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Symbolic Interactionism

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Microlevel sociological view that analyzes how members of society use and understand the symbols of society that they live in

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Looking-Glass Self

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Idea that a person’s sense of self develops from interpersonal interactions with others and their perception of self

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Social cue

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Non/vocal suggestion that can be positive or negative -Guide conversation and other social interactions -Ex: facial expression, tone of voice, body language

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Serial Position Effect

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More likely to retain info from beginning and end of list

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Implicit Memory

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Type of memory in which previous experiences aid the performance of a task without conscious awareness of these experiences Ex: riding a bike

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Reticular formation

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Connected nuclei in brain stem that regulate arousal and sleep-wake transitions -Mediates transition from relaxed wakefulness to periods of high attention

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Confirmation Bias

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Tendency of an individual to search for, interpret or recall info in a way that confirms their beliefs or hypothesis

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Feminist theory

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Examines women’s social roles, experience, interests and politics in various fields

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Social vs Cultural Capital

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• Cultural capital: social asset that helps provide social mobility beyond monetary resources ◦ Ex: style of dress, university education, specialized knowledge • Social Capital: Benefit one receives from one’s social networks ◦ Networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society ◦ Ex: peer network, family network, community network

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Types of sanctions

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Sanction: Reinforce norms via rewards/punishments for behaviors Positive: reward for conforming to norms Negative: Punishment for violating norms Formal: Officially recognized and enforced Informal: Unofficially recognized and does not result in specific punishment

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Mediating vs Moderating Variable

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• Mediating Variable: If present, original predictor/independent variable works indirectly through a more immediate cause to yield the final effect ◦ Adds to overall variance accounted for in data and explains relationship between dependent and independent variables • Moderating Variable: Specifies conditions under which a given predictor is related to an outcome ◦ When a dependent and independent variable are related -Describes the strength/weakness between the two variables

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Deindividuation

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Individual loses self awareness in groups

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Primacy Effect

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Tendency to recall those presented first on a list

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Self-Perception

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Notion that a person develops an attitude by watching their own behavior and concluding that they account this attitude to leading to this behavior Ex: Sees coworker and make rude comment -Think to self wow I must not like her

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Conflict theory

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Sociology viewed through lens of conflict between various classes and groups within society -Involves systematic inequalities that keep power out of hands of lower status groups

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Stigma

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Stigma is extreme disapproval of person based on some behavior/quality of that person

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Nigrostriatal Bundle

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Associated with movement -Damage to this area leads to Parkinson’s disease

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Types of Support

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• Companionship Support: gives someone a sense of social belonging ◦ Companions engage in shared social activities • Emotional Support: ACtions people take to make us feel loved/cared for ◦ Includes bolstering of self-worth ◦ Non-tangible forms of assistance • Instrumental Support: Tangible help that one could provide to an individual • Informational support: sometimes included in category of instrumental support ◦ Help that others offer through provision of information

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Self-concept vs self-esteem

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• Self-concept/self-identity: How someone thinks about/perceives/evaluates themselves ◦ Derived from self-esteem a dan self0efficacy ◦ Existential self: sense of being separate and distinct from others ◦ Categorical self: Being aware that we are separate/distinct from others but exist in the world with others • Self-esteem=self-worth

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Cognitive Bias effect

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Tendency to think in certain ways -Often causes deviations from standard of rationality or good judgement

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Heterophily vs Homiphily

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• Heterophily: Tendency of individuals to collect in diverse groups ◦ Homophily: tendency of individuals to associate and bond with others similar to themselves

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Depersonalization

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Symptom of serious mental illness in which person feels like they have stepped outside of themselves and have no sense of control over behavior

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Punishment vs Reinforcement

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Reinforcement implies reinforcing a certain behavior Positive: adding a stimuli Negative: removing a stimuli Punishment: implies wanting subject to not do something

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Freudian Defense Mechanisms

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Unconscious mind can develop defense mechanisms to protect ego from anxiety or from situations that a person cannot cope

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Regency Effect

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Tendency to recall items near the end of a list

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Aversive Conditioning

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Noxious stimuli associated with undesirable/unwanted behaviors

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Cannon-bard vs James-Lange theory

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• Cannon-bard theory:Physiological response and emotion occur simultaneously ◦ Ex: Man sees bee -> at same time, his heart beat increases, he starts sweating and labels the emotion he’s experiencing as fear • James-Lange Theory: Emotion is experienced in response to a physiological reaction to arousing stimuli

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Functionalism

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• Functionalism: Looks at society from large-scale perspective and how each part keeps it stable ◦ Society is heading towards equilibrium: society and social institutions are interdependent and depend on each other to interact as a whole

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GABA

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Chief inhibitory NT of the CNS -Principal role in reducing neuronal excitability throughout nervous system -Decreased levels in patients with anxiety disorders

