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What is Psychological Science?

by Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D.


Table of Contents


Readings By Section

Section 1: Psychological Science & Theory Development

Section 2: Altered States: Sleeping and Dreaming

Section 3: Studying the Nervous System

Section 4: The Structures and Functions of the Brain

Section 5: Associative Learning

Section 6: Remembering and Forgetting

Section 7: Social Psychology NOT READY

Glossary

References


Section 1: Psychological Science & Theory Development

Section 1-1: What is Psychology?
Section 1-2: What is Science?
Section 1-3: What is the Confirmation Bias?
Section 1-4: What is a Theory?
Section 1-5: What is a Good Scientific Theory?
Section 1-6: What is a Cause?

Section 2: Altered States: Sleeping and Dreaming

Section 2-1: What Is Consciousness?
Section 2-2: What is an Altered State of Consciousness?
Section 2-3: What Are Subjective Definitions?
Section 2-4: What Are Objective Definitions?
Section 2-5: What Is the Brain-Mind Theory?
Section 2-6: What Is Sleep?
Section 2-7: What Are Means & Variances?
Section 2-8: What Are Sleep Stages?
Section 2-9: What Changes In Sleep Occur Over Time?
Section 2-10: What Causes Sleep?

Section 2-11: What Causes Dreaming?
Section 2-12: What Causes REM Sleep?

Section 3: Studying the Nervous System

Section 3-1 : What is the Relation Between Mind & Body?
Section 3-2: What is the Nervous System?
Section 3-3:
What Are Case Studies?
Section 3-4: What Are Correlational Studies?
Section 3-5:
What Are Extraneous Variables?
Section 3-6: What Are Experimental Studies (Part 1)?
Section 3-7: What Are Experimental Studies (Part 2)?
Section 3-8: How Do We Study the Brain?

Section 4: The Structures and Functions of the Brain

Section 4-1: What Does the Brain Stem Do?
Section 4-2:
What Does the Limbic System Do?
Section 4-3: What Does the Cerebral Cortex Do?
Section 4-4: What Do the Occipital Lobes Do?
Section 4-5: What Do the Parietal Lobes Do?
Section 4-6: What Do the Temporal Lobes Do?
Section 4-7: What Do the Frontal Lobes Do?
Section 4-8: What is Working Memory?
Section 4-9: What is Brain Plasticity?
Section 4-10: What Does the Corpus Callosum Do?
Section 4-11: Who Is Split-Brain Surgery?
Section 4-11: What Do Neurons Do?

Section 5: Associative Learning

Section 5-1: How Might We Learn Abnormal Behaviors?
Section 5-2:
What is Experimental Psychology
Section 5-3:
What is Introspection?
Section 5-4: Why Did Behaviorists Reject Mental Causes?
Section 5-5: Why Did Behaviorists Reject Biological Causes?
Section 5-6: Why Did Behaviorists Reject Free Will?
Section 5-7: What is Classical Conditioning?
Section 5-8: Can Classical Conditioning Cause Phobias?
Section 5-9: What Happened to Little Albert?
Section 5-10: How Can Phobias Be Unlearned?
Section 5-11: What is Stimulus Generalization & Discrimination?
Section 5-12: What is Biological Preparedness?
Section 5-13: What is Instrumental Learning?
Section 5-14: What is Operant Conditioning?
Section 5-15: What is Reinforcement and Punishment?
Section 5-16: How Might Mental Disorders Be Conditioned?

Section 6: Remembering and Forgetting

Section 6-1: What Happened to Behaviorism?
Section 6-2:
What is the Cognitive Approach?
Section 6-3:
How Do Psychologists Study Memory?
Section 6-4: How Are Memories Formed and Retrieved?
Section 6-5: What is the Standard Model of Memory?
Section 6-6: What is Sensory Memory?
Section 6-7:What is Short-Term Memory?
Section 6-8:What is Working Memory?
Section 6-9: What is Elaborative Rehearsal?
Section 6-10: What is Long-Term Memory (Part 1)?
Section 6-11: What is Long-Term Memory (Part 2)?
Section 6-12: What Are Semantic and Episodic Memories?
Section 6-13:How Do We Remember Episodic Memories?
Section 6-14: Why Do We Forget Explicit Memories?
Section 6-15: What is the Psychodynamic Unconscious?
Section 6-16: What Are False Memories?

Section 7: Social Psychology

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Glossary

References


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