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Chapters 1-5, 7-10

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psychology   scientific study of behavior and mental processes  
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empirical approach   standard for all psychological research, study conducted with careful observation and scientifically based research  
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pseudopsychology   hand reading, fortune telling, etc. face practices being set forth as psychological research  
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confirmation bias   pay attention to events that confirm our beliefs and ignore those that don't  
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experimental psychologists   do research on basic processes  
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teachers of psychology   teach psychology  
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applied psychology   use knowledge developed by experimental psychologists and use it to solve human problems  
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psychology's history starts with   ancient greek philosophers. socrates questioned human behavior, taught Plato who went on quest for knowledge and understanding-quest for perfect knowledge. first to delve into areas of cognition  
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after plato came   aristotle who developed theories on perception, cognition, memory, problem solving, and thics  
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rene descartes   asserted that human sensation and behavior result of activity of the nervous system  
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wundt   first to establish psychological laboratory. came up with strucuturalism.  
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structuralism   basic components of human mind. was too simple to be accredited  
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introspection   technique of structuralism that used observation and description of senses to tell about mind  
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william james   father of psychology. came up with functionalism  
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functionalism   mind has mental processes which can be understood through their functions. was more practical than structuralism  
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gestalt   perceptual wholes, how our sensations form perceptual wholes. max weirtheimer  
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john watson and b.f. skinner   leader of behavioral movement  
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behaviorism   study of only the behavior and how the environment affects it.  
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psychoanalysis and freud   unconscious mind--the conflicts, desires, needs  
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perspectives of psychology   biological, evolutionary, cognitive, humanistic, social-cultural, trait, developmental, behavioral  
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biological perceptive   complec biological systems that repson to both hereditary and environmental influences. brain structures and processes-neuroscience.  
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evolutionary   behaviors developed and adapted over time. genetic makeup and ancestry  
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developmental   predictable patterns of change throughout lifetime. interaction between nature and nurture  
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cognitive   information-processing. mental interpretation and experiences. thoughts, expectations, memories, perceptions. cognitive neuroscience is connection between brain's structures and it's mental processes  
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psychodynamic   dark forces of unconscious mind. unconscious needs, conflicts, desires. repressed memories and childhood experiences  
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humanistic   hippy. human growth and potential. positive. influence of self-concept, perceptions, interpersonal relationships, and need for potential growth  
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behavioral   behaviors and learning. stimulus activated by environment as punishment or reward  
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socialcultural   people are social beings, influenced by culture, social norms and expectations, and social learnings  
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trait   individual characteristics make up our individual differences. unique combo of traits  
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scientific method   process of putting ideas to the test  
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scientific method process   hypothesis, controlled test, data, analyze, publish( criticize, replicate)  
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empirical investigation   collecting of objective info by making careful measurements based on direct experience  
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theory   set of testable explanation explanations  
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operational definitions   specific descriptions and explanations of concepts and conditions of experiment  
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IV and DV   IV: independent, the thing that changes and you control in test. DV: the thing being tested and affected by IV  
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random presentation   chance alone determines order of presentation  
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significant difference   are results true or just due to likely chance. results are true when probability that it might due to chance is less then .05  
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population   the pool from which you choose people to test  
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sample   small group of population that researchers test on  
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representative sample   representative distribution of overall population  
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random sample   each person has equal chancee of being selected for experiment  
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stratified   sample which subgroups are represented proportionally  
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extraneous variable   a variable that experimenter cannot control but that can affect the results of the experiment.  
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participant variable   elated to how a variable may influence an individual's characteristics thereby changing how he/she feels.  
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situational   things in the environment that can influence indvidual's response to experiment  
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confounding variable   variable that directly affects independent variable. may be extraneous  
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ex post facto   subjects are chosen based on pre-existing conditions  
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correlational   relationship between two variables. does not define causation  
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coefficient of correlation   degree and relationship between variables. -1 to 1. negative means indirect and positive means direct and 0 means no relation  
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survey   question-answer based research method  
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naturalistic observation   subject studied in natural environment  
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longitudinal study   one type of subject followed and observed for an extended period of time. same group, more accurate, study developmental trends  
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cross-sectional   representative cross section of the population is tested or surveyed during a specific time. provide data for data with smaller group. not as accuarte  
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cohort sequential study   cross section of population, and each cohort is followed and observed for short period of time  
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personal bias   bias to individual's beliefs, preferences, assumptions, or prejudices  
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expectancy bias   observers expect and look for expected results in investigation  
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double blind study   both the participants and the experimenters are clueless about who has the independent variable  
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bias blind spot   think other people are susceptible to bias but they arent themselves  
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mental set   tendency to solve problems based on previous methods of past and similiar problems  
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congitive dissonance   when a person believes on thing but acts a different way  
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fairness bias   sense of fariness takes precedence over rational self-interest. shows how people may be ablee to cooperate  
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hindsight bias   "i knew it all along". tendency to overestimate one's ability to have predicted an event once the outcome is known  
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institutional review board   committee of an institution where research is conducted and reviewed for ethics and methodology  
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institutional animal care and use committee   same as IRB but for animals  
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deception   participants have right to know what is going to happen with them without compromising results of study  
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APA's Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Codes of Conduct   must be followed to ensure ethics  
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debrief   participants must be checked to make sure no long term illnesses happen  
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case history   obtains unique and personal information about individual  
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psychological test   standardized test that measure psychological qualities within individual  
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lab observation   observations on artifical environment set forth by experimenter  
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frequency distributions   shows how frequent each various score is in a set of data  
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histogram   bar graph that displayed frequence distribution  
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descriptive statistics   numbers that describe main characteristics od data: mean, median, mode  
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measures of central tendencies   mean, median, mode  
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mean   can be influenced by extreme results  
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median   separate upper half and lower half with middle score. not influenced by extreme results  
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mode   most occuring result  
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range   difference between highest and lowest values in frequence distribution  
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normal distrubtion   bell shaped curve describing spread of characteristics throughout population  
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binet simon approach   first intelligence test. scores were representatives of current performance not innate intelligence. helped identify the gifted, from the normal, from the mentally retarded. alfred binet and theodore simon  
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mental age   average age at which individual achieves a certain score  
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chronological age   number of years since indiviual's birth  
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stanford binet   american test of intellegence.  
