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GRE Psych

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Kurt Lewin   show
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show a previous CS becomes an UCS for another NS  
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show Forward = CS is presented before the UCS; Backward = CS is presented after the UCS  
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primary drive   show
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secondary drive   show
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show balance theory  
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Balance theory   show
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Charles Osgood and Perry Tannenbaum   show
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Leon Festinger   show
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show proposed performance = drive X habit  
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Edward Tolman   show
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show performance = expectaition X value, people are motivated by goals that they think they will meet combined with the value of the event  
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Victor Vroom   show
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Henry Murray and David McClelland   show
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Need for achievement (nAch)   show
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John Atkinson   show
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Neil Miller   show
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show the idea of rewarding an undesired event with a desired event (i.e. dessert after eating spinach)  
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Donald Hebb   show
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Yerkes-Dodson effect   show
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response learning   show
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show linking together a series of stimili and behaviors to approximatethe desired behavior  
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show when an apparatus allows a subject to reinforc their own behaviors, such as bar pressing  
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show genetic preparedness for learning, esp. nausea  
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Garcia effect   show
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M. E. Olds   show
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show motor tasks are better if one task leads directly to another (like riding a bike) than if discrete  
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Positive transfer   show
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Negative transfer   show
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show Forgetting and learning curve (learning changes acceleration over time, slow, quick slow)  
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show discrete sounds in language that carry no meaning  
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show the smallest possible group of phonemes that form meaning (boy, ing)  
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show grammar  
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show aspects of pronunciation that carry meaning (tone, inflection, accents, etc.)  
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show transformational grammar, surface structure, language acquisition device (LAD)  
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transformational grammar   show
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show how words are organized on the surface in an expression  
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show the true meaning of an expression  
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overregulation   show
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show generalizing the name for things  
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telegraphic speech   show
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who learns language faster? girls/boys   show
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show 1 year - 1st words; 2 year - < 50 words in 2-3 word sentences; 3 yrs - 1000 word vocab w/ many errors; 4 yrs - grammar are rare excpetions  
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show theory of children's linguistic acquisition = children make hypotheses about syntax and self-correct with experience  
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Katherine Nelson   show
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William Labov   show
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Lev Vygotsky   show
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Alexander Luria   show
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Charles Osgood   show
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iconic memory   show
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George Sperling   show
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Ulric Neisser   show
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backward masking   show
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echoic memory   show
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show is mostly auditory and phonological  
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show disrupting stimli that occur before the new item is presented  
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show the difficulty in remembering a new item due to proactive interference  
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show disrupting stimuli that occur after the new item is presented  
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retroactive inhibition   show
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Savings   show
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encoding specificity principle   show
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semantic memory   show
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declarative memory   show
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Frederick Bartlett   show
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show studied by Frederick Bartlett, ideas and semandics of the story are better recalled than details or grammar of story  
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Allan paivio   show
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show ideas are better recalled if icons/images are combined with semantic memory  
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show depth of processing for memory  
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Karl Lashley   show
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Donald Hebb   show
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show studied the Aplysia sea slug and young chicks to show physical changes in the neurons with memory  
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show patient "HM" with lesion to the hippocampus and could not create new long-term memories  
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show memorizing lists of info, subject to the primacy and the recency effect  
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serial-anticipation learning   show
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paired-association learning   show
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show remembering lists of information in any order  
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show acoustic dissimilarity, semantic dissimilarity, brevity, familiarity, concreteness, meaning, importance to the subject  
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decay / trace theory   show
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interference theory   show
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generation-recognition   show
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show photographic memory  
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show flashes images for fractions of an inch  
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Zeigarnik effect   show
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concept   show
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mental set   show
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script   show
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show the representative or stereotypical example (scientists are good at math)  
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show defined convergent and divergent thinking  
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show taking many items to create a single solution  
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divergent thinking   show
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functional fixedness   show
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problem space   show
