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The science of psychology, the biological perspective, and learning.

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Wilhelm Wundt   show
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Abraham Maslow   show
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show Lived after getting a steel rod go through his head.  
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show Founder of humanism  
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John Watson   show
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Ivan Pavlov   show
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B. F. Skinner   show
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Sigmund Freud   show
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show Focus on operant conditioning, punishment, and reinforcement  
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show Free will. Self-acutalization  
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Cognitive Perspective   show
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show Modern psychoanalyis  
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Sociocultural Perspective   show
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show Behavior to biological events.  
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Evolutionary Perspective   show
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show Tremendous amounts of detail given but cannot apply to others.  
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Surveys   show
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show realistic but observer effect, observer bias, observations may not hold across settings.  
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show control over environment and allows use of specialized equipment. but may result in artificial behavior  
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Experiment   show
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Four major goals of psychology   show
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show What is happening?  
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show Why is it happening? General explanation of a set of observations or facts  
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show Will it happen again?  
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show How can it be changed?  
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show Scientific study of behavior  
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Positive Correlation   show
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Negative Correlation   show
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show definition of a variable of interest that allows it to be directly measured  
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representative sample   show
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3 subfields of psychology   show
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show PH.D., academic training  
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psychiatrist   show
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psychoanalyst   show
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psychiatric social worker   show
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show The focus of study is the structure or basic elements of the mind.  
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Functionalism   show
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show Focusing on perception and sensation, particularly the perception of patterns and whole figures.  
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Psychoanalysis   show
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show Tubelike structure that carries the neural message to other cells  
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show branchlike structures that receive messages from other neurons  
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show the cell body of the neuron responsible for maintaining the life of the cell  
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Receptor Sites   show
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show Fatty substances produced by certain glial cells that coat the axons of neurons to insulate, protect, and speed up the neural impulse.  
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show chemical found in the synaptic vesicles that, when released, has an effect on the next cell  
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Synaptic Vesicles   show
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show Major inhibitory neurotransmitter, involved in sleep and inhibits movement  
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show excitatory or inhibitory; involved in control of movement and sensations of pleasure  
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show excitatory or inhibitory; involved in mood, sleep, and appetite  
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Reuptake   show
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show bundles of axons coated in myelin that travel together through the body  
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Glial Cells   show
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Basic types of neurons   show
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neuroplasticity   show
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Autonomic   show
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Somatic   show
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Sympathetic   show
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show responsible for normal body functions  
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EEG   show
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PET   show
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CT   show
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show using radio waves and magnetic fields of the body to produce detailed images  
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show mri-based. allows for functional examination of brain areas through change in brain oxygenation.  
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show medulla, pons, retucular formation, and cerebellum  
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show controls balance and maintains muscle coordination  
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show control completes though processes  
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show plays a role in our learning, memory, and ability to compare sensory information to expections  
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show fear responses and memory of fear  
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show connects the left and right hemispheres  
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show controls life-sustaining functions such as heartbeat, breathing, and swallowing  
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Hypothalmus   show
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What are the four lobes of the brain?   show
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Broca's aphasia   show
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show unable to understand or pronounce language  
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spatial negelect   show
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show on top of the kidneys, deal with stress, regulate salt intake, and secondary source of sex hormones  
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Thyroid   show
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show controls blood sugar levels  
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show sex glands  
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show in brain. human growth hormone and other hormones.  
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Left hemisphere   show
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Right Hemipshere   show
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Classical Conditioning   show
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Stimulus generalization   show
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Stimulus discrimination   show
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show the disappearance of a learned response  
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Spontaneous Recovery   show
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High-order conditioning   show
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show emotional response to a learned stimuli  
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show classical conditioning of a reflex response or emotion by watching the reaction of another person.  
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show development of nausea or aversive response to a particular taste.  
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biological preparedness   show
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show classical conditioning occurred because the conditioned stimulus became a substitute for the unconditioned stimulus  
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cognitive perspective   show
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Operant conditioning   show
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show law stating that if and action is followed by a pleasurable consequence, it will tend to be repeated  
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Operant   show
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show any stimulus that increases probability that the response will occur again  
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show event or object that increase the likelihood of that response occuring again  
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Primary reinforcer   show
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Secondary reinforcer   show
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show the tendency for a response that is reinforced after some correct responses to be very resistant to extinction  
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show the reinforcement of each and every correct response  
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show provides an organism with a cue for making a certain response in order to obtain reinforcement  
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successive approximations   show
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instinctive drift   show
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behavior modification   show
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show rewarded with tokens  
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applied behavior analysis   show
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show use of feedback about biological conditions to bring involuntary responses  
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show using brain-scanning to proved feedback in effort to modify behavior  
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latent learning   show
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show aha moment  
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learned helplessness   show
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show learning new behavior by watching a model  
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learning/performance distinction   show
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