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Perspectives of Psychology ANS✔✔ Evolutionary: focuses on keeping species
alive, influences food preferences

Biological: stomach contractions (pang) sends signals to the brain making us
aware of our hunger

Biological and Cross- Cultural: body chemistry and environmental factors
influence when we are hunger and what we are hunger

Psychodynamic: Freudian (childhood), behaviors derive from internal
conflicts, motives, and unconscious forces

Humanistic: emphasis on person as whole

Positive: scientific study of strengths of an individual and communitites



Biopsychosocial approach ANS✔✔ an integrated approach that incorporates
biological, psychological and social cultural levels of analysis



Scientific method ANS✔✔ a self correcting process for evaluating ideas with
observation and analysis



The Central Tendencies ANS✔✔ mean, median, and mode are the three
measures of this that are used to describe what is normal for a set of data



Variability ANS✔✔ liability to vary or change



Standard Deviation ANS✔✔ a quantity calculated to indicate the extent of
deviation for a group as a whole

,Random Sample ANS✔✔ taking random people/things out of a group



Correlation ANS✔✔ mutual relationships, connection between two or more
variables



Case Study ANS✔✔ a descriptive technique in which one individual or group
is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles



Experimental Research ANS✔✔ a research method in which an investigator
manipulates one or more factors to observe the effect on some behavior or
mental process



Naturalistic Observation ANS✔✔ a descriptive technique of observing and
recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to
manipulate and control the situation



Hypothesis ANS✔✔ a testable prediction, often implied by a theory



Theory ANS✔✔ an explanation using an integrated set of principles that
organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events



Independent Variable ANS✔✔ in an experiment, the factor that is
manipulated; the variable whose effect is being studied



Dependent Variable ANS✔✔ in an experiment, the outcome that is
measured; the variable that may change when the independent variable is
manipulated

,Population ANS✔✔ all those in a group being studied, from which samples
may be drawn



Samples ANS✔✔ a small part or quantity intended to show what the whole is
like



Generalizability (Research) ANS✔✔ whatever happens in sample is what
would happen with all population, allows us to determine trends and pattern
behaviors, ways of thinking, learning



Hindsight Bias ANS✔✔ the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome,
that one would have foreseen it



Overconfidence ANS✔✔ we humans tend to think we know more than we do



Operational Definitions ANS✔✔ a carefully worded statement of the exact
procedures used in a research study



Neurotransmitters ANS✔✔ Serotonin: affects mood, hunger, sleep and
arousal

Dopamine: influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion

Norepinephrine: helps control alertness and arousal



Pituitary Gland ANS✔✔ influences hormonal releases by other glands



Endocrine System ANS✔✔ the body's "slow" chemical communication
system; a set of glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream

, Hormones ANS✔✔ chemical messengers that are manufactured by the
endocrine glands, travel through the bloodstream, and affect other tissues



Endorphins ANS✔✔ neurotransmitters that influence the perception of pain
or pleasure



All-or-None Principle ANS✔✔ neurons fire with the same intensity each time



Parts of Neuron ANS✔✔ Synapse: the junction between the axon tip of the
sending neuron and the dendrite or cell body of the receiving neuron

Dendrites: receives message from other cells

Axon: passes messages away from the cell body to other neurons, muscles,
or glands

Axon Terminal:

Vesicles:

Pre/Post Synaptic:

Neuron:



Reuptake ANS✔✔ a neurotransmitters re absorption by the sending neuron



Diffusion ANS✔✔ go out and diffuse



Degradation ANS✔✔ come in and break an enzyme



Central Nervous System ANS✔✔ consists of the brain and the spinal cord

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