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1
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A fiber extending from the cell body which carries messages to other neurons

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Axon

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2
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Fibers projecting from the neuron that receive impulses or messages from other neurons

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Dendrites

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3
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A covering over the axon

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Myelin

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4
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Controls sensory output to muscles in the body

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Frontal

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5
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Receives visual information from the eyes

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Occipital

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6
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Controls receiving touch

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Parietal

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7
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Receives information from the ears

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Temporal

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8
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Controls heart and respiratory rate

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Medulla

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9
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Connects brain stem and the cerebellum

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Pons

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10
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Reflex center for pain, vision, and hearing

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Midbrain

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11
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Recognition of less critical sensations of pain, temperature, touch

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Thalamus

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12
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Regulates appetite, thirst, sex drive, sleep, etc.

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Hypothalamus

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13
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Computer, directs (filters stimuli) stimuli to high brain centers

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Reticular activation system

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14
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Controls body coordination - balance

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Cerebellum

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15
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Mediator for reflex activity

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Spinal cord

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16
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Higher brain center

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Cerebrum

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17
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Controls voluntary muscles, controlling most body movements

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Somatic system

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18
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Controls involuntary muscles including the heart, stomach, skin, and the glands
(Fight or flight)

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Autonomic system

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19
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Causes body to relax

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Parasympathetic

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20
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Talking with body language, eye contact, facial expressions, etc.

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Nonverbal communication

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21
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Experimenter produces a subject’s response whenever desired by presenting an UCS to form a new association between CS and the CR
(Pavlov)

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Classical Conditioning

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22
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Experimenter takes a response that the subject already has and strengthens it by reinforcing it every time it occurs
(Edward Thorndike)

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Operant Conditioning

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23
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Explorer

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Sensory-motor

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24
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Symbols stand for objects

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Preoperation

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25
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Children master space concepts

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Concrete operations

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26
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Ability to reason abstractly

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Formal operations

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27
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Emphasis is practical solving abilities

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Structuralism

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28
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Focuses on speed, capacity, and efficiency

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Information-processing

29
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The concern is practical

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Psychometric approach

30
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Below normal general intellectual functioning beginning before age eighteen which is associated with impairment in adaptive behavior

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Mental retardation

31
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List 6 stages that parents of a retarded child go through.

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Awareness of some kind of problem
Denial
Recognition that the child is retarded
Search for a cause
Search for a cure
Acceptance
32
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An attitude is made up of:

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Thoughts, feeling, and predisposition to act upon that thought and feeling

33
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Development of reflexes and responses

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Sensorimotor stage

Piaget

34
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Stage of egocentrism

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Preoperational

Piaget

35
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Logical thinking develops

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Concrete operations

Piaget

36
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Abstract thinking

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Formal operations

Piaget

37
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Preschool years

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Punishment

Kohlberg

38
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Desire to fulfill needs

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Reciprocity

Kohlberg

39
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Approval of others paramount

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Good girl/boy

Kohlberg

40
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Social order important

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Law and order

Kohlberg

41
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Begins in mother soon after delivery

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Postpartum depression

42
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Infant refused to eat

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Marasmus

43
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Stage before birth

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Prenatal

44
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First 15 months

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Infancy

45
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Ages 6-12

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Elementary

46
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In early adolescence, allegiance is switched from

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Parents to peers

47
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Subjective perspective of the individual becomes important

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Trait theory

48
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Personality linked to physical

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Personal-construct theory

49
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Personalities the result of prior conditioning

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Behaviorists theory

50
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Naturally developing toward wholeness

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Humanistic theory

51
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The center of a cell body

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Nucleus

52
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Banishment of memories

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Repression

53
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Attribute one’ swishes to another

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Projection

54
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Isolate emotions from college scouts awareness

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Isolation

55
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Use if intellectual thinking to avoid unconscious conflicts

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Intellectualization

56
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Justify unacceptable attitude

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Rationalization

57
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Adopting feelings contrary to real feelings (smoke screen)

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Reaction formation

58
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Transfer emotions from one object to another

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Displacement

59
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Model your values after another

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Identification

60
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Retreat to actions of early childhood

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Regression

61
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To remain at a certain level of emotional development

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Fixation

62
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To carry out an unconscious act to negate a previous mistake

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Undoing

63
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Striving to make up for inferiority feelings overcompensate

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Compensation

64
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In socially unacceptable ways

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Overcompensation

65
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Accepting unacceptable drives

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Sublimation

66
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Deceive self about true desires

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Substitution

67
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Store attitudes in separate departments of brain

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Compartmentalization

68
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Deny the existence of something disturbing

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Denial

69
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Concern for the well being of others

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Altruism

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