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intelligence quotient (IQ)   MA/CA X 100. have to grade on curve because it makes adults look super smart and kids look mentally retarded  
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psychometrics   field of mental measurements  
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charles spearman   general intelligence. g factor, general intellgience underlying mental activity  
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cattell   broke intelligence into two factors crystallized and fluid intelligence.  
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crystallized   knowledge person has acquired and the ability to access that knowledge  
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fluid   ability to see complex relationships and solve problems  
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stern berg   triacrchic theory. the three intelligences  
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practical   ability to cope with people and events in environment. street smart  
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analystical intelligence   ability to analyze and solve problems  
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creative intelligence   ability to develop new ideas and relationships  
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gardner   multiple intelligences-linguistic, logical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal.  
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is intelligence considered the same all across the board to cultures   nope, different cultures have different views of intelllignece  
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biopsychology   studies the interaction of biology, behavior, and mental processes  
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neuroscience   focuses on the brain and its role in psychological processes  
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neuron   cell specialized to receive and transmit information to other cells in the body.  
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what are the three types of neurons   sensory, motor, and interneurons  
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sensory neuron are also called   afferent neurons  
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sensory neurons are   neurons that carry messages from sense receptors from the body to the central nervous system  
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motor neurons are also called   efferent neurons  
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motor neurons are   nerve cells that carry messages away from central nervous system toward the muscles and glands  
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dendrites   a branched fiber that extends outward from the the main cell body and carries information into the neurons  
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soma   part of a cell containing the nucleus which includes the chromosomes. the cell body  
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axon   an extended fiber conducts information from the soma to the terminal buttons information travels along the axon in the form of an electric charge  
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resting potential   the electrical charge of the axon in its inactive state  
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active potential   nerve impulse caused by a change in the electrical charge across the cell membrane of the axon. when the neuron fires. this charge travels down the axon and causes neurotransmitters to be released  
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synapse   the gap that serves as a communication link between neurons, synapses also occur between neurons and the muscles or glands they serve  
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terminal button   structures at the end of the axon, which contain neurotransmitters that carry the neuron's message into synapse  
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synaptic transmission   relaying of info across the synapse by means of chemical neurotransmitter  
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how do neurons work   the soma gets aroused by messages received by dendrites. soma creates own message and passes across axon to the terminal buttons which release vesicles filled with neurotransmitters that cross synapse and arrive at the receptor sites of the receiving cell  
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all or none principle   refers to the fact that the action potential in the axon occurs either full blown or not at all. neuron either fires or doesnt  
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interneurons   nerve cell that relays messages between nerve cells, particularly between those of the brain and spinal cord  
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what are inhibitory and excitatory messages   inhibitory tell the nerve cell to not fire, and excitatory messages tells the nerve cell to fire. the weight or amount of each determines whether or not the nerve cell fires  
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neurotransmitters   chemical messengers that relay neural messages across synapse  
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dopamine   controls voluntary movements, sensations of pleasure and reward. problems with may lead to schizophrenia and parkinson's disease  
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seotonin   regulates sleep, dreams, mood, pain, aggression, appetite, and sexual behavior. problems with lead to depression, OCD, and other anxiety disorders  
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norepinephrine   controls moods and arousal, problems with cause depression  
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acetylcholine   regulates memory, problems with results may lead to alzeheimer's  
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gaba   inhibitory neurotransmitter, regulates anxiety. problems with can lead to anxiety disorders  
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glutamate   top excitory neurotransmitter. learning and memory. problems can lead to brain damage  
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endorphins   all or nothing responses. fight or flight responses. pleasure, sensation, and control of pain. regulation of eating behaviors  
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plasticity   nervous system's ability to adapt or change as the result of experience. helps nervous system adapt to physical damage  
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glial cells form the mylein sheath which   a fatty insulation around the axon that protects the cell and speeds the conduction of the impulses along the axon. the thicker the sheath the faster the impulses  
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nervous system   entire network of neurons in the body, including the central and peripheral nervous system  
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central nervous system CNS   brain and the spinal cord. body's command central. spinal cord is connection between brain and the rest of the nervous system. contains interneurons  
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peripheral nervous system PNS   contains autonomic and somatic nervous systems. is the entire nervous system outside brain and spinal cord. contains the motor and sensory neurons. messages between brain and sense organs and muscles and everything else  
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somatic nervous system   division of PNS that carries sensory information to central nervous system and sends voluntary messages to body's skeletal muscles. VOLUNTARY, CONSCIOUS PROCESS muscle movement  
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autonomic nervous system   portion of PNS that sends communication between the central nervous system and internal organs and glands. INVOLUNTARY BY YOU, heartbeat, digestion  
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sympathetic division   part of the autonomic nervous system that alerts the body for stressful and emergency situations  
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parasympathetic division   part of autonomic system that monitors body's function to calm it down after arousal by sympathetic division.  
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what is the somatic nervous system divided into   sensory nervous system (afferent neurons) and motor nervous (efferent neurons)  
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endocrine system   hormone system. body's chemical messenger system. endocrine, pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenals, pancreas, ovaries, and testes  
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hormones   chemical messenger used by the endocrine system  
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agonist   drug or chemical that enhances or mimics the effects of neurotransmitters  
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antagonist   drug or other chemical that inhibits the effects of neurotransmitters  
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brain stem   most primitive of the brain's major 3 layers. includes medulla, pons, and reticular formation . sets brain's general alertness level and warning system  
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medulla   brain stem structure. controls breathing and heart rate. sensory and motor pathways connecting brain to body  
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pons   bran stem structure. regulates brain actibity during sleep and dreaming.  
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reticular formation   core of the brain stem. arouses the cortex to keep the brain alert and attentive to new stimulation  
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thalamus   brain stem structure. atop of it. relay station of messages between brain and brain stem and body  
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cerebellum   structure of the brain on top of brain stem. responsible for coordinated movement  
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limbic system   middle layer of brain, involved in emotion, memory. has hippocampus, amygdala, hypothalamus  
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hippocampus   limbic system structure. involved with memory  
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amygdala   limbic system structure. involved in emotions  
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hypothalamus   limbic system structure. manages body's internal state.  
