparative psychology: using animal models, ethology, animal behaviour, phylogeny, adaptiveness, development of behaviour. Cognitive psychology: mental processes - perception, attention, reasoning, problem solving, learning, language, emotion, may use computer models. Each card has a number on one side, and a letter on the other. The stroop effect is the nding that naming the colour of the rst set of words is easier and quicker than the second. In psychology, the stroop effect is a demonstration of interference in the reaction time of a task. When the name of a color (e. g. , blue, Social psychology: behaviour in a group, also cultural psychology.