AP (History And Approaches- Sexuality) Flashcards
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Uses introspection to determine the underlying structures of the mind
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Structuralism
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Need to analyze the purpose of behavior
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Functionalism
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Approaches key words- genes
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Evolutionary
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Approaches key words- free will, choice, ideal actualization
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Humanistic
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Approaches key words- brain, NTs
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Biological
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Approaches key words- perceptions, thoughts
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Cognitive
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Approaches key words- learned, reinforced
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Behavioral
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Approaches key words- unconscious, childhood
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Psychoanalytic/ psychodynamic
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Approaches key words- society
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Sociocultural
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Approaches key words- a combination of different toes of approaches
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Biopsychosocial
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First fem. President of APA
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Mary Calkins
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Person who developed the theories of natural selection and evolution
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Charles Darwin
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She reformed mental institutions in the US
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Dorothea Dix
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First President of APA1st Journal
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Stanley Hall
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Father of American psychology- functionalist
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William James
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Father of modern psychology- structuralist
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William Wundt
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First fem. To receive a PhD in psych
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Margret Washburn
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First fem.
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Christine Franklin
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derived from physiology and philosophy
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Psychology
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Adv: researches and establish a cause and effect
Disadv: difficult to generalize
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Experiment
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Manipulated by the researcher during an experiment
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Independent variable
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The group that receives treatment during an experiment
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Experimental group
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The group that receives a placebo, also considered baseline, in an experiment
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Control group
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Shows behaviors associated with the exp. Group when having received a placebo
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Placebo effect
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Exp. Where neither the participants nor the experimenter are aware of which condition people are assigned to
Double-Blind
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Measured variable within an experiment
Dependent variable
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Clear, precise, typically quantifiable definition of your variables- allows replication
Operational definition
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Error/ a flaw found within a study
Confound
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Assigns participants to either control or experimental group at random- minimizes bias, increases chance of equal representation
Random Assignment
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Method for choosing participants- minimizes bias
Random Sample
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Accurate results
Validity
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Same result every time
Reliability
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Adv: real world validity (observe people in their own setting)
Disadv: no cause and effect
Naturalistic observation
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Adv: identify relationship between two variables
Disadv: no cause and effect
Correlation
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Variables vary in the same direction
Positive correlation
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Variables vary in opposing directions
Negative correlation
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Adv: studies one person (usually) in great detail, lots of info
Disadv: No cause and effect
Case study
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Shape of the data
Descriptive stats
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Average (in normal distribution)
Mean
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Middle number (use in skewed distribution)
Median
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Occurs most often in a set of numbers
Mode
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Establishes significance (meaningfulness)
Significant results NOT due to chance
Inferential statistics
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- confidentiality
- informed consent
- debriefing
- deception must be warranted
Ethical guidelines (APA)
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Basic cell of the NS
Neuron
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Receives incoming signals
Dendrites
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Cell body (includes nucleus)
Soma
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Action potential travels down this
Axon
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Speeds up signal down axon
Myelin Sheath
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Releases Neural transmitters- send signals into next neuron
Terminals
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Gaps between neurons
Synapse
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Movement of sodium and potassium ions across a membrane sends and electrical charge down the axon
Action Potential
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Stimulus must trigger the action potential past its threshold, but does not increase the intensity of the response
All or none law
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Neutron must rest and reset before it can send another action potential
Refractory period
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Neurons that receive signals
Sensory neurons
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Neurons that accept signals
Afferent neurons
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Neurons that send signals
Motor neurons
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Neurons that signal exits
Efferent neurons
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Brain and spinal cord
Central nervous system
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The rest of the nervous system (besides the brain and spinal cord)
Peripheral nervous system
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Allows for voluntary movement
Somatic nervous system
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Controls involuntary movements (heart beat, lungs, etc.)
Autonomic nervous system
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Arises the body for fight/flight (generally inhibits)
Parasympathetic nervous system
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Chemicals released in the synapse gap, received by neurons
Neurotransmitters
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Major inhibitory neurotransmitters
GABA
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Major excitatory neurotransmitters
GlutamateE
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Reward and movement neurotransmitters
Dopamine
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Mood and emotion neurotransmitters
Serotonin
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Neurotransmitter tied to memory
Acetylcholine (ACh)
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Neurotransmitter tied to sympathetic NS arousal
Epinephrine and Norepinephrine
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Neurotransmitters that help with pain control and happiness
Endorphins
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Neurotransmitter tied to love and bonding
Oxytocin
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Type of drug that mimics a NT
Agonist
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Drug that blocks a NT
Antagonist
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Unused NTs are taken back up into the sending neutron
Reuptake
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Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) are used to treat what disorder?
