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Phycology Final Exam Flashcards

1
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Father of phycology

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Willham Wundt

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2
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Regulates the body’s sense of balance

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Vestibular system

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3
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First and last parts are remembered

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Primacy recency

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4
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Key behaviorist

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B.F. Skinner

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5
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General adaptation syndrome

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Alarm resistance exhaust-stance (fight or flight)

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6
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If a test measures what it says it measures

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Validity

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7
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The biological clock

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Circadian rythem

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8
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Senses are activated vs interpretation of a stimulus

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Sensation/perception

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9
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A dream is a wish your heart makes

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Freud

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10
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Previously meaningless stimulus becomes meaningful

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Classical condition

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11
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Method of helping people overcome fear

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Desensitizion

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12
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Behavior increases in frequency if it is rewarded

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Operant condition

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13
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Unpredictable pop quizzes

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Variable interval

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14
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Shortcuts or rules of the home for solving problems

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Heuristics

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15
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Believe children learn through asimulation and accommodation

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Piaget

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16
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Organizing perceptions into whole

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Gestalt

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17
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People have freedom to choose

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Humanism

18
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Split in consciousness

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Disassociate

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Who receives the treatment

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Experimental group

20
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Taking it out on someone else

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Displacement

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Learning that shows up later

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Latent

22
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Removing unpopular stimulus

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Negative reinforcement

23
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Small things earned in order to get something else desired

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Token economy

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Behavior returns after extinction

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Spontaneous recovery

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Part or subconscious that is the Ideal

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Super ego

26
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Consistent part of a personality

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Trait

27
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Gap between sending neuron’s in recovering neurons

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Synapse

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Unlearned natural response

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Unconditioned response

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Control and processing center of the brain

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Cerebral cortex

30
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Time of life when learning is optimal

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Critical period

31
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Two desirable choices

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Approach approach

32
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Using psychology to help people in the real world

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Applied psychology

33
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Studying different ages at the same time

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Cross section

34
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Brain will only allow certain amount of pain

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Gate control theory

35
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Research in which neither party knows test or placebo

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Double blind

36
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Memory of recent past with a great recall of detail

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Eidetic

37
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Young animals bond with early models

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Imprinting

38
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Controls temperature, hunger, thirst, andmotion

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Hypothalamus

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Observational learning by imitation

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Modeling

40
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Emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives

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