01:830:101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sympathetic Nervous System, Frontal Lobe, Myelin

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

Document Summary

Introduction: what are the behaviorist, psychoanalytic, evolutionary, biological, and cognitive perspectives, modern psychological perspectives, behavioral- conditioned to think a certain way from reinforcements and punishment, ex. How you were raised, learned throughout your life to be the way you are, learn from environment: psychoanalytic- (psychodynamic) unconscious dynamics within the individual, ex. Unintentional: evolutionary- natural selection of traits, ex. Survival, reproduction: biological- how physical systems (brain circuits) affect behavior, feelings, and thoughts, ex. Everything we feel is going on in the brain. Explains everything through the system of the brain. Research methods: cognitive- how people reason, remember, interpret. Interpretation can be different because we think of it differently. Opposite to behavior: what is an operational definition, statement about the procedure the researcher used to measure a variable, ex. Make sure random sampling occurs: figure out the why, problems with surveys: leading q"s- aren"t objective, you have to be careful with, naturalistic observation- describe and measure people/animal"s behavior systematically (where it working.