AP Psychology

Cocktail Party - Stanely millgram and Solomon arsch

8/29/2012 7:14:00 AM

Planned Behavior following impulses, all actions are planned and wont deviate from it. Actions are essentially predetermined. Stanley Millgram Born in 1933, died in 1984 Educated at Queens college (BA, MA) and Harvard (Ph.D.) Theories / Experiments Millgram Experiment 18 Shock Experiments faked shocks, had an actor to fake them. Ruled unethical because they caused too mutch stress on the students Small World experiment tracked friends by sending a package to people in Omaha telling them to forward it to a friend until it reached a certain person in Massachusetts. Cash money, cocktail parties, papercut, guap, ofwgkta, study of something, Behavior any action that an organism does.

Structuralism Willian Wundt (1900s) wanted to study the structure of the mind using technology Problems required verbal people, as flawed as memory Functionalism William James

Gestalt Psychology Max Wertheimer Psychonalysis Sigmund Freud

Perspectives Neuroscience, Biological, Evolutionary, Genetics, Psychodynamic, Behavioral, Cognitive, Humanistic, Social-Cultural. REINFORCEMENT (increasing the behavior) AND PUNISHMENT (decreasing the behavior) / POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE Neuroscience all behavior is a function of the brain. Evolutionary behavior has allowed species to survive. Genetics component of DNA that causes a certain protein that affects the brain in a certain way Behavioral relationship with behavior and previous action Cognitive- has to be conscious Social-Cultural what is acceptable based on cultural norms Psychodynamic reduce tension based upon whats happened in the past Humanistic strive for growth and development of potential THINKING means its cognitive ROLES society so socialcultural CHILDHOOD psychodynamic conditioning behavorial 2+4+3+4+2+2+4+4+4+3+4+5+2+4+3 Stability 4,2,4,1,4 = 15 Rationality v Irrationality 2,1,4,2,2 = 11 Nature v nurture 3,3,4,5,2 = 17

to learn something new you have to have learned something already critical thinking thinking that does not blindly accept conclusions - examines assumptions - discern values - evaluate evidence - consider both sides - assess conclusions hindsight bias- I knew that all along feeling confirmation bias people want to believe people who agree with them null hypothesis has no effect research strategies 1. case study what you see on medical shows. Deal with one person and one situation. 2. the survey look at many cases in less depth than a case study. Ask questions. Wording is important, assumes knowledge 3. naturalistic observation watching observing recording the behavior of organisms (jane gooddall) 4. correlational research looks for patterns between many surveys (flaw is correlation not causation) 5. experimentation mainuplates one or more factors to observe their effect on some behavior or mental process while controlling all other relevant factors correlations brain tries to make patterns like to confirm thoughts to make sense of the world histogram shows center, spread, skewness, presence of outliers and presence of modes population ideal (all cases in a group. Usually too large)

random sample (representative of the population, but not entire population) MUST BE REPLICABLE. The more you can repeat the study the more validated the outcome is. Operational definition - statement of procedures used to define research variables. How you measure the independent and dependent variables. How you enact the procedure. Experimental group group where you change the independent variable Control group no change Standardization

Neurotransmitters Dopamine movement, learning attention, emotion Seratonin depression mood hunger sleep rousal Norepinephrine alertness and arousal GABA eating and sleep disorders Acetylcholine learning and memory Endorphins natural opiates Dopamine cocaine, Ritalin, methylphediate, alcohol Seratonin hallucinogenics Norepineprhine betablockers Acetocolyne nicotine, black widow venom, boutchilm GABA alcohol, tranquilizers Glutamate PCP Endorphins opiates, opium, heroin, morphine, methadone Drug use cyclical problem Agonists mimick a neurotransmitter Antagonists inhibit by blocking neurotransmitters

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