Depression
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Oldest part of the brain
Hindbrain
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Part of the brain that controls movement
Cerebellum
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Part of brain that regulates vital organs (heart rate, blood pressure, etc)
Medulla
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Part of the brain that controls sleep/arousal
Pons
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Part of the brain that allows us to have attention
Reticular Formation
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Part of the brain that allows for higher thought processes
Forebrain
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Part of the brains, regulates emotions and fear
Amygdala
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Part of the brain that is essential for memory 
Hippocampus
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The amygdala, hippocampus, and hypothalamus are all parts of the system
Limbic System
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The relay center of the brain for stimuli 
Thalamus
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The part of the brain that controls the reward and pleasure centers as well as eating behaviors 
Hypothalamus
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Damage this part of the brain causes an inability to produce speech 
Broca’s Area
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Damage this part of the brain causes an inability to comprehend speech 
Wernicke’s Area
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The outer portion of the brain that also has a higher order of thought processes
Cerebral cortex
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Part of the brain that is located on the back of the head tied to vision
Occipital lobe
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Part of the brain used for decision-making, planning, judgment, movement, and personality 
Frontal lobe
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Part of the brain located on the top of the head and in charge of sensations
Parietal lobe
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Located on the sides of the head (temples) in charge of hearing and face recognition 
Temporal lobe
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This part of the brain has a map of our sensory receptors in the parietal lobe
Somatosensory cortex
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This part of the brain has a map of our motor receptors located in the frontal lobe
Motor cortex
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A bundle of nerves that connects the two hemispheres of the brain, sometimes severed in patients with severe seizures
Corpus callosum
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When the brain has some specialized features on a specific side of the hemispheres
Lateralization
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Who conducted the split brain experiments?
Gazzanaga and Sperry
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What happened in the split brain experiments?
Images shown to the right hemisphere will be processed in the left and vice versa. Patient verbally identify what they saw. 
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The brains ability to “heal” itself
Brain plasticity
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Another term to describe identical twins
Monozygotic (MZ)
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Another term to describe fraternal twins
Dizygotic (DZ)
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Why do MZ twins have a higher percentage of also developing the same disease?
Genetics
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What is changed when MZ twins are raised in different places and show differences
Environment
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This system sends hormones throughout the body
Endocrine system
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 the most important gland controlled by the hypothalamus and releases growth hormones
Pituitary gland
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Gland related to the sympathetic nervous system and releases adrenaline
Adrenal glands
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Detection of a signal 50% of the time (is it there)
Absolute threshold
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What’s it called when Two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum proportion to tell the difference?
Difference threshold
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A theory with the means to measure the ability to differentiate between information-bearing patterns and random patterns that distract from the information
Signal detection theory
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Diminished sensitivity as a result of constant stimulation
Sensory adaptation
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The tendency to see something as part of a group- speeds up signal processing
Perceptual set
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Failure to notice something because you’re so focused on another task
Inattentional blindness
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Noticing your name spoken across the room when you weren’t previously paying attention
Cocktail party effect
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 What is the correct order that vision occurs in the eye?
(Optic nerve, bipolar cell’s, rods/cones, optic chiasm, occipital lobe, cornea, retina, lens, light, pupil, ganglion cells)
Light, cornea, pupil, lens, retina, rods/cones, bipolar cells, ganglion cells, optic nerve, optic chiasm, occipital lobe
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Protects the eye
Cornea
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Controls the amount of light that can enter the eye
Pupil/iris
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Focuses the light on the retina in the eye
Lens
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The area of best vision (cones)
Fovea
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Allows us to see black and white and in dim light
Rods
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Allows us to see color and in bright light
Cones
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These cells connect rods and cones to ganglion cells
Bipolar cells
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Opponent processing occurs here within the eye
Ganglion cells
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This occurs where the optic nerve leaves the eye
Blindspot
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Specialized cells that see motion, shapes, lines, etc.
