DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Wilhelm Wundt ANS✔✔ First scientific laboratory
Francis Bacon ANS✔✔ Created Scientific method
Biological Approach ANS✔✔ Personality is linked to genetics
Behavioral Approach ANS✔✔ Study of observable behavior - Blank slate
Cognitive Approach ANS✔✔ How the mind learns and thinks
Humanistic ANS✔✔ All people are inherently good
psychoanalytical ANS✔✔ actions are based on unconscious motivation
Structuralism ANS✔✔ Classification of the mind's structures
Functionalism ANS✔✔ William James - the "how" part of behavior
Nature vs. Nurture ANS✔✔ Whether or not biology plays a part in personality
Variable ANS✔✔ a changing part of the person
,constant ANS✔✔ a variable that always stays the same
dependent variable ANS✔✔ the variable the experiment is trying to get information
about
independent variable ANS✔✔ the variables that the experimenter controls
correlational research ANS✔✔ how much one variable changes in relation to each
other
clinical psychologist ANS✔✔ doctoral degree in psychology, cannot prescribe
medicine
psychiatrist ANS✔✔ a medical doctor with a degree in psychotherapy, can prescribe
drugs
ethics ANS✔✔ principals and standards of behavior including morals
Hypothalamus ANS✔✔ Part of the endocrine system
autonomic nervous system ANS✔✔ involuntary system
sympathetic nervous system ANS✔✔ arousing part of the system
parasympathetic nervous system ANS✔✔ calming part of the system
limbic system ANS✔✔ memory and emotion center
, Hippocampus ANS✔✔ Stores memories
cerebral cortex ANS✔✔ most developed and largest part of the brain
occipital lobe ANS✔✔ vision
temporal lobe ANS✔✔ hearing
frontal lobe ANS✔✔ voluntary muscles and intelligence
parietal lobe ANS✔✔ body sensations
Cerebrum ANS✔✔ the two large halves of the brain
cerebellum ANS✔✔ coordinates all movements and muscles
pons ANS✔✔ control breathing and heart rate
brain stem ANS✔✔ sends commands to all other parts of the body
thalamus ANS✔✔ main relay station for sensory signals
Hypothalamus ANS✔✔ Regulates internal temperature
Gregor Mendel ANS✔✔ Father of genetics
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