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Psychology is an empirical science this means that psychology attempts to…

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Remain evidence based

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This theory contributed to psychology by hypothesizing about the unconscious mind and how childhood experiences contributed to mental health

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Freudian psychology

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What are the three basic attitudes that make modern science possible

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Skepticism humility and curiosity

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What are the three basic levels of psychological analysis

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Sociological, psychological, biological

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This early psychological school trained participants in introspection to discover the mind’s structure

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Structuralism

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True or false a cause can be determined from correlation

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False

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A hypothesis is

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A testable prediction

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Emma is working to test and retest the results of asch’s line study by holding multiple similar studies and comparing results to see if asch’s basic findings can be reproduced. This is known as…

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Replication

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Dr. Bandits is interested in studying televisions influence on aggression. To study this, he designs an experiment where one group of children are shown a violent cartoon and another group is not. Then the children are placed in a room with a punching bag. Dr bandits records that the children who were shown the bad clip punched the punching bag more what was the independent variable

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Exposure to a violent cartoon

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What are APA guidelines researchers must follow when working with human experiments

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Obtain informed consent
Keep info about participants confidential
Fully debrief people
Protect participants from great than usual harm and discomfort

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Dr Paul ekman found major differences in facial expression across cultures with significant in group emotional accuracy true or false

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False

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The historical emotional theory states that arousal and emotion occur at the same time

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Cannon bard theory

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Elon musk is depressed cause Jeff basso making more money than him. Comparing himself seems to be the source of his depression… this is know as

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Relative deprivation

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The behavioral medicine subtitle of psychology

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Health psychology

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Martin seligman was interested in studying human flourishing and promote the strengths and virtues of his clients. AKA

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Positive psychology

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This is the fatty tissue encasing the axons

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Myelin sheath

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Plasticity refers to the brains ability to

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Change

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Leonard is unable to form new memories due to a terrible accident to this region of the brain. Alzheimer’s,Cronin traumatic encephalopathy and anterograde amnesia also involve this region that is involved in explicit memory formation

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The hippocampus

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This division of the nervous system consists of the brain and spinal cord

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Central nervous system

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Homer startled by alarm but remembers there’s a drill and eats donut. What part of homers nervous system down regulates his physiology after this startling arousal?

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The parasympathetic nervous system

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Dendrites

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Receive messages

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Axon

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Extension that passes messages

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Synapse

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Junction between the axon and the dendrite

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Central nervous system

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The brain and spinal cord

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Peripheral nervous system

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The sensory and motor neurons

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The endocrine system

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set of glands that secret hormones into the bloodstream

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Medulla

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Controls heartbeat and breathing

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Thalamus

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Acts as the brains sensory control center

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Cerebellum

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Coordinates movement and balance

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The limbic system

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Amygdala hypothalamus and hippocampus

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The amygdala

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Fear and anger

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The hypothalamus

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Eating and drinking body temp and sex

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The hippocampus

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Explicit memory

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Frontal lobe

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Higher level executive function

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Corpus callosum

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Connects and Carrie’s messages between hemispheres

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James Lange theory

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Emotions result from attention to bodily activity

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Schachter singer two factor theory

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Physical reactions and our thoughts together create emotion

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Zajonc ledoux and Lazarus

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Emotion follows to neural pathways high and low
embodied responses happen instantly without conscious appraisal
cognitive appraisal defines emotions

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Sympathetic nervous system

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Arouses and mobilizes body to action

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Parasympathetic

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Calms down regulations body

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Is it easy to determine emotion by tracking heart rate breathing and perspiration?

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No, facial expressions and brain activity are much better indicators

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Behavior feedback effect

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Behavior influences ours and others thoughts feelings and actions

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Adaptive level phenomenon

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The tendency to adjust to a new normal and require another boost to feel similar levels of emotions

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3 phases of general adaptive syndrome (gas)

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Alarm
Resistance
Exhaustion

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Cope

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Emotional cognitive or behavioral methods of stress reduction

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Self control

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Impulse control and delayed satisfaction

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Hindsight bias

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The tendency to believe after learning an outcome that we would’ve foreseen it

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Theory

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An explanation that organizes observations and predicts

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Operational definitions

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A carefully worded statement of the exact procedures used in a research study

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Meta analysis

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Analysis of multiple studies to reach an overall conclusion

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Naturalistic observations

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Descriptive natural situations, not trying to manipulate

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Mean

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Average of a distribution

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Median

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The middle score in a distribution

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Mode

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The most frequently occurring score

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Range

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The difference between the highest and lowest scores

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Standard deviation

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A measure of how much scores can vary

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Normal distribution

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A symmetrical bell shaped curve

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Statistical significance

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P-value < or = .05

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Early psychological schools

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Functionalism: considers the function of mental and behavioral processes on adaptation survival and flourishing or reproduction

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Behaviorism (bf skinner)

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Concerned only with behavior and refuses to reference mental processes

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Humanistic psychology

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Emphasized human growth potential

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Psychology

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The science of behavior and mental processes

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