Featured detectors
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Siri that there are three cones for receiving color, blue, red, and green
Trichromatic
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Complementary colors are processed in ganglion cells, which explains why we see after images
Opponent process
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Visual system overwhelms all others (nauseous in an IMAX theater vision trump’s vestibular)
Visual capture
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Recognize the objects do not physically change despite changes in sensory input (size, shape, brightness)
Constancies 
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Adjacent lights blink on and off and succession, which makes it look like there is movement
Phi phenomenon
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Motion produced by a rapid succession of slightly varying images (animation)
Stroboscopic movement
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How we form a 3-D image from a 2-D
Monocular cues
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Overlapping images appear closer
Interposition
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Two objects that are usually similar in size, the smaller is farther away
Relative size
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Hazy objects appear farther away
Relative clarity
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Corser objects are closer
Texture gradient
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Things higher in our field division look farther away
Relative height
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Parallel lines converge with distance (think railroad tracks)
Linear perspective
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How both eyes make up a 3-D image
Binocular cues
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Image is cast slightly different on each retinal. Location of image helps us determine depth.
Retinal disparity
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Eyes strain more (looking inward) as objects draw nearer
Convergence
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Processing the hole and then breaking it down into smaller parts
Top down processing
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Processing smaller parts and working towards completing the whole
Bottom up processing
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And what order does the pathway of sound travel? (Auditory canal, oval window, hammer/anvil/stirrup, cochlea, temporal lobes, auditory nerves, pinna, ear drum, sound)
Sounds, pinna, auditory canal, ear drum, hammer/anvil/stirrup, oval window, cochlea, auditory nerves, temporal lobes
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Pinna (ear), auditory canal are part of this section of the ear
Outer ear
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Eardrum and HAS (bones vibrate to send signals)
Middle ear
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Cochlea, sound is first processed here
Inner ear
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Both of these these occur in the cochlea
Theories of hearing
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Location where hair cells bend determines sound (high pitch)
Place theory
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The rate at which action potentials are sent determines sound (low pitch)
Frequency theory
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Order in which stimuli from physical touch is sent. (Thalamus, spinal cord, mechanoreceptors, somatosensory cortex)
mechanoreceptors, spinal cord, thalamus, somatosensory cortex
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We have a “gate” to control how much pain we experience
Gate control theory
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The sense of body position
Kinesthetic
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Sense of balance (semi circular canals in the inner ear effect this)
Vestibular
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The sense has five receptors (bitter, sweet, sour, salty, and umami)
Taste (gustation)
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The only sense that does not grow route through the thalamus first. Goes to the temporal lobe and amygdala
Smell (olfaction)
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The hole is greater than the sum of its parts
Gestalt psychology
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Organize information into figure objects (figures) that stand apart from surroundings (background)
Figure/ground
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Tendency to mentally fill in the gaps
Closure
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The tendency to group things together that appear near each other
Proximity
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The tendency to group things together based off of looks
Similarity
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Tendency to mentally form a continuous line
Continuity
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What level do you have control over your processes and you are totally aware
Higher-level
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What level of consciousness do you automatic processing occur such as daydreaming
Lower level
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Estate of consciousness produced through drugs, fatigue, or hypnosis
Altered state
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In charge of sleeping and dreaming in consciousness
Subconscious
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When you were completely asleep or knocked out
No awareness
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To think about thinking
Metacognition
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The type of brain waves your brain emits when you are awake
Beta waves
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The type of brain waves your brain emits that have high amplitude and caused drowsiness
Alpha waves
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A stage of sleep in which light sleep occurs
Stage one
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A stage of sleep, where bursts of sleep spindles occur
Stage two
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The type of brain waves your brain emits during deep sleep
Delta waves
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This stage of sleep is when you are in deep sleep
Stage three
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The stage in the sleep cycle, where you are in an extremely deep state of sleep and unlikely to be woken up
Stage four
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At this point in sleep, you have vivid dreams
Rapid eye movement (REM)
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How long does the typical rem sleep cycle take?
90 minutes
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Does REM last longer or shorter throughout the night?
Longer
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Our 24 hour biological clock
Circadian rhythm
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The inability to fall asleep (due to stress/anxiety)
Insomnia
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Caused by fatigue, drugs, or alcohol. Typically happens naturally with children.