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Maslow’s Hierarchy

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Outlines how people prioritize basic physiological needs over other needs in life like safety or belonging ◦ Top priority: physiological needs like food, water, rest, warmth ◦ Next: Safety needs: security ◦ Next: belongingness and love needs: intimate relationships and friends ◦ Next: Esteem needs: prestige and feeling of accomplishment ◦ Next: Self-actualization: achieving ine’s full potential like creative activitiesq

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Conformity vs Groupthink

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• Conformity: adjusting one’s behavior/thoughts to coincide with a group standard • Groupthink: desire for harmony or conformity within a group results in irrational decision making

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Types of stressors

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Acute: One stressor present over a short period of time Micro: Small daily hassles -Ex: dealing with traffic or coworkers Crisis: sudden, rare occurrence like a natural disaster -Ex: natural disaster Ambient: chronic environmental stressors that cannot be changed by efforts of individual -Ex: economy and climate change

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Piaget’s vs Kholberg’s Stages of Development

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Piaget’s apply to children/adolescents and are stages of cognitive development Kholberg’s are stages of moral reasoning for people of all ages -How people reason through moral dilemmas

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Weber’s Law

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• Weber’s Law: Just-noticeable difference (change required to perceive a difference in an initial stimulus) is directly proportional to percent change in original stimulus ◦ Student able to perceive change of from 100 to 115 mm in a black dot, JND for a 50 mm dot is 15% greater than 50 mm -> 57.5

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Methods to increasing power of an analytical study

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  1. INcrease alpha level 2. Decrease random error 3. Conduct a one-tailed test 4. Expand sample size 5. Increase effect size
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Self-efficacy vs Self-worth

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• Self-efficacy: Abiilltiy to effect change ◦ Belief in one’s abilities to succeed in a situation ◦ Can either be strong or weak ◦ If weak, focus on personal failures and negative outcomes • Self-worth: How much value we place on ourselves

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Urea Group

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Yep

38
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What do pH and pOH equal

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39
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Poiseuille’s Law

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Flow = deltaP*pi*r^4/8Ln

delta P = change in pressure across the pipe

n = viscosity of the fluid

L = length of pipe

r=radius of pipe

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Equatino for power

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Power = work/time

Work = change in KE = KE final- KE initial

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What is surface tension and how is it altered?

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The contractive tendency of the surface of a liquid that allows it to resist an external force

  • Decreases as temp rises
  • Decreases as surface area of fluid rises
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Chelating agent

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organic molecule that forms two or more coordinate bonds witha. ametal atom or ion

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What does a competitive inhibitor alter?

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Increases Km of given rxn

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Factors that impact nucleophilic ability

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  1. solvent - in polar protic solvents, nucleophilic ability increaes as we go down a group
  2. Charge: negative charge makes for stronger nucleophile

3 Sterics: bulkier nucleophiles hinder

  1. EN: as EN increases within a row, nucleophilic ability decreases
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What is an Imine?

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A carbon double bonded to a nitrogen atom

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How to identify R vs S chirality

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  1. Identify four suibstituents and rank them
  2. If clockwise, R, if counter, S (Clockwise moves to right so R)
  3. If lowest priority group faces you, invert designation
    - If it’s a solid wedge, facing you
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Positron emission:

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Component of beta + decay:

=Parent nucleus converts a proton into a neutron while emitting a positron (e+)

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Beta Minus decay

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Weak parent nucleus converts a neutron into a proton while emitting an e-

-Atomic mass stays constant because neutron -> proton

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Beta Plus decay:

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Synonymous with positron emission

-Parent nucleus converts a proton into a neutron while emitting a positron (e+)

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Alpha Decay:

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Atomic nucleus emits an alpha particle (He nucleus)

-Atom transformed with a mass number 4 less and an atomic number 2 less than parent species

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Lipophilic = ?

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Lipophilic = hydrophobic

Lipophobic = hydrophilic

-Lipophilic: ability of a chemical compound to dissolve in fats, oils, lipids and nonpolar solvents

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What explains why sound wave velocity increases as it travels from air to a liquid medium at same temp.

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Bulk modulus of medium

  • Sound travels fastes in solids and slowest in gases
  • Speed of sound increases with stiffness/bulk modulus of a material

As density increases, speed of sound is slower

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Type 1 Restriction Enzyme

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Cleave at sites remote from recognition site

-Require both ATP and S-adenosyl-L-methionine

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Type II Restriction Enzyme

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Cleave within or at short specific distances from their recognition sites

-Require Mg2+

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Type III Restriction enzymes

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Celave at sites a short distance from their recognition sites

-Require ATP

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Type IV Restriction enzymes

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Target modified DNA

-Methylated/hydroxymethylated

57
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Azide Group

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N3-

58
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Roll of the Gallbladder

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Storing and secreting bile for digestion

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Smooth muscle: How many nuclei, controlled by what division of the nervous system, and do they have striations?

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No striations

  • Controlled by Parasympathetic nervous system
  • Uninucleated
60
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What is humoral immunity?

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Part of body’s adaptive immune response

-B-cell activity promotes an antibody response

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