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mediation   show
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Allen Newell and Herbert Simon   show
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show first artificial computer simulation model by Allen Newel and Herbert Simon  
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show updated artificial simulation model by Allen Newel and Herbert Simon  
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deductive reasoning   show
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show leads to general rules inferred from specific details  
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show when a conclusion is influenced by the way information is phrased  
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show making conclusions based on what is thought to be correct instead of what logically follow from information given  
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show discovere semantic heirarchy that proved that related words are processed faster (canary is a bird = true is faster than toaster is a bird = false  
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which processes memory faster, pictures or words?   show
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bottom-up processing   show
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top-down processing   show
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show from one fixed point to another, esp when reading or gazing  
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show bodily reactions cause emotion  
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Cannon-bard theory of emotion   show
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Schacter-Singer Theory of Emotion   show
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show the part of the world that triggers a particular neuron  
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sensory transduction   show
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nativist theory   show
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structuralist theory   show
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show perceptional development in the ability to make finer discriminations among stimuli  
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ciliary muscles   show
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Ewald Hering   show
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show tri-color theory / component theory  
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lateral inhibition   show
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David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel   show
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show visual cliff  
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show aka after images, due to fatigued receptors that are overshadowed by opponent-processes  
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show Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful, symmetrical, and simple whenever possible (this is how Gestalt explains how we make order out of chaotic images  
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show the tendency to perceive smooth motion where there is none (apparent motion - animation)  
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show equal lines with wings  
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Ponzo illusion   show
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autokinetic effect   show
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show the perception of color brightness changes with illumination. Red especially appears less bright in low illumination  
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show inability to recognize faces  
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Robert Fanz   show
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E. H. Weber   show
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show a stimulus needs to be increased by a constant fraction of its original value in order for an organism to perceive a difference  
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show a refinement of Weber's law - the just noticeable difference increases logrithmically  
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show Developed by J. A. Swet, perception cannot be mathematically determined due to response bias (motivation). Response bias and signal strength determines perception  
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show determines intensity/loudness  
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Frequency   show
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Pinna   show
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Ossicles   show
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show membrane of the ear that are stimulated by the flow of cochlear fluid to hear  
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show discovered that different places of the cochlea are responsible for different tones  
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sound localization   show
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dichotic presentation   show
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papillae   show
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show sense pain and temperature changes in skin  
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Meissner's corpuscles   show
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show touch receptors for displacement of skin  
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show the temperature that is neither cold nor hot  
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show developed gate-control theory  
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Proprioception   show
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show sense thirst  
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Myelencephalon   show
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metencephalon   show
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medulla   show
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show connects the brain to the spinal cord  
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show considered oldest part of the brain; responsible for a;ertness, thirst, sleep, involuntary muscles  
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show midbrain  
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show controls vision and hearing, part of the midbrain/mesencephalon  
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tegmentum   show
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show part of forebrain, contains the thalamas and the hypothalamus  
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thalamus   show
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show ANS response; hunger and thirst; also houses the pituitary gland  
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telencephalon   show
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show group of structures for the four F's (fleeing, fighting, feeding)  
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cingulate gyrus   show
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gyrus   show
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sulcus   show
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show tough connective tissues that cover and protect the brain  
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superior colliculus   show
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show auditory reflexes  
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show controls large, voluntary muscles, linked to Parkinson's and Huntington's  
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show can't organized particular movements  
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show difficulty processing particular sensory information  
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aphasia   show
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alexia   show
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agraphia   show
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Broca's area   show
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Wernicke's area   show
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Hyperphagia   show
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show easily provoked rage due to removal / lesion of the cerebral cortex; in animals it tends to be removal; in humans it can be hypothalamic lesion or discharge  
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show provide / create myelin in the CNS  
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schwann cells   show
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monoamines   show
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show most abundant excitatory transmiter  
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show most abundant inhibitaory transmitter  