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cerebral cortex   gray matter of brain. higher level thinking and complex thinking  
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three parts of the brain   brain stem, cerebrum, limbic system  
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frontal lobe   movement and thinking  
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motor cortex   voluntary movement  
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parietal lobe   touch sensation and perceiving spatial relationship  
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occipital lobw   back of the brain, contains visual cortex  
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visual cortex   visual processing  
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temporal loves   long term memory  
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cerebral dominance   the tendency of each part of the brain's hemisphere to control certain and different functions  
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right bbrain   negative emotions. simple commands. spatial and auditory and visual memories.  
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left brain   positive emotions. control of muscles and speech. spontaneous speaking and writing. understanding speech and writing  
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corpus callosum   band of nerve cells that connects the two cerebral hemispheres  
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sensation   process by which stimulation of a sensory receptor produces neural impulses that the brain interprets as sensory images. just neural impulse that create a sense nothing more. has to do with changing stimuli  
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perception   meaning and interpretation of sensation.  
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transduction   transformation of one form of energy into another. transformation fo stimulus information into nerve signals by the sense organs.  
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sensory adaptation   loss of responsiveness in receptors cells after stimulation has remained unchanged for a while.  
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absolute threshold   amount of stimulation necessary for a stimulus to be detected.  
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difference threshold   smallest amount by which a stimulus can be changed for the difference to be noted  
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just noticeable difference   same as difference threshold  
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weber's law   size of the JND is proportional to the intensity of the stimulus. if something is loud, it has to become extra loud for you to notice. if something is soft it has to become extra soft for you to notice.  
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signal detection theory   sensation is a judgement the sensory system makes about incoming stimulation  
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retina   thin light sensitive layer at the back of the eyeball. retina contains millions of photoreceptors and other nerve cells  
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photoreceptors   light sensitive cells in the retina that connvert light energy to neural impulses.  
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rods   photoreceptros that are especially sensitive to dime light but not color  
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cones   photoreceptros that are especially sensitive to color and not dim light  
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fovea   tiny area of sharpest vision in the retina  
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optic nerve   bundle of neurons that carries visual information from retina to the brain  
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blind spot   point where the optic nerve exits the eye and where tthere are no photoreceptors  
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what are the sensations of the vision   color, brightness, pattern,s motion, textures,  
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what is the most important sese   vision.  
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visual capture   refers to how vision takes over from the other senses and overrides all other (decider in chief)  
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color blindness   color deficiency. inability to distinguish between colors. confuse red and green or yellow and blue  
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nearsightedness myopia   can see object close but not objects far away. caused by enlongated eyeball or overly curved cornea.  
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farsightedness   can see distant but not close objects. to short eyeball or not sufficienntly curved  
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how does sound word   airborne sound waves are relayed to inner ear. the cochlea focuses on the bivrations on the basilar membrane. the basilar membrane does transduction. neural messages are sent to audotiory cortex  
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tympanic membrane   eardrum  
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cochlea   primary organ of hearing, coiled tube in the inner ear, where sound waves are transduced into nerve messages  
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basilar membrane   thins strip of tissue sensitive to vibration in the cochlea. transduction happens here  
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sensation of sound   pitch, loudness, tmibber  
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sensorineural deafness   nerve deafness. deficit in body's ability to transmit impulses from cochlea to the brain  
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vestibular senses   the sense of body's orientation with respect to gravity. vestibular sense is closely associated with the inner ear  
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kinesthetic sense   sense of body position and movement of body parts relative to each other  
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olfaction   sense of smell  
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pheromones   chemical signal released by organisms to communicate with other members of the same species  
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how does smell work   volatile substances. odors interact with receptor proteins inside protein and the stimulated nerve cells convey information to brain's olfactory bulb. does not go through thalamus  
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gustation   sense of taste. soluble substances  
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sensations of taste   sweet sour salty bitter  
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skin senses   sensory systems for processing touch, warmth, cold, texture, and pain  
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gate control theory   neural gate that in some circumstances block incoming pain signals. pain depends on relative amount of traffic in two different pathways which carry into from sensory organs to teh brain. fast fiberss send sensory information to brain. slow fibers lag  
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why is touch a priority sense   essential for growth  
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where does pain exist   in our brain  
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percept   meaningful product of perception, often an image that has been associated with concepts, memories of events, emotions, and motives  
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bottom up processing   when sensations happen first and the brain interprets them  
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top down processing   when there is cognitive image or sensation that the brain looks for  
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perceptual constancies   ability to recognize the same object as remaining constant under different conditions,  
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consciousness   awareness of outside world and one's own mental processes thoughts feelings and perception. subjective. private. every-changing. self-reflective. keeps brain from overloading  
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neural basis of consciousness   no single place where it resides. collection of largely separate but interactive infoprocessing model. by-product of the brain  
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preconscious   mental events outside of awareness that can be retrieved  
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unconscious   mental events kept out of the consciousness but that can affect behavior.  
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emotional uncnosciousness   emphasis that emotinoal and motivational processes operate unconsciously and influence behavior  
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altered states of consciousnes   sleep, hyponosis, drug abus, meditation  
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sleep   state of consciousness. no knowledge of being in it until we wake up. slow breathing and irregular brain waives  
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sleep is regulated by   process of falling asleep is by forebrain. rem is regulated by brain stem. limbic system are highly active druing rem  
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restoration model   sleep recharges our run down bodies and allows us to recover physical and menta fatigue  
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evolutionary model   sleep increases species chances of survival in relation to its environmental demands  
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stage 1 of sleep.   theta waves. images of hallucination (sensory experiences occur without sensory stimuli). have senation of floating or falling  
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stage 2 of sleep   spindles- rapid rhythmic brainwave activity. officially asleep. 20 minute duration. sleep talking can occur here  
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stage 3 and 4   delta waves. deep sleep. children wet beds, adults sleep walk. 40-45 minutes. heart and breathing rate slow.  
