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Chapter 1, 2, 3, 5

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show thoughts & feelings  
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brain   show
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show actions  
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show people change, are different, & experience things differently (variability) mind prone to error & illusion  
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What serves as the stable factor when studying psychology?   show
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show philosophy & physiology  
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show it measures & predicts thoughts, behaviors, & brain processes  
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animism   show
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show mind & body separate mind can't be studied scientifically  
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show study of mind, brain, behavior, & their interactions  
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modified dualism (Descartes)   show
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show pineal gland (good position & looked like a mini brain)  
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materialism (Mill & Hobbes)   show
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empiricism (Locke)   show
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show behavior influences how characteristics evolve  
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different scientists who tried to understand brain & nervous system (7)   show
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show Wundt; 1879; laboratory in Livitz, Germany  
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structuralism (Titchener @ Cornell)   show
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show focused on roles of thought & behavior (reasoning) & how they adapt  
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show a lot happened in the unconscious  
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show whole is different from the sum of its parts context & expectations influence what you see  
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show focused on observables & not mind fails to take mental processes & evolutionary history into account  
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What are the 2 categories in psychological disciplines/areas?   show
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show 1. identify problem/theory 2. derive hypotheses 3. design experiment to collect data 4. analyze data to potentially modify theory/hypothesis (cannot prove, but can disprove)  
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hypothesis   show
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theory   show
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show controlled situation to manipulate variables & measure their effects  
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show specific mental abilities associated with parts of brain  
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show loss of cognitive/motor functions temporarily  
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humanistic psychology   show
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cognitive psychology   show
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show links psychological processes to nervous system  
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show understand links b/w cognitive processes & brain activity  
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evolutionary psychology   show
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show causes/consequences of human interaction presence of people has an effect  
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cultural psychology   show
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absolutism   show
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show phenomena vary & should be viewed in context of specific culture  
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What are the 3 experimental variables?   show
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What do experiments help us understand?   show
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show no manipulation helps to see relationships  
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show idiosyncratic - specific to an individual insightful, but not generalizable  
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observational studies   show
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show counterbalancing - balance out costs to remove variability & see only your effects random assignment  
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expectancy factors   show
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show if they know about the study, participants can act a certain way  
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single-blind studies   show
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double-blind studies   show
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experiments/studies should have _______ & ________   show
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show replicable in other labs & with a wider audience  
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Mozart effect   show
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What needs to be done in order to make research ethically right?   show
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show -no needless harm -help others -no coercion -deception needs a good reason -protect powerless & vulnerabl (minors, handicapped, prisoners)  
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show how well is what you're trying to study measured (most are invalid)  
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show internal - with respect to study external - outside of study  
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show replicability  
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show consensus that exists in a method/tool used with studies using subjective judgements  
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show bell curve with concentration near middle  
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show describes data & distribution  
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inferential statistics   show
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show central tendency & variability  
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show mean (arithmetic average) median (middle score) mode (most popular response)  
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When do you want to use the median value?   show
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bimodal data   show
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types of variability   show
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show scatterplots (correlations) bar charts (categorical) line charts (continuous data over time) pie charts (distribution)  
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What do error bars show us on line charts?   show
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show p < 0.05 when 2 things seem different from each other, but they're not  
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show 2 things don't seem different, but they are fixed by power increase  
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show start w/ simplest theory  
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parts of Belmont Report   show
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third variable correlation   show
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show participants identical in terms of third variable  
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matched pairs technique   show
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parts of a neuron   show
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axon   show
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show where info comes in  
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myelin sheath   show
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nodes of ranvier   show
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show white matter - myelinated neurons (white = fat) gray matter - unmyelinated  
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show afferent (sensory) - periphery to CNS efferent (motor) - CNS to periphery interneurons - shuffling info to help mind think  
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glial cells   show
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How do glial cells support neurons?   show
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neural transmission   show
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What's the resting potential of a neuron?   show
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What happens to the electrical charge of a neuron during the action potential?   show
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show all or none - either they fire or they don't randomly fires more impulse = more firing  
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show rate & pattern of neural firing  
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What two ions play a role in neural firing?   show
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show negative  
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What happens during depolarization?   show
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show K ions flow out & Na gates close  
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show K gates close pump moves Na ions out & K ions in no action potential can be initiated  
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What happens in between synapses?   show
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What are the two types of neurons involved in neural firing?   show
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show -excitatory -binds to NMDA & AMPA receptors -deactivated by alcohol -sensory neurons involved with learning -precursor for GABA  
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GABA   show
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neuromodulators   show
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show agonist & antagonist  
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endorphins   show
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show repress neurotransmitter release  
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show reuptake with autoreceptors enzymatic deactivation/neutralization  
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show -re-uptake blocker of serotonin -agonist  
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show altered connections at dendrites pruning - taking out bad/not needed connections plasticity - modification neurogenesis  
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show peripheral & CNS  
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two parts of the PNS   show
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show sympathetic (dynamic) & parasympathetic (relaxed)  
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two parts of CNS   show
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show forebrain, midbrain, hindbrain  
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how is the CNS protected?   show
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show glial cells  
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show mediates brain & PNS, reflexes  
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show hindbrain, midbrain, forebrain  
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2 parts of hindbrain/brain stem   show
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show medulla (attached to spinal cord) reticular formation (arousal, circadian rhythm, heartbeat, blood circulation, respiration)  
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show pons (sensory info, respiration) cerebellum (fine motor control, coordination, balance)  
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2 parts of midbrain/mesencephalon   show
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what is the mesencephalon responsible for?   show
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what are 3 neurological imaging measures?   show
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what are 4 electrical measures?   show
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compare two types of neurological imaging   show
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3 types of functional imaging/blood flow measures   show
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show usually more than one part is affected  
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2 parts of forebrain   show
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2 parts of diencephalon   show
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4 parts of telencephalon   show
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3 parts of limbic system   show
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show -study of the mind -bumps & depressions on skull represent different functions  
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4 lobes of the cortex   show
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how many lobes do you have total?   show
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Phineas Gage   show
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show parts dedicated with respect to how sensitive they are  
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show parts dedicated with respect to how much you need to control it  
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show -active when watching others do things/you do things -origin of empathy  
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example of mirror neurons in action   show
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example of how primary motor cortex is associated with paralysis   show
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2 types of language areas   show
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show can't speak well, little syntax, can't write, CAN understand, laborious speaking  
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Wernicke's aphasia   show
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show contralateral except for sense of smell  
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show right of body, language, analytic thinking  
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show spatial processing holistic processing  
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show commisures -> corpus callosum  
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show project to opposite hemispheres & respective side of the eye  
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show K ions flow in and out  
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show depolarization until max potential is reached repolarization hyperpolarization  
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show speed flow of info down axon by jumping from node to node  
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show -inhibitory & excitatory -involuntary motor control -activates muscles  
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show Alzheimer's  
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dopamine   show
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lack of dopamine   show
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abundance of dopamine   show
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show -excitatory -mood & arousal  
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show -inhibitory -regulation of sleep, eating, aggression  
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L-dopa & MPTP   show
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amphetamine   show
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propranalol   show
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pituitary gland   show
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