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Neuromodulators   show
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show turns a fetus into a male  
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hormones for menstration   show
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show regulates water levels and therefore regulates blood pressure  
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adrenocorticotropic hormone   show
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show drowsy, neural synchrony  
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Stage 1 sleep   show
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Stage 2 sleep   show
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Stage 3 sleep   show
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show delata waves more than 50% of the time, growth hormones are secreted  
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beta waves   show
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show subjects dprived of REM sleep will spend more time in REM the next night  
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Konrad Lorenz   show
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Ethology   show
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show aka releasers or sign stimuli, one individualof aspecies elicits an automatic, instinctual chain of behaviors from another individual in the same species  
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show requirements: performed by most members of the species, uniform, complex, cannot be interrupted  
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Nikolaas Tinbergen   show
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supernormal sign stimulus   show
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Karl von Frisch   show
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show coined "fight or flight", proposed homeostasis hypothesis  
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show a gamete that has half of the chromosomes of an organism  
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show cells that have pairs of chromosomes  
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show aka irrelevant behaviors, behaviors that have no particular survival function  
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show sexually receptive period in animals, "in heat"  
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instinctual drift   show
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show 1) behavioral isolation 2) goegraphic isolation 3) mechanical isolation 4) seasonal isolation  
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sexual dimorphism   show
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show circle dance = food close, waggle = far, angle off vertical = angle from sun, landmarks, magnetic fields, sun and polarized light are navigational aides  
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bird navigation   show
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show used chimpazees to study insight  
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show bred maze bright and maze dull rats  
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R, M Cooper and John Zubek   show
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show seperating sibling animals at birth to determine heredity and  
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projection   show
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show defense mechanism of channeling energy from unacceptable means to acceptable means  
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show memories that serve as representations of important childhood experiences  
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show psychoanalytical theory developed from Alfred Adler, based on the postitive, creative, social, and whole. We work on social needs and on "becoming", we either feel inferiority due to the gap between the ideal and the real, or a quest for superiority  
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Adlerian personality models   show
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show Carl Jung, the main drive is toward life and awareness  
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persona   show
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shadow   show
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anima   show
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show male elements that females possess, complementing her own femaleness, analytical theory (Jung)  
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show the full individual potential, symbolized by figures such as Jesus or Buddha, and by the mandala  
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show Aaron Beck; conscious thought patterns are the main role and not unconcsious drives; interpretation of events is more important than actual events; therapy is directed, short term, and focuses on tangible evidence of client logic  
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maladaptive cognitions   show
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arbitrary inference   show
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show black and white thinking in cognitive therapy  
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rational-emotive therapy   show
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show Fritz Perls, max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka; the goal is to detatch from past and fully experience and perceive the present; problems arise when we cannot perceive/fully experience the presetn and lack insight; thearpy is a dialog  
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show Victor Frankl and Rollo May; focuses on meaningfulness and meaninglessness; neuroticism stems from a lack of meaning  
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show block dopamine receptors and production; thorazine (chlorpromazine) and Haldol (haloperidol)  
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chlorpromazine   show
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show name brand for chlorpromazine, an antipsychotic  
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Haldol   show
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show generic for Haldol, an antipsychotic  
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Lithium   show
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show inhibit monoaminessuch as norepinephrine and serotonin  
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Antidepressants   show
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tricyclic antidpressants (TCA)   show
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amitriptyline   show
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MAOI   show
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Elavil   show
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Phenelzine   show
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Nardil   show
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SSRI   show
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Prozac   show
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show generic for Prozac, an SSRI  
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Paxil   show
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show generic for Paxil, and SSRI  
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show name brand for sertraline, an SSRI  
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Sertraline   show
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Anxiolytics   show
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show generic for Valium, an anxiolytic benzodiazepine  
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show name brand for diazepam, an anxiolytic benzodiazepine  
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show changes metabolism of alcohol to make one nauseous (i.e. fight alcoholism)  
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show critcized effectiveness of psychopharmacology as being no more succssful than no treatment at all  
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show pioneered psychoanalysis in children; object-relations theory (adult relations are based on infant/child experiences)  
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Karen Horney   show
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show Neo-Freudian, empasized social and interpersonal relationships  
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The Three Forces of psychotherapy   show
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show stress-inoculation therapy  
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show proved that abnormal behavior can be learned  
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Pick's disease   show
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schizoaffective disorder s   show
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show elements of schizophrenia/distorted reality, with eccentricities  