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when stage 4 ends   the elctrical activity of the brain increases and the sleeper climbs back up through the stages in reverse order. 123432 then REM  
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rem sleep   nearly an hour after you fall asleep. 10 minutes intially then more and more throughout night  
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active sleep (REM)   heart rate rises, breathing rapid, every 30 seconds eyes move rapidly. motor cortex still active. brani stem blocks messages from body so essentially paralyzed. not easily awakened.  
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sleep cycles occur every   90 minutes. you are in rem 20-25 percent of the night  
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insomnia   persistent problems in falling or staying asleep over an extended period of time  
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dreams   hallucinations of the mind. can occur in any stage but mostly in REM \. some fake while others confused with reality  
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nightmares   distrubing dreams that cause dreamer to wake up feeling anxious and or frigthtened  
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night terror   sleep disorder. mostly kids. screaming, thrashing around. doublying of heart and breahting. occurs in stage 4  
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lucid dreams   when you realizes you are dreaming  
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recurring dreams   dreams that repeat themselsves with little variation in story or theme. unconsciuos conflict that needs to be resolved  
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prophetic dreams   seem to tell the future. dreaming mind pieces things together that we normally overlook to create a dream  
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freuds things to dreams   to guard sleep to fulfill wishes of the unconsious.  
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latent content   the actual unconscious desires disguised and hidden in dreams  
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manifest content   surgace story that dreamer report  
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dream work   latent turns to manifest  
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alfred adler   tools we use to solve our problems  
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activation synthesis theory   no meaning. by-product of rem neural activity.brain is bombarded with stuff and so makes sense of them in works of dreams  
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activation componenet   brain bombarded with neural activity  
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synthesis componenet   brain tries to make sense of bombarded stuff  
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hyponisis   an induced state of awareness, usually characterized by heightened suggestibility, deep relaxation, and highly focuses attentino  
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meditation   a state of consciousness often indueced by focusing on a reptitive behavior, assuming certain body positinos, and minimizing external stimulation.  
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psychoactive drugs   chemicals that affect mental processes and behavior by their effects on the brain  
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agonistic drugs   increase activity of neurotransmitters  
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antagonistic drugs   decreases activity of neurotransmitters  
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biological factor that affect drugs   potnetial genetic role. influence sensitivity and tolerance to drugs  
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psychological factors that affect drugs   have difficulty adjusting to life's demands and so vulnerable to drug addictino  
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environmental factors that affect drugs   physical and social setting. behaviors of others  
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hallucinogens.   LSD and marijuana. distort perception and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory stimuli. generally psychological dependence unknown physical dependence  
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depressants   alcohol, heroin, barbiturates. calm neural activity and slow body functions. moderate to high physical and psychological dependence  
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stimulants   cocaine, nicotine, ecstacy. excite neural activity and arouse body functinos. high physical and psychological dependence  
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opiates   heroin, morphine. highly addictive. produce profound sense of wel being and have strong relieiving properties  
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physical dependence   body adjusts and comes to need the drug for everyday functioning  
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psychological dependence   desire to obtain or use a drug even with no physical dependence  
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tolerance   reduced effectiveness of a drug after repeated use  
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addiction   conditino in which a person continues to use a drug despites its adverse effects.  
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withdrawal   a pattern of uncomfortabl or painful physical symptoms and cravings due to decreased amount or eliminated drug  
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whats the practical use of hypnosis   pain reliever.  
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senations   brain niterprets sensory stimuli as vision, sound, taste, feel  
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perception   gives meaning to sensation  
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weber's law   higher the intensity of the stimuli the higher the just noticeable difference  
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signal detection theory   how we detect signal and make a judgement of the sensation  
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bottom up   stimulation first and then brain interprets and understands it  
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top down   brain has certain expectation, memories, and other cognitive factors linked to the sensation it is seeking  
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gestalt   much of perception is shaped by innate factors built in the brain. patterns fo whole  
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figure ground   figure is the part of the stimuli that demands attention while ground is the background  
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closure   tendency to fill in gaps in figures and see complete figures  
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law of simliarity   tend to group simliar objects together in perception  
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law of proximity   tend to group close objects together  
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law of continuity   we prefer connected and continuous figures  
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law of common fate   tend to group simliar objects that share common motion or destination ( a school of fish)  
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law of pragnanz   simplest organization requires least cognitive effort. we tend to see fully developed concepts  
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perceptual set   readiness to detect a particular stimulus in a given context as when a person who is afraid interprets an unfamiliar sound as a threat  
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how does the sleep cycle pattern go   stage 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, REM, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, REM, 2, 3, 2, REM, 2, 3, 2, REM, 2, REM, awake  
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sleep apnea   a respiratory disorder in which the person intermittently stop breathing many times while asleep  
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memory   a system that encodes, stores, and retrieves information  
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how is memory related to a cognitive system   memory works closely with perceptual systems, it takes information from the senses and selectively converts it into meaningful patterns that can be stored and access later when needed  
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what is the process of memory referred to   the information processing model  
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information processing model   cognitive understanding of memory, emphasizing how info is changed when it is encoded, stored, and retrieved  
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encoding   select some stimulus from among a vast array of sensory information that assaults you. find some pattern with it and then tag it  
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storage   retention of encoded material over time  
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retrieval   properly encoded info, takes only a second to retrieve with good cues. retrieval doesn't always word, for example if memory wasn't encoded right or stored in the wrong section  
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process of memory   sensory, working, long-term  
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sensory memory   holds sensory information for split seconds to see if it is important enough to move it onto to working memory  
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working memory   takes information selectively from sensory memory and connects it with items already in long term storage. it is essentially work table that adds perception to material being consciously payed attention to  
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long term memory   final stage of processing, receives information from working memory and stores it  
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storage capacity of the stages types of memories   sensory- 12-16 items. working- 7+ chunks. long term- unlimited  
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duration of the three stages of memories   sensory- less than 1/2 second. working- 20-30 seconds. long term- unlimited  
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structures of the three stages of memories   sensory- different parts of the brain due to dependence on senses. working- central executive, phonological loop, visuospatial. long term- procedural and declarative.  
