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Psychology - correct answer Scientific study of behavior and mental processes Wilhelm Wundt - correct answer Father of psych; his studies defined psych as a science William James - correct answer Father of psych in usa Sigmund Freud - correct answer Father of psychotherapy John Watson, BF Skinner - correct answer Behaviorist perspective Cognitive psych - correct answer Study of thoughts and emotion Nature vs Nurture - correct answer Genetics vs learned Darwinism - correct answer Reproduction advantage Psychology three main levels of analysis - correct answer Biological psychological social cultured Clinical psychologist - correct answer PhD studies assesses and treats troubled people Counseling psych - correct answer PhD helps cope with challenging crisis Psychiatrists - correct answer MD medical professionals use drugs as treatment Reasons Psych not viewed as science - correct answer Associates it with Freud No Nobel prize Pseudoscience is thought as psych Media mis interpret psych Think it's common sense Hindsight bias - correct answer Things that seemed obvious once invented Overconfidence - correct answer Overestimate there already known knowledge Preceding order in random events - correct answer Telepathically when you think of someone and then they call you Scientific method - correct answer Systematic procedures Case study - correct answer Pros: suggest intresting ideas Cons: usually does not apply to all people Naturalistic observation - correct answer Pros: can prove reveling insight Cons: each setting is unique Surveys - correct answer Snapshot in time, feelings Correlation - correct answer Pros: reveal insightful relationships Cons: can't prove causation only predict it Double blind procedure - correct answer Neither participant or researcher know members of each group Random assignment - correct answer Assigns people to experiential groups by chance Independent variables - correct answer Experimental factor "I change" Dependent variable - correct answer Outcome variable that may change to response Neurotransmitter - correct answer Chemical messengers travel across synapse Endorphins - correct answer Naturally occurring opiates Dopamine - correct answer It's what helps stay focus Natural sources of dopamine - correct answer Music, romantic love Autonomic nervous system - correct answer Second brain 90% serotonin produced by gut Neural networks - correct answer Neurons that fire together wire together Medulla - correct answer Responsible for breathing Thalamus - correct answer Sensory and motor images Cerebellum - correct answer Correlation, learning and memory Structures of the brain - correct answer Brainstem Medulla Thalamus Cerebellum Limbic system - correct answer Controls sex drive hunger and all carnal needs Amygdala - correct answer Controls emotion fear and aggression Hypothalamus - correct answer Pleasure center Hippocampus - correct answer Memory Cerebral cortex - correct answer Brains thinking crown Frontal lobes - correct answer Speaking muscles movement Parietal lobes - correct answer Navigation Occipital lobes - correct answer Visual areas Temporal lobes - correct answer Auditory processing Motor cortex - correct answer Arch shaped strip from ear to ear controls voluntary movement Brain plasticity - correct answer Brains ability to recognize herself Neurogeneis - correct answer We can create new brain cells Left brain - correct answer Logic and language Right side of brain - correct answer Perpetual spatial and non verbal Corpus callosum - correct answer Joins both halfs if brain Frontal lobes - correct answer Speaki