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tardive dyskinesia   show
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cretinism   show
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Korsakoff's syndrome   show
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Wernicke's syndrome   show
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Phenylketonuria (PKU)   show
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Tay-Sachs Disease   show
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show a Y and two X chromosomes  
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Martin Seligman   show
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show schizophrenia is artisitc, misunderstood, and should not be treated  
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show schozophrenogenic mothers  
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show studied pseudopatients that acted normal once they were admitted but whose behaviors were still being labeled as abnormal  
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Axis I   show
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show Personality Disorders and Menta Retardation  
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show General Medical Conditions  
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show Psychosocial and environmental conditions  
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Axis V   show
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primary preventions   show
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show fertilized ovum  
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germinal stage   show
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embryonic stage   show
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fetal stage   show
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show throwing arms and legs in response to loud noises  
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Babinski reflex   show
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Palmar reflex   show
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show assimilation (fitting new info into existing ideas) or accomodation (modifying schemata to incorporate new information)  
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show 0-2 years, reflexes give way to circular reactions (repeated behavior to manipulate)' object permanence; representaiton (visualization and language)  
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preoperational stage (Piagetian)   show
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concrete operational (Piagetian)   show
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show 12+ years, abstract relationships, logic, ratios, and values  
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Rochel Gelman   show
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show 4-7 (imitates rule following behavior), 7-11 understands and follow, 12+ applies abstract rules and can change rules if all parties agree  
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show theories of stages of development: avoid punishment, seek rewards, seek praise, follow rules, attentive to rights, able to follow abstract concepts  
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Carol Gilligan   show
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Erikson's stage birth-18 m   show
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Erikson's stage 18m-3y   show
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Erikson's stage 3y-6y   show
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show industry v inferiority  
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Erikson's stage teen   show
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Erikson's stage y adult   show
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show productivity v. stagnation  
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Erikson's stage o adult   show
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show positive and negative forces help forge attachment of infant to mother; healthy attachments to mother during critical period lead to healthy attachments throughout life  
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show used the stange situation to study attachment; discovered stranger anxiety, seperation anxiety, etc.  
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Diana Baumrind   show
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show nature provides only the blueprint, nurture actually develops that blueprint  
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show weak in prepubescence, strong in adolescence, weaker again later in life  
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show used "somatotypes" to predict personality based on body shape (fat = social pleasure-seeker, skinny = introvert)  
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GOrdan Allport   show
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show reduced Allport's 5000 traits to 16 bipolar traits  
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show OCEAN - (Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism)  
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Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor   show
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show 40-50%  
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Kay Deaux   show
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show studied androgyny, found that self-esteem is highest with androgynous individuals, creted the Bem Sex Role Inventory  
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Martina Horner   show
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Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin   show
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Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman   show
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show discovered that Type A personality leads to heart disease  
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F-scale   show
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George Kelley   show
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Jullian Rotter   show
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show aka fundamental attribution error; we tend to think that another person's actions are based on personality and not situation, but reverse for ourselves  
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Barnum effect   show
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self-efficacy   show
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Costa and McRae   show
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show TAT, uses ambiguous story cards that patients fill in, hopefully to project their needs, desires onto the story  
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show first social psychologist experiment; foud cyclists ride faster when riding with someone else  
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Kurt Lewin   show
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Fritz Heider   show
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show the assumption that one good characteristic means that a person has other good characteristics  
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show studied subjects that were told a lie and later told that it wasn't true. If they had processed an explanation for it, they still maintained original false belief  
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show the fallacy that the familiar is thought to be much more common than it really is  
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M. J. Lerner   show
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show a heuristic based on how much a person fits a prototype or stereotype  
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show heuristic that assumes that the most salient example is most common  
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Leon Festinger   show
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show self-perception theory - we take cues from our behavior and environment (when we are paid, we don't enjoy it as much)  
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gain-loss theory   show
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show prisoner's dilemma and trucking company dilemma  
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show the experiment with confederates who lied about which line is bigger to test conformity  
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Muzafer Sharif   show
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show group polarization; the risky shift (groups are more likely to take risks than individuals), discussion serves to strengthen the alsready dominat POV  
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show Irving Janis, unquestioned beliefs, pressure to conform, invulnerability, censors, cohesiveness within, isolation from without, and a strong leader  
