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FINAL EXAM Flashcards

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Autism

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Developmental disorder, it develops in the first 3 years in your life. It affects the brains normal developmental of social and communication skills.

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Attribution theory

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We blame outside environmental factors for why we act like we do.

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Fundamental Attribution Error

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We automatically blame someone’s personality for their negative actions instead of other environmental factors.

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Mere Exposure Effect

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People tend to prefer or like something because they are around it or familiar with it.

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Cognitive Behavior Therapy

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a form of psychotherapy that emphasizes the important role of thinking in how we feel and we do.

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Positive reinforcement

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When somebody does something good reward them

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Negative Reinforcement

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Punish someone for doing something wrong

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Nature

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When your born with it

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Nature

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When you come what you come based on how your raised

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Major Depression

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A disorder characterized by severe negative needs or a lack of interest or normally pleasure activities

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Schizophrenia

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Split between thought and emotion, it involves altercations in thoughts, and in perceptions or in conscious

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Psychoanalysis

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A method developed by Sigmund Freud that attempts to bring contents on the unconscious conscious awareness so that conflicts can be revealed

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Social Psychology

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The study of how people are influenced by their interactions

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Conformity

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The altering of ones behaviors and opinions to match those of other people expectations

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Social Facilation

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When mere presence of others enhance performance

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Social Loafing

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The tendency for people to work less hard in a group than working alone

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Independent Variable

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The variable that is manipulated by the experimenter to examine its impact on dependent variable

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Dependent Variable

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The variable that is affected by the manipulation of independent variable

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Cones

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Retinal Cells that respond to higher levels of illumination and result of color perception

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Rods

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Retinal Cells that have lower levels of illumination and result of black and white perception

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Personality

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The characteristics thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviors that are relatively stable in a individual over time

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Personality Types

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discrete categories of people based on personality characteristics

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defense mechanism

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unconscious mental strategies that the mind uses to protect itself from distress

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cognitive dissonance

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an uncomfortable mental state due to the contradiction between two attitudes or between attitude and behavior

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Freudian theory

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3 levels of conscious, precocious, unconscious

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Super Ego

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the internalization of societal and parental standards of conduct

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Ego

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the component of personality that tries to satisfy the wishes of the ID while being responsive to the dictates of the superego

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Stress

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A pattern of behavioral, psychological, and psychological responses

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Motivation

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Factors that energize, direct, or sub stain behavior

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Extrinsic Motivation

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Motivation to preform because you get rewards like trophies.

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Intrinsic Motivation

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you do it because you love it

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Self fulfilling prophecies

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Staying positive and positive things are going to happen

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Compliance

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the tendency to agree to do things requested by others

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Foot in the door

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If people agree to do small request then they would eventually ask you to do big ones

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Door in the face

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people are more likely to do small request than a big one

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Milgram Study

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obey authority, demonstrated that average people obeyed hideous orders

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Perception

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The processing, organization and interpretation of sensory signals; it results in an internal representation of the stimulus

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Sensation

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The sense, organs detection of external stimuli, their response to the stimuli and the transmission of these responses to the brain

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learning

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a relatively enduring change in behavior, resulting from experience

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Teratogens

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environmental agents that harm embryo or fetus

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assimilation

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the process by which we place new information into a existing schema

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accommodation

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we create new schema drastically alter existing schema to include new information that otherwise wouldn’t fit into schema

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Bystander Effect

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The failure to offer help by those who observe someone in need

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reliability

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The extent in which a measure is stable and consistent over time in similar conditions

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Validity

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refers to how well a test measures what is purported to measure

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Intelligence

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knowing alot

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Classical Conditioning

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a type of learn response, a neutral object comes

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Operant Conditioning

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which consequences take action determine the likelihood that it will be preformed in future

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Encoding

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The processing of information so that it can be stored

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Storage

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The retention of encoded representations over time

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Retrieval

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the act of recalling or remembering stored information when it is needed

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Groupthink

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When your in a group and they tend to make a bad decision because everyone thinks the same

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Piaget

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he was a swiss developmental psychologist. He came up with theory of cognitive development

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Central Nervous System

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The brain and spinal cord

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Gesalt psychology

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A theory based on idea that the whole personal experience is different.

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