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Potential Q's Flashcards

1
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What is biological determinism?

A

The idea that physical traits lead to behaviors

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2
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What year was the first psych lab built in?

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1879

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Who was Wilhelm Wundt’s student that brought his ideas over to the USA?

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Edward Titchener

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4
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What is Functionalism?

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Reason of mental processes instead of components (William Jones)

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5
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The idea of natural selection came from who?

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Charles Darwin

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6
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What did Sigmund Freud believe heavily in?

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The unconscious mind influences current behaviors

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7
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Structuralism, Functionalism, and psychoanalysis all rely on what?

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Introspection (Subjective)

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8
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Behaviorism focuses on:

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Observable behavior

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9
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What experiment did John Watson conduct?

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The Little Albert Experiment

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10
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What did the Little Albert Experiment suggest?

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That behavior can be predicted and controlled.
Fear of white rat because of loud noise paired with it

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11
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B.F. Skinner Box

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Trained animals to press certain levers for reward

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12
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What is the Gestalt Theory?

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Seeks to understand how the human brain perceives experiences as a whole rather than a sum of its parts

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13
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What was Kurt Lewin’s field theory of behavior?

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People react to stimuli/the world as they perceive it

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14
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What does cognitive psychology study?

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Human processing: perception, thought, memory, reasoning

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15
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What did John Garcia manipulate?

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The taste aversion in a rat

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16
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Who was the first woman to get a PhD in psychology?

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Margaret Floy Washburn

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17
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Who was the first president of the APA?

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Mary Whiton Calkins

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18
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What is rationalism?

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Knowledge is gathered via reason and argument

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19
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What is nativism?

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Knowledge is innate (You inherit it at birth)

20
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What is a demand characteristic?

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When people change their natural behavior in social settings

21
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What does the forebrain control?

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Complex cognitive, emotional, sensory, and motor functions

22
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What does the midbrain control?

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Orientation and movementW

23
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What does the hindbrain control?

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Incoming and outgoing information from spinal cord; basic life functions

24
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Medulla

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Survival Center: Heart & Lungs

25
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Reticular Formation

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Regulates arousal, sleep, arousal, wakefulness, attention, and alertness

26
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Pons

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Info relay from cerebellum to rest of brain

27
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Cerebellum

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Controls fine motor movements

28
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Tectum

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Orients you in your environment via stimuli from senses

29
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Tegmentum

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Involved in movement & arousal

30
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Cerebral Cortex

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Outmost layer of brain; divided into 2 hemispheres, contralateral control

31
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Subcortical Structures

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Housed under cerebral cortex near brains center

32
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Corpus Callosum

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Thick band of nerve fibers connecting 2 hemispheres

33
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Thalamus

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Relay station for sensory info
Receives sensory input & relays to body

34
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Hypothalamus

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Regulate motivated behavior

35
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Hippocampus

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Learning and memory

36
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Temporal Lobe

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Process sound from auditory nerves
Responsible for language

37
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Parietal Lobe

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Process sensory information from touch

38
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Occipital Lobe

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Process and interpret light stimuli and visual info

39
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Dendrites

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Receive info, sends to soma

40
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Soma (AKA Cell Body)

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Coordinates info processing tasks and keeps cell alive

41
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Axon

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Carries messages (APs) from somas to terminals

42
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What does myelin sheath cover? (Think: Myelin Sheath increases APs speed and efficiency)

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Axon

43
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Nodes of Ranvier

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Gaps between myelin sheaths

44
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Axon terminals

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Release NTMs upon receiving AP, at end of axon

45
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Conduction

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Within neuron

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