Neuroscience

UNIT 10/11 Personality- a person?s pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting Type A Personality Feel time pressure. Easily angered. Competitive and ambitious. Work hard and play hard. More prone to heart disease than rest of population. Type B Personality Relaxed and easygoing. But some people fit in neither type. Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality Fathered by Sigmund Freud. Idea of the Libido moving to different parts of our body. Stages of Psycho-Sexual Development Oral Anal Phallic (Oedipus Complex) Latent Genital Sigmund Freud had an iceberg theory for our personalities- ego, superego, and id Conscious- things we are aware of. Preconscious- things we can be aware of if we think of them. Unconscious- deep hidden reservoir that holds the true ?us?. All of our desires and fears.

UNIT 4: SENSATION AND PERCEPTION Sensation: your window to the world Sensation a process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus (or physical) energy and encode it as neural signals. Our sensory and perceptual processes work together to help us sort out complex processes Bottom-Up Processing analysis that begins with the sense receptors and works up to the brain?s integration of sensory information Top-Down Processing information processing guided by higher-level mental processes as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experience and expectations The Absolute Threshold minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time. It is the intensity at which we can detect a stimulus half of the time

UNIT 1 NOTES: Psychology: The study of our inner feelings and behaviors (our feelings do not always match our behaviors Psychology has Greek roots- ?psyche-? means ?mind? and is separate & distinct from the physical body. ?-ology? is a field of study, the ?study of the mind? History of Psychology: Although the science of psychology started in the late 1800?s, the concept has been around a lot longer. There was evidence of trephination (cutting holes into a skull to let evil spirits out) back in the Stone Age. Introspection: Started with William Wundt?s first psychological laboratory (1879) and his concept of introspection (structuralism). Then William James wrote The Principles of Psychology and discussed functionalism.