Sleepwalking
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Characterized by extreme nightmares, not in REM sleep typical in children
Night terrors
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Falling asleep, uncontrollably, and out of nowhere (due to deficiency in orexin)
Narcolepsy
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When you stop breathing suddenly while asleep (typically due to obesity)
Sleep apnea
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The series that dreaming is gratification of unconscious, desires, and needs
Freud’s unconscious wish fulfillment
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The hidden meaning of dreams
Latent content
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The obvious storyline of a dream
Manifest content
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When the brain produces random bursts of energy, stimulating lodged, memories- dreams start random then develop meaning
Activation synthesis
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An altered state of consciousness where the individual becomes more suggestible
Hypnosis
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What can hypnosis do for you?
Reduce pain help you relax give you superhuman strength make you regress and make you do things against your will
It can: reduce pain and help you relax
It cannot: give you superhuman strength make you regress or make you do things against your will
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These types of drugs trigger dopamine to release in the brain
Psychoactive drugs
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Alcohol, barbiturates, tranquilizers, opiates, and narcotics are all examples of this type of drug
Depressants
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Amphetamines, cocaine, MDMA, caffeine, nicotine, and ecstasy or all examples of this type of drug
Stimulants
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LSD and marijuana are two different examples of this type of drug
Hallucinogens
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Needing more of a drug to achieve the same effect
Tolerance
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Becoming addicted to the drug and must have to have it to avoid withdrawal symptoms
Dependence
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Psychological and physiological symptoms associated with the sudden stoppage of drug use. Typically unpleasant and can potentially kill you
Withdrawal
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Brings about a response without needing to be learned (food)
Unconditioned stimulus (US)
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A response that naturally occurs without training (salivate)
Unconditioned response (UR)
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Stimulus that normally doesn’t evoke response (bell)
Neutral response (NS)
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Once neutral stimulus that now brings about a response (bell)
Conditioned stimulus (CS)
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Response that after conditioning follows a CS (salivate)
Conditioned response (CR)
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Timing of the pairing NS/CS must be presented immediately before the US
Contiguity
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The process of learning the response pairing
Acquisition
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A previously conditioned response that dies out overtime
Extinction
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After a period of time, the CR comes back out of nowhere
Spontaneous recovery
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CR to like stimuli (similar sounding bell)
Generalization
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CR to only the CS
Discrimination
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Neural basis of memory- connections are strengthened overtime with repeated stimulation (more firing of neurons)
Long-term potentiation
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Taking information out of storage within the brain
Retrieval
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Remembering what you’ve been told without cues (essays)
Recall
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The tendency to remember the beginning in the end of a list of the best
Serial position effect
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Remembering what you’ve been told with cues
Recognition
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Particularly vivid memories for highly important events
Flashbulb memories
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Unconsciously buried memories- are unreliable
Repressed memories
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Forgetting information because you never encoded it in the first place
Encoding failure
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The more closely retrieval cues match the way we learned the information, the better we are at remembering the info
Encoding specific principal
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Recall decreases rapidly at first, then reaches a plateau after which little more is forgotten
Forgetting curve
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When old information blocks new information
Proactive interference
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When new information blocks the old
Retroactive interference
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The distortion of memory by suggestion or misinformation
Misinformation effect
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When amnesia moves forward (forgetting new information)
Anterograde amnesia
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When amnesia moves backwards (forgetting old info)
Retrograde amnesia
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It disease caused by the destruction of the acetylcholine in the hippocampus
Alzheimer’s disease
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The smallest unit of sound (ch in chat)
Phonemes
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The smallest unit that carries meaning in a language (syllable)
Morpheme
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Rules in a language that enable us to communicate
Grammar
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Set of rules by which we derive (adding ED makes something past tense)
Semantics
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Rules for combining words into sentences (White House versus casa Blanca)
Syntax
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The first stage of speech were infants, make unintelligible noises
Babbling stage
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When an infant is able to say one word (duh)
One word stage
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The stage in which an infant is able to say two words or more (duh duh)
Two words stage
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When kids repeat what they hear, but they don’t do it perfectly
Imitation
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A grammar mistake, where children overuse certain morphemes (I go-ed to the park)
Overregularization
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The conditioning type to reinforce language use
Operant conditioning