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biological basis for the three stages of memory   sensory-separate sensory pathways. working memory- hippocampus, frontal lobe, and temporal lobe. long term-cerebral cortex.  
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chunking   organization pieces of information into smaller number of meaningful units (or chunks). a process that frees up space in working memory  
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sensory register   a register holding different kind of sensory information  
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what senses do: iconic, echoic, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory sensory memory register?   iconic- visual. echoic- auditory. tactile- tough. olfactory- smell. gustatory- taste.  
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automatic processing   unconscious encoding  
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effortful processing   encoding that requires attention and consciou effort.  
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hierarchies   arrange concepts (mental representations of relating things) from more general to specific  
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maintenance rehearsal   working memory process in which information is merely repeated or reviewed to keep it from fading while in working memory.  
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elaborative rehearsal   a working memory process in which information is actively reviewed and related to information already in long term memory  
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eeidetic imagery   an especially clear and persistent form of memory that is quite rare; sometimes known as a "photographic" memory  
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structural encoding   remembering physical structures of stimuli  
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acoustic (phonemic) encoding   remembering by emphasizing the sound of the stimuli  
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visual codes   remembering by emphasizing the visual imagery presented  
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semantic codes   remembering by emphasizing the meaning of the stimuli  
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levels of processing theory   the explanation for the fact that information that is more thoroughly connected to meaningful items in long term memory will be remembered better  
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procedural memory   type of long term memory that stores memories of things are done  
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declarative memory   type of long term memory that is for information that we can describe-the facts we know or the experiences we remember  
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declarative memory has what other types of memory within it   semantic and episodic  
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semantic memory   memory that stores general knowledge and concepts  
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episodic memory   memory that stores personal events or "episodes"  
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anterograde amnesia   the inability to form memories of new information  
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retrograde amnesia   inability to remember information previously stored in memory  
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consolidation   process by which short term memories are changed to long term memories over a period of time  
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implicit memory   a memory that was deliberately learned or of which you have no conscious awareness  
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explicity memory   memory that has been processed with attention and can be consciously recalled  
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retrieval cues   stimuli that are used to bring a memory to consciousness or into behavior  
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priming   a technique for cuing implicit memories by providing cues that stimulate a memory without awareness of the connection between the cue and the retrieved memory  
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recall   a retrieval method in which one must reproduce previously presented information  
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recognition   a retrieval method in which one must identify present stimuli as having been previously presented  
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encoding specificity principle   the doctrine that memory is encoded and stored with specific cues related to the context in which it was formed. the more closely the retrieval cues match the form in which the information was encoded, the better it will be remembered  
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mood-congruent memory   a memory process that selectively retrieves memories that match (are congruent with) one's mood  
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Tip of the Tongue phenomenon   the inability to recall a word, while knowing that it is in memory.  
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transience   the impermanence of a long term memory. it is based on the idea that long term memories gradually fade in strength over time  
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forgetting curve   a graph plotting the amount of retention and forgetting over time for a certain batch of material. typical curve is steep at first, becoming flatter as time goes one  
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absent mindedness   forgetting caused by lapse in attention  
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blocking   forgetting that occurs when an item in memory cannot be accessed or retrieved  
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blocking is caused by   interference  
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proactive interference   a cause of forgetting by which previously stored information prevents learning and remembering new information  
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retroactive interference   a cause of forgetting by which newly learned information prevents retrieval of previously stored material  
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what can cause interference   the greater the similarity between two sets of material to be learned the greater the interference between them (learning french and spanish. meaningless material is more vulnerable to interference than meaningful material. and emotional material.  
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serial position effect   a form of interference related to the sequence in which information is represented. generally items in the middle of the sequence are less well remembered than items presented first or last.  
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mnemonics   techniques for improving memory, especially by making connections between new material and information already in long term memory  
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innateness theory of language   children acquire language not merely by imitating but also by following an inborn program of steps to acquire the vocab and grammar of the language in their environment  
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language acquisition device   a biologically organized mental structure in the brain that facilitates the learning of language because it is innately programmed with some of the fundamental rules of grammar  
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babbling stage   early stage of language development, occurring between 3-4 months, when children make nonsensical unrelated sounds  
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One-word Stage   the stage where children mainly speak in one word  
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Two-word Stage   at approximately around the age of 2, children start speaking in two word sentences.  
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Syntax   the rules specify how words should be ordered in a sentence in order to give that sentence meaning  
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Semantics   branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning  
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Phoneme   smallest phonetic unit in a language that is capable of conveying a distinction in meaning  
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Telegraphic Speech   speech that sounds like a telegram, has words arranged in an order that makes sense and contains almost all nouns and verbs  
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Linguistic Determinism   the idea that language shapes cognition and thought.  
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Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis   a hypothesis that language determines our character and the way we think. we are shaped by the language around us and therefore so is our character  
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concepts   mental representations of categories of tiems or ideas, based on experience  
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schema   a knowledge cluster or general conceptual framework that provides expectations about topics, events, objects, people, and situations in one's life  
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script   a cluster of knowledge about sequence of events and actions expected to occur in particular settings  
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algorithms   problem solving procedures or formulas that guarantee a correct outcome, if correctly applied  
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heuristics   cognitive strategies of rules of thumb used as shortcuts to solve complex mental tasks. do not guarantee a correct solution  
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mental set   the tendency to respond to anew problem in the manner used for previous problem  
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functional fixedness   the inability to perceive a new use for an object associated with a different purpose; a form of mental set  
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hindisght bias   the tendency after learning about an event to second guess or believe that one could have predicted the event in advance  
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anchoring bias   a faulty heuristic caused by basing an estimate on completely unrelated quantity  
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representativeness bias   a faulty heuristic strategy based on the presumption that once people or events are categorized, they share all the features of other members in that category  
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convergent thinking   style of thought that attempts to consider all available information and arrive at the single best possible answer.  
