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1
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Average weight of one amino acid

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110 daltons

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crystalized intelligence

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ability to use skills, knowledge, experience. Doesn’t equate to memory, but does rely on accessing information from long-term memory. Would be found in implicit memory

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Is the ability to acquire new declarative memory affected by age?

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yes, the older you get the harder it is to acquire new declarative memory

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social reproduction

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reproducing the social inequality across generations

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social capital

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build-up of reliable, useful social networks

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cultural capital

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knowledge, behaviors, and skills that demonstrate cultural competence

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front stage self

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how we behave and act when we have an audience

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backstage self

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what we do when no one is looking

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cultural transmission

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process through which cultural elements, in the form of attitudes, values, and behavioral scripts, are passed onto individuals

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culture lag

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culture takes time to catch up to technological innovations

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proximal stimulus

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stimulation that actually occurs when sensory receptors are activated- neural activity. Light, heat, touch, sound, etc.

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Distal stimulus

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actual stimulus or real object in the world that is converted into proximal stimulus.

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similarity gestalt principle

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things that look alike are more likely to be grouped together

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continuity gestalt principle

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percieve connected objects and lines as uninterrupted

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15
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false memory

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innacurate but expressed with extreme confidence

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operationally define a variable

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create a method in which the variable can be measured, studied, and delivered.

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semantic memory

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general world knowledge

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18
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proactive interference

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can’t remember new stuff

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retroactive interference

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can’t remember old stuff

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sensitive/critical period

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identifies point in early development that can have significant influence on physiological or behavioral functioning later in life.

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incentive theory

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how factors OUTSIDE of the individual can motivate. Drive theory centers around factors inside the individual.

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intersectionality

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interconnected nature of social categorizations like race, class, and gender as they apply to individuals or groups. Create overlapping and interdependent system of discrimination and disadvantage.

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looking glass self

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our reflection of how we think we appear to others.

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average weight of an amino acid

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110 daltons

25
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independent variable

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varied by the researcher in order to determine effect.

26
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What shows that short term and long term memory are separate systems?

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Primacy and recency effect.

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Demographic groups

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defined by criteria such as education, nationality, religion, ethnicity.

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Facial expressions are generally ________, while postures and gestures are not

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universally recognized

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unconditioned response

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unlearned (and untaught) response that occurs naturally in reaction to unconditioned stimulus.

30
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projectoin

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unconscious self-defense mechanism characterized by someone attributing their own problems to another person or object

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encoding specificity effect

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enhanced memory when testing takes place under the same conditions as learning.

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shaping

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the form of an existing response is gradually changed across successive trials toward a desired target behavior by reinforcing exact segments of behavior

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binocular depth cues

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visual information taken in by two eyes that enable a sense of depth perception

34
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retinal disparity

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each of our eyes see the world from a slightly different angle, allowing depth perception

35
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diathesis stress model

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explains a disorder as the result of an interaction between a pre-dispositional vulnerability and a stress caused by life experience.

36
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variable ratio result

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leads to tons of responses, no predictable pauses

37
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social stigma

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disapproval of a person or group based on perceived social differences

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health disparity

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preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities for optimum health experienced by socially disadvantaged populations

39
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ethnicity classifies by ______, race by ______

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culture, physical characteristics

40
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Reward system found in the

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limbic system

Nucleus accumbens, hypothalamus amygdala, fornix

41
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Accomodation

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eyes adjusting, or changing an existing schema in order to fit new information

42
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interposition

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one object covers another so we percieve depth

43
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valid

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test measures what it’s supposed to

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reliable

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tool produces stable and consistent results

45
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negative priming

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implicit memory effect in which prior exposure to a stimulus unfavorably influences response to the same stimulus. Causes a delay in response time. Marker example.

46
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Alzheimers

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memory loss, poor judgment, loss of initiative, taking a long time to complete tastks, repeating questions, wandering, losing things

47
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parallel processing.

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SPACE. TIME. FREQUENCY.

48
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what colors are the most absorbed?

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the color complementary to the one you see

49
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how to figure out complementary colors

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ROYGBV

50
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visible light spectrum

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390-700 nm (purple to red)

51
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draw guanine and adanine

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draw

52
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lower Kd means

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higher affinity

53
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phosphodiester linkeage

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links nucleotides in DNA

54
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RNA in cytosol

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is broken down very quickly. Translated and then degraded.

55
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signal sequence domains

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leader sequence (located at N terminal)

56
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How do all cells differ?

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nuclear factors (transcription factors) that regulate which parts of the identical DNA will be expressed. Give rise to function

57
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principle quantum number

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measure of the approximate radial SIZE, not shape, of an electron cloud

58
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cDNA

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synthesized from ssRNA

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