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The theory that language is innate, and we are all predisposed to learn it
Inborn Universal grammar
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Period of time where something must be learned or else it cannot ever happen (children must learn in a language when they are young)
Critical period
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Language influences the way we think
Linguistic determinism
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Mental categories used to group objects, events, and characteristics
Concepts
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All instances of a concept are compared to an ideal example (what you first think of)
Prototype
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Step-by-step strategies that guarantee a solution (formula)
Algorithms
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A shortcut strategy (rule of thumb)
Heuristics
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Making inferences based on your experience (like a prototype) like assuming someone must be a librarian because they are quiet
Representative heuristics
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Relying on the availability to judge the frequency of something (overestimating death due to plane crashes due to recent events)
Availability heuristics
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Keep using one strategy and cannot think outside of the box
Functional fixedness
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Tendency of one’s pre-existing beliefs to distort logical reasoning by making invalid conclusions
Belief bias
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The tendency to clean to our beliefs in the face on contrary evidence
Belief perseverance
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Data driven decisions general to specific
Inductive reasoning
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Driven by logic specific to general
Deductive reasoning
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The ability to think about many different things all at once
Divergent thinking
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Complex behaviors have fixed patterns and are not learned (explains animal motivation)
Instinct
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Physiological need creates aroused tension (drive) that motivates you to satisfy the need (driven by homeostasis: equilibrium)
Driver reduction
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Unlearned Drive based on survival (hunger, thirst)
Primary Drive
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Learn drives (wealth or success)
Secondary drive
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Humans aim to seek a state which makes easier tasks= more arousal, and harder tasks= less
Optimum arousal
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Theory, derived by Maslow, needs lower in the pyramid have priority over needs higher in the pyramid
Hierarchy of needs
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Physiological needs are on which level of the Maslow hierarchy of needs pyramid
The first level
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Safety needs are on which level of the Maslow hierarchy of needs pyramid
The second level
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Love and belonging are on which level of the Maslow hierarchy of needs pyramid
The third level
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Esteem is on which level of the Maslow hierarchy of needs pyramid
The fourth level
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Self actualization is on which level of the Maslow hierarchy of needs pyramid
The fifth level
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Inner motivation, you do it because you like it or you want to
Intrinsic motivation
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Motivation to obtain a reward (trophy)
Extrinsic motivation
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Classical conditioning involves cognitive processes
Contingency model: Rescorla and Wagner
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Innate predispositions can allow classical conditioning to occur in one trial (food poisoning)
Condition taste adversion (John Garcia)
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Conditioned a fear in a baby (only two counter condition or removed later on)
Counterconditioning; little Albert and John Watson
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Who was the major pioneer of operant conditioning?
BF Skinner
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Behaviors followed by positive outcomes are strengthened and negative outcomes weaken a behavior
Law of effect (thorndike)
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Adding something nice to increase a behavior
Positive reinforcement
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Taking away something bad or annoying to increase a behavior
Negative reinforcement
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Innately satisfying rewards (food and water)
Primary reinforcers
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Everything else that can be given as a reward (stickers, high-fives, etc)
Secondary reinforcers
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A type of secondary reinforcer that can be exchanged for other stuff (game tokens or money)
Token reinforcer
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Respond to similar stimulus for rewards
Generalization
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Stimulus signals when behavior will or will not be reinforced (lights on means response are accepted)
Discrimination
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The same as classical conditioning where you can suddenly have the reinforced behavior come back and have it slowly go away
Extinction/spontaneous recovery
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High probability activities reinforced low probability activities (get an extra minute at recess if everyone turns in their homework)
Premack principal
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Reinforcing behaviors that are intrinsically motivating causes you to stop doing them (give a child five dollars for reading when they already like to read they’ll stop reading)
Overjustification effect
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You successive approximations to train behavior (reward, desired behavior to teach a response)
Shaping
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Tying together several behaviors
Chaining
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Receiving a reward for every response
Continuous reinforcement schedule
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Rewarding every X number of responses (every 10 envelope stuffed gets money)
Fixed ratio schedule
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Reward every X amount of time past (paycheck every two weeks)
Fixed interval schedule
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Rewarded after a random number of responses (slot machine)
Variable ratio schedule
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Rewarded after a random amount of time has passed (fishing)
Variable interval schedule
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Is variable schedules or fixed schedules more resistant to extinction?