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divergent thinking   thinking that moves away in diverging direction so as to involve a variety of aspects and which sometimes lead to new ideas and concepts  
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representative heuristics   a cognitive bias in which an individual categorizes a situation based on pattern of previous experiences or beliefs about the scenario  
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availability heuristics   how easily something that you’ve seen or heard can be accessed in your memory. the sooner you've seen/heard something the sooner you remember and use it  
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emotions   a four part process that involves physiological arousal, subjective feelings, cognitive interpretations, and behavioral expression, all of which interact. rather than occurring in linear sequence. help organisms deal with important events  
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display rules   the permissible ways of displaying emotions in a particular society  
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universal expression of emotions   facial language/expression are universal although culture decides when we express them  
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7 universal facial expressions   anger, contempt, happiness, sadness, surprise, disgust, fear  
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lateralization of emotion   different influences of the two brain hemispheres on various emotions. left hemisphere apparently influences positive emotions and the right hemisphere influences negative emotions  
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physiological arousal type of response   neural, hormonal, visceral, and muscular changes  
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subjective feelings type of response   the private experience of one's internal affective state  
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cognitive interpretation type of response   attaching meaning to the emotional experience by drawing on memory and perceptual processes  
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social/behavioral reactions   expressing emotion through gestures, facial expressions, or other actions  
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james lang theory   emotion is a product of physiological response. stimulus produces a physical response that in turn produces an emotion  
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cannon-bard theory   emotion is part of the physiological response. they both occur at the same time  
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two factor theory (schachter-singer)   emotions result from an evaluation of the cognitive appraisal and physical arousal  
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cognitive appraisal   individual decide on an appropriate emotional response  
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opponent process theory   emotions have pairs. when one is triggered the other is surpressed  
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emotional intelligence   the ability to understand and control emotional response  
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motivation   all the processes involved in starting, directing, and maintaining physical and psychological activities  
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drive   biologically instigated motivation  
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motive   an internal mechanisms that selects and directs behavior.  
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uses for motivation   connects observable behavior to internal state (hunger = social pressure or drive), accounts for differences in behavior (intensity), explains perseverance despite adversity, relates bio to behavior  
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intrinsic motivation   desire to engage in an activity for its own sake. internal pleasure  
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extrinsic motivation   desire to engage in an activity to achieve and external consequence, a reward  
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conscious motivation   having the desire to engage in an activity and being aware of that desire  
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unconscious motivation   having a desire to engage in an activity but being consciously unaware of the desire.  
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drive reduction theory   helps us meet biological needs. motivates to take action in order to reduce the tension  
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arousal theory   seek optimum level of excitement and arousal  
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yerkes dodson law   performance increases with physiological or mental arousal but only to a point. when arousal becomes too high, performance decreases  
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incentive theory   rewards and punishments  
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cognitive dissonance   motivates us to have consistent thoughts and behaviors. when those do not meet, individuals experience unpleasant mental tensions. hypocrite  
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hierarchy of needs. maslow's theory   biological needs, safety needs, attachment and affiliation needs, esteem needs, and then self-actualization  
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approach-approach conflict   choosing between two good options  
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approach avoidance conflict   a conflict in which there are both appealing and negative aspects to the decision to be made  
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avoidance avoidance conflict   lesser of two evils  
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multiple approach-avoidance conflict   must choose between options that have both many attractive and negative aspects.  
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fixed action pattern   genetically based behaviors seen across a species that can be set off by a specific stimuli  
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need   biological imbalance that threatens survival  
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need for achievment   mental state that produces a psychological motive to excel or to reach some goal  
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set point   tendency of the body to maintain a certain level of body fat and body weight  
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sexual response cycle   four stage sequence of arousal, plateau, orgasm, and resolution in both men and women  
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Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis   The hypothesis that frustration leads to aggressive behavior. Frustration develops when an aggressor is unable to attain a goal  
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instinct theory   we do things based on instinctual urges  
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stress   a physical and mental response to a challenging or threatening situation  
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stressor   a stressful stimuli  
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general adaption syndrome   pattern of general physical responses that take essentially the same form in responding to any serious chronic stressor  
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alarm reaction   first stage of GAS which the body mobilizes its resources to cope with stressor  
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resistance   second stage of GAS during which the body adapts to and uses resources to cope with stressor  
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exhaustion   third stage of GAS during which body depletes its resources in responding to ongoing stressor  
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type a personality   intense, angry, competitive, or perfectionistic characteristics  
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type b personality   relaxed and unstressed  
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learned helplessness   pattern of failure to respond to noxious stimuli after and organism learns its responses are ineffective  
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developmental psychology   psychological specialty that studies how organisms change over time as the result of biological and environmental influences  
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nature-nurture   long-standing discussion over the relative importance of nature (heredity)and nurture (environment) in their influence on behavior and mental processes. genes vs. life experiences  
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john locke   said that children are born with a "blank slates" that their experiences would be written on  
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rousseau   everyone was hard-wired from birth to be who they are. had predispositions to be a certain way  
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continuity   perspective that development is gradual and continuous. gradual.  
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discontinuity   perspective that development proceeds in an uneven fashion. series of separate stages  
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developmental stages   periods of life initiated by significant transitions or changes in physical or psychological functioning  
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prenatal period   developmental period before birth  
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zygote   fertilized egg  
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embryo   name of the developing organisms during first 8 weeks after conception.  
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fetus   developing organism between the embryonic stage and birth  
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teratogens   substances from the environment, including viruses, drugs, and other chemicals, that can damage the developing organism during prenatal.  
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placenta   organ interface between the embryo or fetus and the mother, the placenta separates the bloodstreams, but it allows the exchange of nutrients and waste products  
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neonatal period   from birth to first month  
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what are newborns with   basic reflexes (unlearned responses to stimuli). withdraw limb to escape pain. will cry. rooting reflex (turn to face to nipple) and grasping reflex (closing hands). can recognize human voices and faces even though blind  
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infancy   time between the end of the neonatal period and the establishment of language  
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attachment   enduring social emotional relationship between a child and a parent or other regular caregiver  
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imprinting   a primitive form of learning in which some young animals follow and form an attachment to first moving object they see and hear  
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baby temperament   mood, activity level, and emotional stability  
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securely attached   have strong bond with their parent/guardian, generally healthy mentally and physically  
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slow to warm up   less cheery, irregular in sleep, and eating patterns, generally slow when adapting to change  
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easy baby   happy, regular in sleep and eating, adaptable and not readily upset  
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difficult baby   glum, resistant to change, and irritable  
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mary ainsworth and harry harlow   studied attachment in children  
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maturation   process by which the genetic program manifests itself over time  
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affect of parents and guardians   affect us most. genetics. teach us how to form proper relationships and forms strong attachments. shape attitudes, values, manners, faith, and politics.  
