Ap Psychology Chapter 1 Summary

Audrey Nunez
21 July 2015
Psychology 2301
Dr. Alvarado
Chapter 1
1. What is psychology? Psychology is not only the study of behavior and of the mind. It is also the scientific study of the brain and of why we do certain things.
2. Correlation: correlation is the connection between two things. There is positive and negative correlation. It is important to remember that correlation is not always causation. Just because two things have, a connection does not mean one causes the other.
3. Naturalistic Research: is watching subjects in their natural habitat. There are some reasons where naturalistic research would not work so well. With naturalistic research, you can only observe the behavior but not the mental processes. In addition, you have to have consent of the subject. People tend to act differently when they

The main goals of psychology: Description, Explanation, Prediction, Change. The first goal of psychology is to describe the problem or issue. Next to explain the issue. It must first be understood. After explanation is Prediction, which usually involves an educated guess of, how the experiment will end. (hypothesis) the last goal is to improve the problem with what was learned in the experiment.
Chapter 2
1. Neurons: Neurons communicate to other neurons through the use of neurotransmitters across the synapse. The three parts of a neuron are dendrites, cell body, and axon.
2. Parts of the brain and their functions: the frontal brain with controls the higher mental processes. The midbrain, which controls emotions, motivations and the limbic system. The hindbrain which controls movement, and lower mental functions.
3. Split brain: when the corpus callosum is split it destroys the connection between the left and right side of the brain. The right side deals with face recognition, while the left side deals with perception.
4. The endocrine system: while neurons use neurotransmitters to carry messages the endocrine system uses hormones to carry