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psychology is a … science, measuring variables that do not seem to be measurable (e.g. attraction, anger)

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creative

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operational definition: defining terms for particular

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contexts

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survey is the …, not …

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methodology; questionnaire

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frontal lobe controls most complex … and …

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human thoughts; behaviors

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hind brain controls … and …

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hearbeat; breathing

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midbrain (aka …): controls …; … or …; …

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reptilian brain; emotions; fight; flight; memory

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front brain/forebrain: inhibits

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emotions

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inferential research is trying to predict through … and …

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statistics; patterns

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interviews give more …, but it takes more …

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in-depth information; time

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random sampling is necessary because people arrange themselves in

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noncoincidental ways

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The closer a correlation is to 1, the … the correlation

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stronger

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perfect bell curve occurs when …, …, and … are the same

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mean; mode; median

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when mode, median, and mean differ, the curve gets …
… will be mode
median is … between … and …
mean is at the … of the bell curve

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skewed; highest point; midpoint; mean; mode; plateau point

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even though mean is the central tendency, it represents the … bc …..

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least amount of people; outliers inflate/decrease

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negative skew: tail of bell curve goes toward … (…)

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negative; left

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positive skew: tail of bell curve goes toward … (…)

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positive; right

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wilhelm wundt’s contributions: … and … as important aspects of psych, godfather of psych, interested in …

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observations; experiments; perception

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central area for study of psych: …

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germany

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theorized that humans had no control over …: … impacted behavior, undermines notion of …

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behavior; environment; free will

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mammals are … creatures–seeks attention, … is significant–> idea that … defines … is one school of thought

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bonding; attraction; attention; environment

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freud particularly interested in .., because he viewed it as the mechanism by which we sustain the species

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sex

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we are driven by: …, …, …, …, …, etc. contributes to importance of … in society

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water; heat; pleasure; food; sleep; money

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humanism argued that … does exist: there are things that drive us towards particular goals: not necessarily for a …

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free will; practical pupose

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heat + overpopulation always leads to

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aggression

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cognitive view of aggression: interpreting neutral signals as ... 
social-cultural view: ...; ... 
biological view: ... 
psychodynamic: people raised in ... 
evolutionary: ... behind aggression
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threats; urban societies; poverty; testosterone; aggressive homes; defense mechanism

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people learn either through … or …

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experience; hand-me-downs

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humans adapt …

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behaviorally

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behavior can change when things become … –makes you want it more

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inaccessible

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phrenology is a … that was …, but it did indicate the truth of localization of function

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pseudoscience; disproved

30
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cell body holds

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nucleus

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myelin sheath insulates tail to prevent …

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signal from escaping

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terminal branches contains terminal … that hold …

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buttons; neurotransmitters

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region in between neurons is …

… is the actual connection between adjacent neuron

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synaptic gap; synapse

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… neuron is that which precedes the synapse, the one that comes after is …

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pre-synaptic; post-synaptic

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information comes through …

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dendrites

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neurotransmitters spill into …, … uses these to generate an electrical signal sent through the axon to the terminal branches

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synaptic gap; post-synaptic neuron

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SSRIs: medication; …

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selective serotonin reputake inhibitors

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SSRIs stop … of serotonin, such that the signal … and person is …

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reuptake; continues; happy

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GABA: neurotransmitter that makes you

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tired

40
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every medication influences the …

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action potential

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pain medication is …–> fills in dendrites so pain signal cannot continue

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antagonist

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fact that amygdala and hippocampus are close: things that are very emotional are

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remembered well

43
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face takes up a lot of cortical space because it experiences

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all five senses

44
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brocas area keeps speech

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regulated

45
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left visual field goes to … for both eyes; right visual field goes to … side for both eyes

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right side; left side

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