psych 101 exam 1
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| show | the science of behavior and mental process
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| show | the study of the medical treatment of psychological disorders
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| show | thought the soul was separate from the body, and was not subject to physical laws
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| show | using only introspection
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| show | Wilhelm Wundt, Germany
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| who was the founder of structuralism who opened the first psychology laboratory in america? | show 🗑
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| what are the two reasons why introspection was a bad method for studying mental events? | show 🗑
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| how did functionalists try to understand the mind | show 🗑
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| show | William James. the principles of psychology
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| what scientific theory influenced the functionalists? | show 🗑
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| show | studying mental illness
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| what did Sigmund freud think caused mental illnesses? | show 🗑
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| show | relationship between behavior and reinforcement
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| who was the founder of behaviorism who conditioned little Albert? | show 🗑
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| what was the name of the behaviorist who studied operant conditioning? | show 🗑
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| show | behavior being changed through reinforcements
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| why did behaviorism decline in popularity? | show 🗑
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| show | to determine how information is encoded, stored, transformed, and retrieved by the brain
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| show | computer metaphor
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| what is the evolutionary approach to studying psychology? | show 🗑
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| what does physiological psychology study? | show 🗑
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| show | how the nervous system receives / interprets informations from the senses
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| show | attention, memory, language, and problem solving
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| show | how people influence and relate to one another
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| what does counseling and clinical psychology study? | show 🗑
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| what is a scientific theory? | show 🗑
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| what does it mean for a scientific theory to be falsifiable? | show 🗑
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| show | a prediction of observable events
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| show | a description of the behavior or abilities of a single individual; good for generating hypothesis, bad for testing theories
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| show | psychoanalysis
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| what research technique in psychology is most subject to the problem of confirmation bias? | show 🗑
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| show | observes and describes behavior
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| show | naturalistic observation
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| what are naturalistic observations good for? | show 🗑
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| show | the relationship between variables without variables without manipulating them
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| show | when ethical or very difficult to impossible
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| what is causation? | show 🗑
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| show | correlation does not mean causation.
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| if two variables have a perfect positive relationship, what would be the value of the correlation coefficient for those variables? | show 🗑
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| show | it would be very weak
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| what two characteristics must an experiment possess? | show 🗑
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| what is an independent variable? | show 🗑
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| what is a dependent variable? | show 🗑
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| show | every person in the experiment has an equally likely chance of being assigned to each level of the independent variable
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| in contrast to all other research techniques, what does an experiment allow a researcher to do? | show 🗑
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| show | defining in terms of the variables being measured
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| show | neuron
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| what are the four parts of a neuron and what are their functions? pt 1 | show 🗑
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| what are the four parts of a neuron and what are their functions? pt 2 | show 🗑
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| what is an action potential? | show 🗑
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| show | synapse
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| what is a neurotransmitter? | show 🗑
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| show | hindbrain
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| show | controls breathing, heart rate, and vomiting
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| show | regulates sleep and arousal
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| show | midbrain
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| what do the superior colliculus and the inferior colliculus do? | show 🗑
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| show | Parkinson's disease
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| what part of the brain (hindbrain, midbrain, forebrain) contains the cortex, hypothalamus, amygdala, hippocampus, and basal ganglia? | show 🗑
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| what does the hypothalamus regulate? | show 🗑
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| what does the amygdala do? | show 🗑
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| what does the hippocampus do? | show 🗑
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| show | hippocampus
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| show | reward system of the brain
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| according to burnham and phelan's theory of how the basal ganglia work, what happens when people have a gain in their material success? | show 🗑
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| show | the emotional pain fades question quickly with time so we won't be debilitated by grief
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| what is humanistic psychology? | show 🗑
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