Today’s Goals Mini review & catch up: Money & happiness Understand how religion is related to SWB Understand the ‘religion paradox’ Consider why religion (sometimes) predicts SWB Mini [...]
Today’s Goals Mini review: Happy people & change Consider a model of happiness change exercises Understand how money (income) is correlated with happiness Become familiar with the Gallup World [...]
Today’s Goals Mini review: Happiness Catch up on happy people Review history of ‘hedonic treadmill’ Understand current state of adaptation research Consider intentional happiness change Become familiar with exercises [...]
Today's Goals Mini Review: Emotions over time Wrap-up on affective forecasting Understand the components of subjective well-being Begin to understand the correlates and causes of subjective well-being Understand Ryff's [...]
A Brief (Recent) History Around 2011 Some high-profile fraud Multi-study paper on ESP in top journal Some attention to failed replication studies Longer history of 'gossip' 'False positive psychology' [...]
Positive Psychology Is Individual differences in resilience Character strengths, practices (daily) for better outcomes Flow (engagement, absorption) , maladaptive, creative, fulfilling, positive Self-acceptance, personal happiness Healthy positive affect [...]
LATERALIZATION OF FUNCTION Hrman brain is asymmetrical (left hemisphere is somewhat different from right) The Left and Right Hemispheres Left hemisphere of cerebral cortex connected to skin receptors [...]
LEARNING, MEMORY, AMNESIA AND BRAIN FUNCTIONING Localized Representations of Memory What happens in the brain drring learning and memory? Pavlov classical conditioning (pairing 2 stimrli changes the response [...]
TEMPERATURE REGULATION Homeostasis and Allostasis Cannon introduced homeostasis (temperature regulation and other biological processes that keep body variables within fixed range The range is so narrow that we refer [...]
BRAIN MECHANISMS OF MOVEMENT The Cerebral Cortex Direct electrical stimulation of primary motor cortex (precentral gyrus of the frontal cortex, just anterior to the central sulcus) elicits movement [...]
Audition Sound and the Ear Physics and Psychology of Sound Amplitude a sound wave-s intensity (lightning bolts) Loudness sensation related to amplitude but not identical to it [...]
General Principles of Perception Perceive an object when it emits/reflects energy that stimulates receptors that transmit information to your brain Rene Descartes believed that brain-s representation of a [...]
DEVELOPMEiT OF THE BRAIi Maturation of the Vertebrae Brain Human CNS begins to form when embryo is 2 weeks old; dorsal surface thickens, long thin lips ride, curl, form, [...]
STRUCTURE OF THE VERTEBRAE iERVOUS SYSTEM Terminology to Describe the iervous System CiS (central nervous system): brain and spinal cord PiS (peripheral nervous system): connect brain and spinal cord [...]
Cajal: anatomically demonstrated narrow gap separating neurons Sherrington: physiologically demonstrated communication between neuron and next differs from communication along single axon Synapse --> specialized gap between neurons The Properties [...]
Anatomy of ieurons and Glia Nervous system contains 2 kinds of cells: ieurons: receive info and transmit it to other cells Glia: many functions Brain is composed of individual [...]
Gottfried Leibniz “Why is there something rather than nothing” Mind-body problem (mind-brain problem) If universe is composed of matter and energy, how is there consciousness? How did [...]
Perspectives on Individual Differences in Intelligence -Hereditarian -Unitary Models -Multifaceted Models -Domain-Specific Models Hereditarian Theory of Intelligence -2 claims: 1) intelligence is unitary Pa reflection of an all-purpose system [...]
Environmental and Biological Influences of the Acquisition of Language Introduction -Language is universal in the species just because the capacity to learn it is innately given -Some capacity of [...]
Implicit Cultural Knowledge -Knowledge that is not always available to conscious thought Diatonic Scale Step -all whole steps Chromatic Scale Step -all semitones or half steps Infancy and Music [...]
