PSYC 2000 : EXAM 1 REVIEW
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Chapter 1: early perspectives- free peanut butter and grape sandwiches, functionalism, psychoanalysis, behaviorism, gestalt psychology, structuralism, modern perspectives, cognitive, humanistic, biopsychosocial, behavioral, sociocultural, psychodynamic, evolutionary, psychologist, psychiatrist, psychiatric social worker, external. Internal: ecological, psychological professions, validity, sample, population, mean, median, mode (book, hypothesis vs. Theory: what makes a good theory, descriptive research methods, experimental research methods, correlations (trends: negative or positive, closer/farther from 1, variables in an experiment. Information gathering (and advantages and disadvantages for both) Office hours: friday 9:30-11:30 am: agonist, antagonist, reflexes and why they"re quick (message doesn"t go to brain, examples of neurotransmitters, acetylcholine, serotonin, gaba, glutamate, norepinephrine, dopamine: too little: parkinson"s. Too much: linked to schizophrenia: endorphins, hindbrain, brain structure, medulla, pons, reticular formation, cerebellum, midbrain. Office hours: friday 9:30-11:30 am: hippocampus, forebrain, lobes, cortex, corpus collosum, cerebrum, occipital, parietal, temporal, frontal, association areas, broca"s aphasia, wernicke"s aphasia, brain stimulation: know what the purpose of each is.
