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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

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The low ammount of minorities in the field (in america)

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Sleep Apnea

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Difficulty breathing during sleep

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Narcolepsy

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Falling Asleep way to easily (medical condition)

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Night Terrors

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Waking up during a panic from nightmares

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Stage 3 sleep

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Night Terrors happen during this stage of sleep, deepest stage of sleep

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Temporal Lobes

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Side lobes of the brain

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Oxipital Lobes

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Lobes in the back of the head

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Learning

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Relatively permanent change in response to experience

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Nightmares

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Bad/Scary Dreams

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Soma

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Cell body of a neuron

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Terminal Buttons

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Part of axon that releases neurotransmitters

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Mylin Sheath

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Protects axons with a nice, thermal proof sheath

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Neurotransmitters

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Chemicals that transfers messages from one neuron to the next

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Synapse

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Space between two neurons (Axon and Dendrite)

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Negative Reinforcer

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Stimulus added to REMOVE unwanted behavior

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Consciousness

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State of awareness of the sensations, stimuluses, thoughts, feelings, ect at a given momment

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Meditation

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Clearing your consciousness for

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Weber’s Law

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Just noticeable difference of the intensity of an initial stimulus

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Classical Conditioning

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type of learning where an unrelated stimulus starts to relate to another stimulus

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Hippocampus

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Part of the brain that relates to learning and memory

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Culture influences on the experience of consciousness

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Substantial differences between cultures

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Spontaneous Recovery

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Reemergence of a previously extinguished response

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Sensation

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Activation of sense organs via source of physical energy

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Pavlov’s Dog

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Experiment used to discover/define classical conditioning

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Sensory adaptation

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When you become accustomed to a stimulus

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Limbic System

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Part of brain that controls emotions and self preservation

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Unconditioned Stimulus

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Brings about a natural response

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Pheromones

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Chemicals secreted by insects and mammals into the environment for communication

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Hypnosis against your will?

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Impossible

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Dreams for survival theroy

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Theroy where dreams are used to process our life for survival traits

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Sigmund Freud

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Fucking weird guy

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Frequency theroy of hearing

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Suggests that the basal memory is basically a biological microphone

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Dependant Variable

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Variable NOT modified by the researcher

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All-or-none law

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Neurons are either 100% on, or off. no inbetween

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Perception

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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

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Perceiving the world around us by drawing from what we already know to interpret new information

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Bottom-up processing

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Perceiving the world using brand new sensations/stimuli first

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