Variable schedules are more resistant to extinction
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Children model (imitate) behaviors study used Bobo dolls to demonstrate
Social observational learning
Bandura
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Behaviors that are considered helpful
Prosocial
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Behaviors that are considered mean or inconsiderate
Antisocial
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Learning is hidden until it is useful (rats in a maze get reinforced halfway through, performance improved)
Latent learning ( tolman)
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Mental representation of an area, allows navigation if blocked
Cognitive maps
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Some learning is through simple intuition (chimps with crates to get bananas)
Insight learning (Kohler)
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No matter what you do you never get a positive outcome so you just give up (word scrambles)
Learned helplessness (Seligman)
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Getting information into the memory
Encoding
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Requires no effort to take information into memory
Automatic encoding
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Requires attention to remember certain information
Effortful encoding
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The more emphasis on meaning the deeper the processing and the better remembered
Shallow, intermediate, and deep processing
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Attaching images to information makes it easier to remember
Imagery
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We better remember what we’re interested in
Self referent encoding
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Combining different types of encoding aids in memory
Dual encoding
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Breaking information into smaller units to aid in memory
Chunking
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Shortcuts to help us remember information easier
Mnemonics
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Using letters to remember something (PEMDAS)
Acronyms
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Using locations to remember a list of items in order
Method of loci
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Where are you? Learn the information you best. Remember the information.
Context dependent memory
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The physical state you were in when learning is the way you should be when testing
Steep dependent memory
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Retaining information overtime
Storage
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Stores all incoming stimuli that you receive (first you have to be paying attention)
Sensory memory
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Visual memory lasts about 0.3 seconds
Iconic memory
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Auditory memory that usually lasts between 2 to 3 seconds
Echoic memory
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Information passes from sensory memory to STM last 30 seconds and can remember 7 to 2 items
Short term memory
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This term memory is split into two. Visual spatial memory from the iconic and phonological loop from the echoic. Combines them both before passing it.
Short term memory
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Memory that lasts a lifetime
Long-term memory
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Conscious recollection of information
Explicit/declarative
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Conscious recollection of events in the long-term memory are called what
Episodic
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Conscious recollection of facts in the long-term memory are called what
Semantic
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Unconscious recollection of information in long-term memory
Implicit/non-declarative
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What does classical conditioning fall under in long-term memory?
Implicit/non-declarative
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Information that is seen earlier primes you to remember something later on
Priming
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Skills that can be found in unconscious recollection of long-term memory are called what
Procedural
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Memory is stored, according to a hierarchy is known as what
Hierarchies
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LinkedIn memories are stored together
Semantic network
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Pre-existing mental concepts of how something should look
Schemas
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What neurotransmitter in the hippocampus is most helpful for memories
Acetylcholine (ACh)
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What part of the brain is used for procedural memories?
Cerebellum
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What are the contractions in our stomach when we’re hungry called?
Signals of hunger
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What level is maintained by the pancreas (endocrine system)?
Glucose (sugar)
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Decreases glucose (used in diabetes)
Insulin
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Released by the hypothalamus to tell us to eat
Orexin/ghrelin
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When stimulated this part of the brain makes you hungry. If lesioned you will never eat again
Lateral Hypothalamus
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When this party of the brain is stimulated you feel full. If damaged you’ll never know when to stop eating
Ventromedial hypothalamus
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Signals to the brain to reduce appetite
Leptin
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This increases risk of heart attack, hypertension, atherosclerosis, and diabetes
Obesity
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The control system that dictates his much fat you should carry- every person is different
Set point
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Eating disorder that causes weight loss of at least 15% ideal weight, distorted by body image
Anorexia
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What can overly critical parents, perfectionist tendencies, and/or social ideals potentiality cause? (Harmful)
Eating disorder
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An eating disorder characterized by a normal body weight, but they have binge-purge eating patterns (eat massive amounts the gets sick)
Bulimia
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Simulation to this party of the brain increases sexual behavior, destruction leads to sexual inhibition
Hypothalamus
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This gland monitors, initiates, and restricts hormones
Pituitary Gland
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Predominately male hormone
Testosterone
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Predominately female hormone
Estrogen
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Excitement phase, plateau, orgasm, refractory period (then resolution phase for men) are All part of what?
Sexual response pattern
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The first researcher to conduct studies in sex; suggested that prone water promiscuous and created a scale of homosexuality
Alfred Kinsey
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Biological roots, sexuality differences found in the brain. Twins are both more likely to be ____ and sons more likely to be too
Homosexuality (Gay)
