Psych 101 exam 1 Flashcards

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Psychology

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Scientific study of behavior, and the mental process

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Health Psychology

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Promotes behavior that brings good (physical) health

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Operant Conditioning

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When a voluntary response is increased or depending on (un?)favorable consequences

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Mirror Neurons

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Neurons that mimic behavior from other people/sources

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Synesthesia

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When exposure to one sensation brings about another one

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Wilhelm Windt

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Opened the first psychology lab in 1879, his goal: study the structures of the mind

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Wernicke’s Aphasia

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Difficulty understanding language

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Absolute Threshold

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smallest intensity of a threshold that must be present to be detected by the body

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Scientific Method

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Process of testing a hypothesis, systematically aquiring knowledge and understanding behavior

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Central Nerveous System

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The neurons in your brain and spine

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Peripheral Nerveous system

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Neurons throughout the body

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Independent Variable

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Variable manipulated by the research

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Neurons

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Cells that receive and send messages to the brain,

Basic Element of the nerveous system

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Law of Effect

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Actions that have positive consequences are more likely repeated

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Axon

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Part of neuron that sends messages to other neurons

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Dendrites

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Part of neurons that receive messages

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Eardrum

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Part of the ear that vibrates when sound hits it

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Correlational Research

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Research that studies the relationship between two sets of variables

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Place theory of hearing

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Different areas of the phasmal membrane respond to different frequencies

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Positive Punishment

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Adding an (usually unpleasant) stimulus to REMOVE a stimulus/habit

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Negative Punishment

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Removing a stimulus to REMOVE a stimulus/habbit

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Positive Reinforcement

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Adding a stimulus to add a new stimulus/habbit

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Negative Reinforcement

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Removing a stimulus to add a new habbit/stimulus

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REM sleep

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the brain is active, body is basically paralyzed

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Diversity in psychology
The low ammount of minorities in the field (in america)
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Sleep Apnea
Difficulty breathing during sleep
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Narcolepsy
Falling Asleep way to easily (medical condition)
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Night Terrors
Waking up during a panic from nightmares
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Stage 3 sleep
Night Terrors happen during this stage of sleep, deepest stage of sleep
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Temporal Lobes
Side lobes of the brain
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Oxipital Lobes
Lobes in the back of the head
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Learning
Relatively permanent change in response to experience
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Nightmares
Bad/Scary Dreams
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Soma
Cell body of a neuron
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Terminal Buttons
Part of axon that releases neurotransmitters
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Mylin Sheath
Protects axons with a nice, thermal proof sheath
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Neurotransmitters
Chemicals that transfers messages from one neuron to the next
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Synapse
Space between two neurons (Axon and Dendrite)
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Negative Reinforcer
Stimulus added to REMOVE unwanted behavior
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Consciousness
State of awareness of the sensations, stimuluses, thoughts, feelings, ect at a given momment
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Meditation
Clearing your consciousness for
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Weber's Law
Just noticeable difference of the intensity of an initial stimulus
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Classical Conditioning
type of learning where an unrelated stimulus starts to relate to another stimulus
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Hippocampus
Part of the brain that relates to learning and memory
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Culture influences on the experience of consciousness
Substantial differences between cultures
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Spontaneous Recovery
Reemergence of a previously extinguished response
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Sensation
Activation of sense organs via source of physical energy
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Pavlov's Dog
Experiment used to discover/define classical conditioning
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Sensory adaptation
When you become accustomed to a stimulus
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Limbic System
Part of brain that controls emotions and self preservation
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Unconditioned Stimulus
Brings about a natural response
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Pheromones
Chemicals secreted by insects and mammals into the environment for communication
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Hypnosis against your will?
Impossible
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Dreams for survival theroy
Theroy where dreams are used to process our life for survival traits
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Sigmund Freud
Fucking weird guy
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Frequency theroy of hearing
Suggests that the basal memory is basically a biological microphone
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Dependant Variable
Variable NOT modified by the researcher
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All-or-none law
Neurons are either 100% on, or off. no inbetween
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Perception
How the psyche perceives the senses/stimuli
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Order of the lobes of the cortex, from anterior to posterior
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Top-down processing
Perceiving the world around us by drawing from what we already know to interpret new information
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Bottom-up processing
Perceiving the world using brand new sensations/stimuli first