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pluralistic ignorance   show
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Kenneth and Mamie Clark   show
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four factors of attraction   show
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show studied reactions to stress. we can either change the stressor (problem-focused) or our reaction (emotion-focused)  
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show showed that elderly that take care of aplant are healthier  
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bogus pipeline   show
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show studied link between frustration and aggression  
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M. Rokeach   show
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Hazel Markus   show
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Elaine Hatfield   show
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Walter Dill Scott   show
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show coined by Henry Landsberger, found that productivity increases when someone is being observed  
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Franz Joseph Gall   show
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show first to apply stats to psych, also promoted eugenics  
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show first experimental psychologist first experiment that had mathematical results  
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Wilhelm Wundt   show
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William James   show
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Stanley Hall   show
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show reflex arc and functonalism  
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show started structuralism  
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show applied psychology to improve treatment of mentally ill in hospitalization  
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show started Gestalt  
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show started existential psychology, started logotherapy which uses the search for meaning as a means of healing  
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show pioneered cognitive techniques in therapy; maladaptive thoughts cause abnormalities  
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Alfred Binet   show
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show modified from Binet's original to account for changes in intelligence over age, used mostly in children  
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Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale   show
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factors that predict IQ in adoption studies   show
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decline of memory due to age   show
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show studied birth order and intelligence; the oldest is highest, and each subsequent child is less; the bigger the gap between children, the more intelligent  
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Q-sort test   show
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show Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory assesses personality using three validity scales (lying, carelessness, and faking), also can diagnose some abnormals  
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CPI   show
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show Personality inventory based on Jungian psycholgy to give the four letter code  
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show subject creates their own naswer that is interpreted  
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show A series of pictures of frustrating situations where the subject needs to predict the response  
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show Does not diagnose, but it doues note severity of symptoms to track over time  
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show responses show which subgroup a subject fits into (such as career tests)  
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show tracks milestones of physical development but is a poor predictor of later intelligence  
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show an experiment where random placement into groups is impossible or unethical (i.e. smoking for 20 years)  
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show when a subject agrees to conflicting statements  
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show when a subject acts in a way that they think the experimenter wants them to act  
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Rosenthal effect   show
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Reactance   show
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show when enough subjects drop out of a study and their group is no longer representative or random  
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show statistical analysis of multiple studies  
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nominal variables   show
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show variables need to be arranged in order but there can be any gap in between, such as marathon running times  
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show variables with set distance in between, such as temperature, any zeros are arbitrary  
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show a variable with a set order, set distance, and a real zero, such as age  
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measures of central tendency   show
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show variance; subtract each value from the mean, square the differences, add the squared differences, divide by the number of values, then take the square root  
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show the number of deviations a datum is from the mean  
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show a transformation of the z score so that 50 is the mean and each increment of 10 is a snandard deviation  
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show 34:14:02  
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Pearson r correlation coefficient   show
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Spearman r correlation coefficient   show
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show the procedure for determining relationship and predicting obe variable based on another  
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show no correlation between variables; the correlation is equal to or less than random chance  
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show a test to determine how much data rejects the null hypothesis  
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show the baseline criterion to test significance (less that 5% or 1% margin of error)  
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show incorrectly reject the null hypothesis  
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Type II error   show
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t-test   show
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show a test of significance that looks at patterbs or distributions of a specific category (i.e. representativeness of race within a group)  
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show data that must be counted and therefore can never be negative  
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ANOVA, analysis of variance   show
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show used for more that one independent variable and to show the effects of each independent variable  
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show measures mastery in a particular area or subject (i,e, a final exam)  
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show measure less defined properties (i.e. intelligence)  
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show comparing two halves of a test to see reliable scores, such as evens v. odd  
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show stability of test scores  
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show how well a test measures a construct  
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internal validity   show
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external validity   show
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show whether scores of a new meaure positively correlate with other measures known to measure the same construct  
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construct validity   show
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show whether the content covers a good sample of the construct's aspects  
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