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| the scientific study of behavior and the mental process | psychology
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| wat are the 4 goals of psychology | description, understanding, prediction, and control
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| father of psychology, establlished the first psychiactric lab in 1879 | wilhelm wundt
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| unconscious | psychoanalysis
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| observable behaviorism | John B. Watson
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| human nature, free will | humanism
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| the study of the biological bases of behavior and mental process | biopsychological
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| perspective that focuses on the relationship b/t social behavior and cultured | sociocultured
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| medical doctor who has specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders | psychiatrist
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| system of gathering data so that bias and error in measurement are reduced | scientific method
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| tenative explanation of a phenomenon vased on observation | hypothesis
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| watching something in its natural environment | naturalistic observation
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| study of 1 individual in great detail | case study
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| a measure of the relationship b/t 2 variables | correlation
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| +1.00&-1.00 | correlation range
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| +.89&-.89=same | direction of correlation
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| variable in a experiment that is manipulated by the experiment | independent variable
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| attatched to the soma & sends messages to the brain | axon
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| chemical found in the synaptic vescles that, when released, has an effect on the next cell | neurotransmitter
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| part of the ANS that is responsible for reacting to stressful events and bodily arousal | sympothetic division(fight or flight)
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| part of the ANS that restores the body to normal functioning after arousal and is responsible for the day to day functioning of the organs and glands | parasympothetic division
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| link b/t the brain and glanorial system | hypothamus
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| right brain | faces
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| left brain | names
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| actions are like the actions of hormones | neurotransmitters
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| the process that occurs when special receptors in the sence organs of outside stimuli to become neural signals in the brain | senstation
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| the lowest level of stimulation that a person can consciously detect 50% of the time the stimulation is present | absolute threshold
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| tendancy of the brain to stop attending to constant, unchanging info | habituation
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| constant movement of the eyes, tiny little vibrations | microsaccades
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| sight does not | habituate
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| the portion of the whole spectrum of light that is visible to the human eye | visible spectrum
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| color part of the eye that controls the pupil | iris
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| visual sensory recepptors found at the back of the retina, responsible for noncolor sensitivity to low levels of light | cones
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| no cones or cones that are not working at all | monochrome color blindness
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| either the red or green cones are not working | red-green color blindness
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| middle ear/eardrum | conduction hearing
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| inner ear/auditory | nerve hearing
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| treatment of nerve hearing damage | cochlear implant
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| 5 primary tastes | sweet sour salty bitter and umami
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| the sensation of smell | olfactory sence
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| sense of the location of body parts in relation to the ground and each other | kinesthetic sense
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| the sensations of movement, balance, and body position | vestibular senses
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