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1
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Edward titchener

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Structuralism

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William James

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First American psychologist

Stream of consciousness

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Behaviorism

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Study of behavior and it’s environmental determinants

Pavlov dog salvation test

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Psychoanalysis

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Study of the unconscious aspects of mind

Freud

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Cognitive psychology

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Study of the mental processes involved in knowing how thoughts influence behavior

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Neurobiological approach

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Study of the brain and nervous system and how they interact

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Evolutionary psychology

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Adaptations

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Cross-cultural approach

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Can only understand behavior in the context of culture, ethnicity and gender

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Representative sample

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Good representative of population (difficult to get)

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Convenience sample

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Most used
Participants who are available to be researched
Biased because doesn’t represent population well

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Independent variable

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Being manipulated

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Dependent variable

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Gets the impact

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Experimental group

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Gets experimented on/changed

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Control group

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Comparison group

Nothing done to them

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Random assignment

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How participants get assigned to groups

Looks like population

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Experimenter expectancy

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An experimenter’s ideas and beliefs before a study may impact experiment

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Confirmation bias

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Tendency to see results in line with your hypothesis

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Demand characteristics

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Subtle clues that an experimenter might give off to research subjects that impacts the study

Orne crazy classroom study

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Hawthorne effect

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Company that tried to increased productivity. Employees became aware, reacted, then went back

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Selective attrition

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When subjects drop out of subject pool

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21
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Belmont report

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Respect for persons
Benefits > cost
Equal rights in research

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Informed consent

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Must tell subject idea of study

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Freedom from coercion

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Not allowed to pressure someone into being subject

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Deception

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Not allowed to deceive unless you tell subject after

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Debriefing

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Experimenter has to explain study AFTER to subject

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Nerve cells (neurons)

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Half of brain’s volume

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Glial cells

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Speeds up communication between neurons

Holds neurons in place, feeds and removes waste

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Sensory neurons

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Brings sense to brain

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Motor neurons

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Brain sends to body

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Interneurons

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Everything else

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Dendrites

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Receive info from other nerve cells

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Cell body

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Where info gets processed

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Axon

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Sends info out

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Presynaptic terminal

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End of neuron

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35
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Resting potential

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Negative charge inside cell

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36
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Post synaptic potentials

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Voltage change at a receptor site on a postsynaptic cell membrane

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Excitatory PSP

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Depolarizes (makes it less negative)

DECREASES action potential

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Inhibitory PSP

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Hyperpolarizes (makes more negative)

INCREASES action potential

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Action potential

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Voltage spike

Positive ions in, negative ions out

Cell becomes temporarily permeable

Triggers release of neurotransmitter

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Synapses

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Junctions between neurons

Impulse must travel across

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Agonist

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Blocks/slows down trip take

Facilitates neural communication

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Antagonist

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Increases action of neurotransmitters

Speeds up the reuptake process

Blocks receptor sites

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Acetylcholine

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Memory, motor functioning at body level, attention

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Norepinephrine

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Wakefulness/alertness, circadian rhythms

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Dopamine

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Motor behavior at brain level, learning, AWARD, Parkinson’s disease

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Seratonin

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Emotion, depression, anxiety, sleep/dreaming, appetite

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GABA

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PRIMARY INHIBITORY NEUROTRANSMITTER

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Glutamate

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Primary excitatory neurotransmitter

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Endorphins

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Relief of pain, pleasure

50
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Central nervous system

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Brain and spinal cord

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Somatic nervous system

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Senses and muscles

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Autonomic nervous system

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Internal organs

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Sympathetic nervous system

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Parasympathetic nervous system

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CAT

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X-Ray of brain

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MRI

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Can clearly identify structures of brain

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EEG

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Electrodes placed on scalp to monitor brain activity

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PET

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Inject radioactive sugar to see active parts of the brain

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fMRI

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MEI scanner used to see a FUNCTIONS of blood change and activity in brain

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Brain stem

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Life support, heart rate, respiration

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Cerebellum

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Simple learning, coordination, balance

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Pons

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Arousal, sleep, heart rate, respiration

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Medulla

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Heart rate, respiration

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Reticular activating system

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Hypothalamus

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Hunger, appetite, growth, hormones, sexual arousal/responses

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Hippocampus

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Amygdala

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Emotional arousal

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Thalamus

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Relay station, signals pass through

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Basal ganglia

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Movement, behavio

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Occipital lobe

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Parietal lobe

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Skin senses

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Temporal lobe

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Hearing processes

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Frontal lobe

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Motor function, organization and planning

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Hemispatial neglect

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Only detect part of body

75
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Prosopagnosia

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Can’t detect faces

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Corpus callosum

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Fibers that connects L&R hemispheres of brain

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Left hemisphere

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Step by step processes (language, writing)

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Right hemisphere

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Parallel (all-at-once) processing (perception of space, emotion, music and artistic ability)

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Awake

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Alpha (relaxing) and beta (alert)

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Stage 1 sleep

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Stage 2 sleep

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Spindles, K complex

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Stage 3 sleep

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Delta activity

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Stage 4 sleep

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REM sleep

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Beta (looks like awake)

85
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Alcohol

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Depressant
Works on GABA system
Dopamine makes it pleasurable

86
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Barbiturates

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Reduces anxiety, induced sleep. GABA system affected

87
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Caffeine

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Stimulant

Releases glutamine - stimulant

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Nicotine

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Works acetylcholine system

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Wilhelm wundt

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Father of modern psychology

Introspection

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