Psychology Exam 1
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| show | the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
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| What 2 fields combine to create psychology? | show 🗑
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| What is the history behind psychology? | show 🗑
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| show | yes
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| show | Wilhelm Wundt who founded the first experimental laboratory in 1879 in Leipzig, Germany
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| show | Breaks consciousness down into parts. founded by Wilhem Wundt and his student Edward Titchner developed it.
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| show | understanding the functions of the consciousness and why it does what it does and how does it benefit us. founded by William James.
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| show | Describe, explain, predict, and control behavior and mental process.
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| show | process of observing without interfering as behavior occurs in the natural environment.
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| show | study of a behavior/mental process in a particular group or individual
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| show | broad portrait of large groups, asked using interviews/questionnaire
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| Experiment: | show 🗑
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| correlations: | show 🗑
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| show | provides a lot of data that would be hard to duplicate in a lab
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| show | bias since animals or people might act different knowing they're being watched
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| show | studying rare new phenomenons
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| weaknesses of case study: | show 🗑
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| strengths of survey: | show 🗑
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| show | people may not answer honestly, hard questions.
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| strengths of Experiment: | show 🗑
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| weaknesses of Experiment: | show 🗑
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| strengths of correlations: | show 🗑
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| weaknesses of correlations: | show 🗑
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| show | assigning participants to different groups by chance
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| show | broad explanation based on evidence
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| show | specific testable prediction based on theory, not a question.
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| Independent variable: | show 🗑
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| show | variable being measured
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| Experimental group: | show 🗑
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| Control group: | show 🗑
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| show | part of the population being studied
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| Double-blind: | show 🗑
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| Correlation coefficients: | show 🗑
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| What are some necessary skills for critical thinking? | show 🗑
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| What are the divisions of the nervous system? | show 🗑
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| show | brain and spinal cord
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| PNS: | show 🗑
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| show | the finger-like cells present on the end of a neuron that receive information from other neurons.
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| show | The main part of a neuron that contains the nucleus (soma)
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| Axon: | show 🗑
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| Myelin sheath: | show 🗑
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| Terminal buttons: | show 🗑
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| Synapse: | show 🗑
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| Electrical communication: | show 🗑
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| show | Neurotransmitters are released across the synapse to communicate with the next neuron.
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| show | hindbrain, midbrain, and forebrain
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| show | controls important functions, breathing, hart rate, etc.
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| Midbrain: | show 🗑
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| show | controls functions that separate us from animals, thinking, emotions, etc.
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| What is a reflex and example: | show 🗑
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| What are the 4 lobes of the cerebral cortex: | show 🗑
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| show | decision making, planning, movement.
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| show | Process sensory (touch) information.
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| show | interpreting sound and recognizing objects and visual memory.
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| show | processes visual information.
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| Right hemisphere: | show 🗑
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| show | logical, language, analytical, planning, self separate, verbal tasks.
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| What connects the 2 hemispheres? | show 🗑
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| Sensory cortex: | show 🗑
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| Motor cortex: | show 🗑
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| show | stability between different aspects of life.
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| show | managing stress, self-care, boundaries
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| What happens when the body is out of balance? | show 🗑
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| What is stress? | show 🗑
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| Acute stress: | show 🗑
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| show | long term stress like being poor
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| show | SNS triggers "fight or flight", releasing adrenaline, increasing heart rate, breathing, blood pressure to prepare the body for action.
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| How to minimize stress in ur life? | show 🗑
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