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authoritarian   impose rules and expect obedience  
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permissive   submit to their children's desires, make few demands and use little punishment  
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authoritative   both parents are demanding and responsive. more rules and enforce them and explain why they made the rules and often encourage open dialog, especially with their older children  
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schemas   are pliable mental molds into which we pour experiences  
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assimilation   mental process that modifies new information to fit it into existing schemas  
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accommodation   mental process the restructures existing schemes so that new information is better understood.  
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jean piaget   cognitive development  
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sensorimotor stage   first stage in piaget. birth to age 2 (infants). child relies heavily on senses and action. lack of object permanence until after 8 months  
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object permanence   awareness that object exists even after it can no longer be seen  
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mental representation   ability to form internal images of objects and events  
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preoperational stage   second stage of piaget. age 2-7. marked by well developed mental rep. and use of language. lack performance of mental operations and logical reasoning skills. kids have egocentrism and animistic thinking. lack conservation and irreversibility  
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egocentrism   self-centered inability to realize that there are other viewpoints that one's own  
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animistic thinking   inanimate objects are imagined to have life and mental processes  
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irreversibility   inability to think through a series of events or mental operations and then mentally reverse the steps  
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conservation   understanding that physical properties of an object of substance do not change hen appearences change but nothing is added or taken away  
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concrete operational stage   third stage of piaget, 7-11. logical thinking develops, gain conservation, can perform mental operations, and can grasp mathematical transformation. cannot grasp abstract thinking  
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mental operations   solving problems by manipulating images in one's mind  
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formal operational stage   final stage of piaget. 12 to adulthood. reasoning expands from simply oncrete thoughts to encompass abstract thinking. imagined realities and symbols. first stage that children display a strong potential for mature , moral reasoning  
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erikson   psychosocial development  
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psychosocial development   erikson. developmental stages refer to 8 major challnges that appear successively across the lifespan, which require an individual to rethink his or her goals and relationships with others  
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trust vs. mistrust   infants. basic need of survival will be provided and will develop sense of trust and security and will form good relationships. if not met then will develop sense of mistrust, anxiety and will fail to form meaningful relationships.  
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autonomy vs. self-doubt   toddlers. learn to do things on own. must know they are capable of handling themselves. otherwise will feel inadequate and insecure about themselves, low self-esteem and confidence.  
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initiative vs. fuilty   3-6, pre-school. must be confident to learn to initiate and carry out plans. self-dependent. otherwise low self-esteem and confidence and etc.  
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competence vs. inferiority   elementary school. adequacy in basic social and intellectual skills,to gain pleasure and sense of self-pride. otherwise low self-esteem  
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identity vs. role confusion   teens/adolescence. must develop on identity and have comfortable sense of self, both unique and social accepted. otherwise will leave individual confused and sad.  
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intimacy vs. isolation   early adulthood. ability to for close and committed relationships. gain acceptance and be loved. otherwise will be sad and lonely  
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generativity vs. stagnation   middle aged folk. focus of concern beyond oneself to ant to contribute to world through family and work. otherwise feel lack of purpose in life.  
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integrity vs. despair   old people. coping with impending death and view successes and failure in life. must have satisfaction and wholesome view on life. otherwise feel futile and disappointed  
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adolescence   puberty to early adulthood  
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primary sex characteristics   sex organs and genitals  
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secondary sex characteristics   gender-related physical features that develop during puberty. breasts, facial hair, deep voices, wide hips, pubic hairs, etc.  
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adolescent egocentrism   heightened self-consciousness of teens. tend to believe that we are center of universe  
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imaginary audience   belief that others are interested in your life as you are  
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personal fable   sense of uniqueness and invincibility that all adolescents possess. big fish in small pond  
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gender roles   set of prescribed actions for either sex. differ from culture to culture. play huge role in how you develop cognitively and socially  
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gender identity   develop from gender roles  
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androgyny   characteristics of both sexes  
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rolling car experiment   rolling car proved babies ability to have object permanence and visual cliff proved baby's  
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kohlberg   moral development  
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preconventional morality   before age 9. based on self-interest.  
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kohlberg stage 1   egocentric: punishment and obedience based.  
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kohlberg stage 2   cost/benefit orientation: reciprocity. awards or mutual benefits.  
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conventional morality   adolescences caring about hers and upholding laws and sochial norms  
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kohlberg stage 3   good child orientation. gain acceptance, avoid social disapproval, start thinking about others.  
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kohlberg stage 4.   law and order orientation. avoid penalties/jail. not everyone makes it this far  
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post conventional morality   affirms people's agreed upon rights and/or what one personally perceives as basic, ethical, principles  
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stage 5 kohlberg   social contract orientation. hardly anyone reaches here. promote welfare of one's society while helping yourself. win/win situation. what is moral may not be legal.  
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kohlberg stage 6   theoretical stage. ethical principle orientation. morality is based on one's conscious. achieve justice; be consistent with one's principle. no mutual benefit for oneself.  
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carol gilligan   bashed kohlberg for not studying females.  
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james lang theory   emotion is a product of physiological response. stimulus produces a physical response that in turn produces an emotion  
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two factor theory   emotions result from an evaluation of the cognitive appraisal and physical arousal  
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approach approach   choosing between two good options  
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general adaptions syndrome   body's reaction to stress. alarm to resistance to exhaustion  
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visual cliff   baby crawls across pexiglass with "drop" underneath it.  
