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What are the perspectives

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Behaviorist , psychodynamic, humanism

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What are the goals of psychology

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Description, explanation, prediction, and control

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What is a case study

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Where an individual is studied in great detail

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What is an experiment

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Direct way to test a hypothesis about cause and effect

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What is a correlation

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Relationships between 2 or more variables

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What is positive correlation

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Increase in one variable, the other variable tends to decrease

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What is a negative correlation

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Decrease in one of the variables

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What is the observer effect

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When someone is watching they act different

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what is top down processing

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using pre existing knowledge

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what is bottom up processing

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using smaller pieces of knowledge to complete the perception.

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who was Erst Weber

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what was the smallest difference you could detect

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what do rods and cones do?

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turns light into neural signals that the brain can read

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cones

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responsible for light adaptation

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rods

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sensitive to brightness

only see black and white

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what is the trichromatic theory?

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we have 3 primary colors

red,green,blue

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what is the opponent process theory

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the theory saying we have 4 primary colors

red green blue and yellow

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what is sensory adaptation

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less responsive to unchanging stimuli unconscious

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what is your kinesthetic sense

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location of body parts in relation to each other

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what is your vestibular sense

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sense of balance

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what are the 5 monocular cues

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1. same size with convey depth if one is smaller than the other 
2 overlap 
3 ariel perspective 
4 texture gradient 
5 linear perspective
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what is perception

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when the brain takes all the sensations people feel and interprets them into something meaningful

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what are binocular cues

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requires the use of 2 eyes

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what is absolute threshold

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the lowest level of stimuli a person can detect

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what are the theory’s of sleep

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adaptive
evolution controls sleep pattern
restorative
you need sleep to function

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what is rem sleep

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dreaming voluntary, muscles don’t move

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what is NREM

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deep restful sleep

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what is latent content

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true meaning was hidden and expressed through symbols

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what is manifest content

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the dream itself

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what are dreams

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stories that happen in rem or NREM

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what is the social cognitive explanation

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copying actions, playing the roles expected of them

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what is shaping

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reinforcing small steps until the goal is reached

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what is a ucs

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unlearned naturally occurring similis

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what is a UCR

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unlearned naturally occurring response

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what is a CS

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originally a neutral stimulus becomes able to produce a response

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what is a CR

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learned reflex response to a CS

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what is a primary reinforcer

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it satisfies a basic need

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what is a secondary reinforcer

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associated with primary reinforcers in the past

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what is latent learning

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leaning could happen without reinforcement

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classical conditioning

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doing things over and over and over

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what is anterograde and retrograde amnesia

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anterograde is temporary and not transferred into memory

retrograde is loss of memory for a certain period of time

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what is retroactive and proactive interference

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retroactive: new messes with old

Proactive old messes with new

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what is the serial position effect

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your brain gets overwhelmed and forgets the older information like lists

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what are phonemes and morphemes

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smallest unit of speech sound

smallest meaningful parts of language

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what are heuristics and algorithms

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rule of thumb or educated guess

math formulas

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what is functional fixedness

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doing things differently that normal

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what are mental sets

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doing things that have worked in the past

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what is the confirmation bias

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searching for things that you want to hear

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what are extrinsic and intrinsic emotions

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doing something because they get something

doing something because they want to

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display rules

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learned ways of controlling displays of emotion

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