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Who created the first psychology lab?

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Wilhem Wundt

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Where was the first psychology lab located?

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Leipzig, Germany

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What did Wundt seek to measure?

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“Atoms of the mind”

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What school of thought did Titchener create?

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Structuralism

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What were some things Titchener did during his studies?

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Introspection, used introspection reports, relied on “self report”

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What school of thought did James study?

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Functionalism

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Who influenced Functionalism?

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Charles Darwin

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Who was the first female APA President?

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Mary Whiton Calkins

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Who did Mary Whiton Calkins study with?

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William James

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Who was the second female APA president?

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Mary Floy Washburn

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Who wrote “The Animal Mind”?

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Mary Floy Washburn

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Who did Mary Floy Washburn study with?

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Titchener but was barred from experimental psychology organization

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Definition of behaviorism

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Scientific study of observable behavior

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When did behaviorism become a major force in psychology?

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1960’s

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Who conducted the Little Albert experiment?

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John Watson and Rosalie Rayner

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Who studied classical conditioning?

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John B Watson

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Who studied operant conditioning?

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BF skinner

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18
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Psychoanalytic theory is also called?

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Freudian Psychology

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What does Freudian psychology focus on?

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Emphasized ways unconscious thought processes and emotional responses to childhood experiences affect later behavior

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What is humanistic psychology

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A historically significant perspective that revived interest in the study of mental processes

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Who led humanistic psychology?

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Carl rogers and Abraham Maslow

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When did the cognitive revolution begin?

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1960’s

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What is the interdisciplinary field of cognitive psychology?

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Cognitive neuroscience

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What is cognitive neuroscience?

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Ties the science of the mind and the science of the brain (cognitive psychology and neuroscience)

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What is cognitive psychology?

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Explores ways which information is perceived processed and remembered and to study the cognitive roots of psychological disorders

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What is the focus in evolutionary psychology?

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How the natural selection of traits has promoted survival of our genes

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Hindsight bias

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Overconfidence and our tendency to perceive patterns in random events illustrate why we cannot rely solely on intuition

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Hypothesis

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Testable prediction

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Theory

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Explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events

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30
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What are the sub fields of psychology?

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Biological, industrial organizational, personality, social, developmental, cognitive, counseling, psychiatrist, counseling, community, clinical

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Counseling psychology

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Help people cope with challenges and crisis

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Clinical psychologist

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Assesses and treat people with mental, emotional, behavior disorders

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Psychiatrist

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As a medical doctor may prescribe medicine and provide psychotherapy

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Community psychologist

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Work to create social and physical environments healthy for all

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Case study

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An observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles

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Naturalistic observation

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Descriptive technique of observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to change or control the situation

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Survey

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Descriptive technique for obtaining the self reported attitudes or behaviors of a group (random sampling)

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Correlation

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An observation that two traits or attributes are related to each other

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Correlation coefficient

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A measure of how closely two factors vary together or how well you can predict a change in one from observing a change in the other

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Positive correlation

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0-+1.00 direct relationships- things increase and decrease together

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Negative correlation

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0–1.00 an inverse relationship one increases other decreases

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Experimental group

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Person receives treatment

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Control group

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Members do not receive treatment

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Double blind procedure

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Participants and administer unaware of treatment

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Placebo affect

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Effect involves results caused by expectations alone

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Independent variable

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Factor that is manipulated the variable whose effect is being studied

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Confounding variable

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Factor other than the independent variable that might produce an effect

48
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3 places helping with ethics in study’s

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APA,BPS,universities

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What are the ethics codes that you must follow when performing a study?

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Fully debriefing
Keep information confidential
Informed consent
Protect them from harm

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Consciousness

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Awareness of self and environment

51
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Cognitive neuroscience

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Interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with our mental processes

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Change blindness

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Failing to notice changes in your environment

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Inattentional blindness

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Failure to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere

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Selective attention

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The focusing on conscious awareness on particular stimulus (multi-tasking)

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Dual processing

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The principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks

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Circadian rhythm

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The biological clock (deals with temperature and wakefulness)

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What is REM sleep?

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Rapid eye movement- deepest sleep- brain energized dream during this stage-90 minutes

58
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The order of the sleep cycle waves

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Beta
Alpha
R.E.M.
NREM-1,2,3

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Suphrachiasmatic nucleus

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Suppress the pineal’s glands production of the sleeping hormone melatonin

60
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What are the theories of why we sleep

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Next day problem solving
Protective role
Restoring and repairing, strength numeral connection
Growth hormone

61
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insomnia

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Reoccurring problems falling or staying asleep

62
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Narcolepsy

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Falling asleep at random times suddenly go into R.E.M.

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Sleep apnea

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Stopping of breathing while you sleep momentary awakens especially in overweight men

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Night terrors

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High arousal and appearance of being terrified target children during first few hours of NREM3

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Dreams

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Sequence of images and emotions passing through a sleeping persons mind

66
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What do dreams usually incorporate and do we remember them

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Previous days non sexual experience R.E.M. DREAMS ARE BIZZARE and nah

67
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Psychoactive drug

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A chemical substance that alters perceptions and moods

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Addiction

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Compulsive craving of drugs or certain behaviors despite known harmful consequences

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Nicotine

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Amphetamine- highly addictive- diminishes appetite, boosts alertness, calms anxiety, smoking correlates with higher depression

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Cocaine

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Amphetamine- temporary increased alertness, leads to crash and agitated depression, form consumed is key

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Methamphetamine

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Over time reduces dopamine level, stimulates brain cell enhances mood and energy irribality, insomnia, hypertension

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Ecstasy

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Short term health risks and long term harm to serotonin producing neuron aka hug drug molly

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LSD

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Hallucinogens- users mood and expectations affects how it affects you- europhia detachment from pain

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Marijuana

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Contains THC amplifies sensory sensitivity, impairs motor coordination, reaction time disrupts memory

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