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7 multiple intelligence

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Linguistic 
Verbal
Bodily
Kinesthetic
Spacial
Visual
Interpersonal
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Humanistic

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Potential for human growth .

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Psychoanalysis

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Unconscious motives.

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Behaviorism

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Human & animal behavior can be explained in terms of conditioning

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Structuralism

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Interpretation of aspects , human cognition , behavior , culture.

Structure of conscious and mind.

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Functionalism

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Emphasize the function for behavior .

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Phrenology

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Study of the shape & size of the brain

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William James

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Functionalism

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Sigmund Freud

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Psychoanalysis

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Structuralism ( 1st lab in Germany 1879)

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John B Watson

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School of behaviorism

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B.F Skinner

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Psychologist , behaviorist ( radical behaviorism )

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Joseph Gall

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Phenology

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Longitude cross sectional

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Study same group of people

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Cross sectional

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Different groups of people being studied

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Double blind study

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Neither subject or individuals ruining the test know which subject is in the control group

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Single blind study

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Subject don’t know of they are in an experimental or control group

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Control group

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Group is separated from the test

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Experimental group

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Experimental procedures are performed

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Dependent variable

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Experiment predicts will be affected by manipulation or independent variable

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Independent variable

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Variable that an experiment manipulates

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Correlation

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Relationship between 2 things
Strongly related

Further from 0 the stronger

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Coefficient of correlation

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Strengthen or a relationship , linearly

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Self fulfilling prophecy

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Predication that directly/indirectly caused itself to become true

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Monochronic

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Done in order , on time

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Polychronic

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Relationship over time

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Individualistic

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Focus on themselves &families

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Collectivist

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View themselves as members of groups

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Electra complex

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Daughter desire for father

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Oedipus

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Sons desire for mother

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Thalamus

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Relays sensory messages to cerebral cortex

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Pons

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Sleeping, walking, dreaming

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Medulla

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Breathing, Heart Rate

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Reticular activating system

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arousal

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cerebellum

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regulates movement and balance

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Hypothalamus Gland

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involved in drives viral to survival

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Pituitary Gland

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Small endocrine gland which releases hormones

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Amygdala

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Arousal, regulation of emotion

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Hippocampus

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storage of new info into memory

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Cerebrum

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largest brain structure

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central nervous system

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spinal cord

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peripheral nervous system

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handles central nervous system input & output

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Sensation

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detection of physical energy emitted or reflected

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Perception

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brain organizes and interprets sensory

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IQ test

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identify slower learners

MA/CA X 100

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hindsight

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when you think events are more predictable than they really are

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confirmation

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tendency for people to favor information. (confirms what your saying only)

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Forgetting

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Decay, consolidation, replacement, cue dependent , interference, repression

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3 box model of memory

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sensory,long & short term memory

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Sensory can last:

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visual: half second
Auditory: 2 seconds

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Long term can hold

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unlimited

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Short term memory can remember

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at most 7 things

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unconditioned stimulus

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unconditionally, naturally, and automatically triggers a response

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Conditioned Stimulus

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after becoming associated with the unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a conditioned response.

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Conditioned Response

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learned response to the previously neutral stimulus

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unconditioned Response

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unlearned response that occurs naturally in response to the unconditioned stimulus

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Watson & Rayner

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wanted to give albert a phobia, then take it out

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Ivan Pavlov

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Dog salivation experiment

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All or none law

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strength of a nerve or fiber that responds

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nature vs nurture

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relative importance of an individual innate qualities
nature- genetics
nurture- environment

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Telegraphic speech

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speech during the 2 word stage

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psychology

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study of mental function of behavior, effect on the person by an organism, physical mental state

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occipital lobes

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contain visual cortex

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parietal lobes

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somatosensory cortex,pressure,pain,ouch

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