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Misc Flashcards

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Aaron Beck

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cognitive behavioral therapy?

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lens

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changes shape in order to adjust for distance?

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Freud’s final stage of childhood development (adolescence to adulthood)

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genital

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4
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individual psychology

overcoming inferiority complex

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Alfred Adler

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representativeness heuristic

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uses stereotypes

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a.k.a garcia effect - associating e.g.whe na subject associates a certain food with ngeative symptoms and avoids it all together: e.g. when a subject avoids carr

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taste aversion

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7
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conduction deafness

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injury to outside of eardrum

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sensorineural deafness

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damage to inside of eardrum,

i think this is the irresversible one

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id

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operates on the pleasure principle

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animism

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belife that all things are alive because they live or grow?

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correlational research

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type of research that involves evualtating the association between factors in an envirnoment

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paranoid personality disorder

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extreme distrust of others

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discrimination

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in classical conditioning, being able to distinguish between two stimuli

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14
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oral

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first state

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self-efficacy

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belief in your ability to achieve a goal

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new information pushes old information out of memory

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retroactive interference

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cerebellum

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posture, balance, coordination - attached to brainstem

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infomration not in consciousness, but that you could pull to consciousness. (or things you can do without thinking (like answering a phone?)

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preconsciousness

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tryptophan

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hormone in turkey

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melatonin

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neurochemical that makes you sleepy

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bandura studied this, the technique used in observational learning

technique where a client watches someone receive an award for acting in a certain way, and then imitates that behavior

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two definitions for

standards against which scores on a test are compared

expected or usual social behaviors

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constant level of excitement . .. feelings of dread

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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Fixation

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getting stuck at a certain level in Freud’s stages

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gestalt principle where we tend to complete objects that are not complete

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All the gestalt principles:

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break in 21st chromosone

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down syndrome

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neurotransmitters that act as body’s natural painkillers

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endorphins

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projective test specific example

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Rorschach ink blot test

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flashbulb memory

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egocentrism

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tendency to see world from one one’s point of view

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empiricism (& tabula rosa?)

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only learn through observation

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popular treatment for violent patients; left patient in vegetative stage

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lobotomy is a form of

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lesioning

lesion means cutting

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parasympathetic role in conserving energy

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temporal lobe

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understanding of speech music

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first speech stage

38
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protective layer on outside of eye - covers iris pupil and anterior chamber

the thing you would touch if you put on a contact

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fovea

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center of retina where your cones are

40
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contains

organ of corti

snail like

basilar membrane

41
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continuous reinforcement vs fixed ratio

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much of our motivation is our body trying to maintain equilibrium

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drive-reduction theory

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removal of aversive event

removal of negative experience is rewarding

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negative reinforcement

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searching for something that supports your own view

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confirmation bias

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disorganized schizophrenia

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pleasure vs. reality principle

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channel anger away from one source to a ess threatening object

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displacement, not sublimation

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rods

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receptive in low light

49
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defense mechanism reverting to childish behavior

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regression

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a gestalt principle - asserts we attend to see objects near to eachother as forming groups

51
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maintenance rehearsal

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full name for rehearsal

52
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somatoform vs conversion?

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