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personality   the psychological qualities that bring continuity to an individual's behavior in different situations and at different times  
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psychoanalysis   freud's system of treatment for mental disorders. the term is often used to refer to psychoanlytic theory as well  
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uncionscious   freudian theory, this is the psychic domain of which the individual is not aware but that is the storehouse of repressed impulses, drives, conflicts, unavailable to consciousness  
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lbido   the freudian concept of psychic energy that drives individuals to experience sensual pleasure  
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id   primitive unconscious portion of the personality that houses the most basic drives and stores repressed memories  
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superego   mind's storehouse of values, including moral attitudes learned from parents and from society, roughly the same as the common notion of the conscience  
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ego   the conscious, rational part of the personality, charged with keeping peace between thee superego and the id  
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what technique did freud utilize   free association or talking  
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psychosexual staages   successive, instinctive patterns of associating ppleasure with stimulation of specific bodily areas at different times of life. oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital  
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oral stage   1st year. the challenge is to overcome dependency and desire is oral stimulation by sucking, eating, crying, babbling.  
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anal stage   1-3 years. challenge is toilet training and self control. and the desires are anal stimulation by bladded and bowel function  
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phallic stage   3-6 years. challenge resolving oedipus complex, involving erotic attraction to parent of opposite sex and hostiility to the parent of the same sex  
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latency stage   6 years to puberty. challenge is to consciously learn modesty and shame while unconsciously still dealing with repressed oedipal complex. desire to repress sexual and aggressive desires,  
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genital stage   adulthood. desire to have mature sexual relationships. challenge is to displace energy into healthy activities and establish new relationship with parents  
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oedipus complex   according to freud, a largely unconsciou process whereby boys displace an erotic attraction toward mother to females of their own age and at the same time, identify with their fathers  
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identification   the mental process by which an individual tries to become like another person, especially the same sex parent  
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penis envy   according to freud, the female desires to have a penis--a condition that usually results in their attraction to males  
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fixation   occurs when psychosexual development is arrested at an immature stage  
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ego defense mechanisms   largely unconscious mental strategies employed to reduce the experience of conflict or anxiety  
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repression   an unconscious process that excludes unacceptable thoughts and feelings from awareness and memory  
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denial   avoid a difficult situation by simply denying that it exists.  
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rationalization   giving socially acceptable reasons for actions that are really based on motives that they believe to be unacceptable  
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reaction formation   people act in exact opposition to their true feelings. child with low self-esteem becomes a bully  
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displacement   shifting your reaction from the real source of your distress to a safer individual or object  
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regression   adopt immature, juvenile behaviors such as crying, hitting, throwing things, to deal with stress just like when they were younger  
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sublimation   making sexual or aggressive desires available in a way that are acceptable like for example joining a sports team  
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projection   attributing our own unconscious desires to other people or objects. in small children that often say it's not their own but another person's fault  
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projective tests   personality assessment instruments. based on freud's ego defense mechanism of projection  
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rorschach inkblot technique   a projective test requiring subjects to describe what they see in inkblots  
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thematic apperception test   a projective test requiring subjects to make up stories that explain ambiguous pictures  
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psychic determinism   freud's assumption that all our mental and behavioral responses are caused by unconscious traumas, desires, or conflicts  
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neo-freudians   refers to theoriests who broke with freud but whose theories retain psychodynamic aspect, especially a focus on motivation as the source of energy for the personality  
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carl jung   prodigee of freud who ventured off from freud because of the sex and believed in a spiritual aspect to personality  
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personal unconsciou   similar to that of freud's unconscious and id  
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collective unconscious   jung's addition to the unconscious, involving a reservoir for instinctive memories including archetypes which exist in all people  
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archetypes   ancient memory images in the collective unconscious. appear and reappear in art, literature, and folktales around the world. mother, father, shadow, trickster, old wise man  
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karen horney   emphasized social roles not unconscious sexual urges. women wanted the same rights and opportunity as men and were not envy of the penis (womb envy). healthy personality = social relationships + fulfillment of one's potential  
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basic anxiety   karen horney. sense of certainty and loneliness in a hostile world and can lead to maladjustment  
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neurotic needs   sign of neurosis in horney's theory. developed if there is failure in achieving social relationships or fulfillment of one's potential. is a way to deal with it all  
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alfred adler   believed people are motivated by a need to overcome feelings of inferiority  
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inferiority complex   a feeling of inferiority that is largely unconscious with its roots in childhood  
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compensation   making up for one's real or imagined deficiencies  
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all neu-freudians have one thing in common with freud   deal with unconscious  
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humanistic perspective on personality   personality is driven by need to adapt, learn, grow, and excel. mental disorders arise from unhealthy situations  
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abraham maslow   theory on selc-actualizing person and the hierarchy of needs  
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self actualizing personalities   healthy individuals who have met their basic needs and are free to be creative and fulfill their potentialities  
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carl rogers   person-centered perspective. people are basically good and have self-actualization tendencies. unless held back by environment. environment needs to let the individual be genuine, it needs to accept the individual, and provide empathy for the individual  
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fully functioning person   carl roger's term for a healthy self-actualizing individual who has a self-concept that is both positive and congruent with reality  
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trait perspective   characterstics, behaviors, conscious motives. type a-intense. type b-relaxed  
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gordon allport   3 kinds oof individual traits, central--basis of personality. secondary--preference and attitudes, and sometimes cardinal-single trait that defines you  
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traits   stable personality characteristics that are presumed to exist within the individual and guide his or her thoughts and actions under various conditions  
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what's wrong with the trait perspective   too general, not changeable, only snapshot of personality  
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bandura   driven by expectations of how our actions might affect other people. collection of learned behaviors from observational learning  
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observational learning   the process of learning enw responses by watching other's behavior  
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locus of control   jullian rotter. individual's sense of where his or her life influences originate. people approach situations differently based on locus of control thus affected personality  
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internal locus   believing you control your destiny  
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external locus   believing outside factors control destiny  
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MMPI   personality test that gives scores on ten important clinical traits  
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what are the big five personality factors/dimensions   emotional stability. extraversion. openness. agreeableness. conscientiousness  
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temperament   basic and pervasive personality dispositions that are apparent in early childhood and that establish the tempo and mood of the individual's behavior  
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individualism vs collectivism   in euro-american culture the individual is stressed. pushed to establish unique identity and assume others are similiarly motivated. in asian-african culture collectivism and the family or unit is stressed. the individual is incomplete without its group  
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