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Scientific Attitude

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Curiosity, Skepticism, Humility

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Critical thinking

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don’t blindly accept things

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psychology =

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philosophy + physiology

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Socrates and Plato

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the mind is separable from the body and continues to live after the body dies, knowledge is innate

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Aristotle

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Data, observation, knowledge is not preexisting; it grows from remembered experiences

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Rene Descartes

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Mind is entirely distinct from the body and able to survive after death, “animal spirits” flowed through brain cavities through nerves into muscles

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Francis Bacon

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One of the founders of modern science, common sense

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John Locke

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Labula Rasa

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Empiricism

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Locke and Bacon, knowledge comes from experience, observation and experimentation enable scientific knowledge

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Birth of psychology

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G. Stanley Hall

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Establishes the first formal US psychology lab at John Hopkins

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Early psych schools

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structuralism, functionalism, behaviorism

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structuralism

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Wundt and Tichener, used introspection

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Tichener

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promoted structuralism, used introspection

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Introspection

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looking inward at yourself to study yourselfWil

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William James

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Gen Z Darwin

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Functionalism

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promoted by James and influenced by Darwin, how mental and behavioral processes FUNCTION

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Mary Whiton Calkins

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First woman to be president of the American Psychological Association

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Margaret Floy Washburn

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First female psychology Ph.D

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Experimental psychologists

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use experiments to investigate basic behavioral processes in animals

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John B Watson and BF Skinner

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Psychology is the scientific study of observable behavior

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Behaviorism

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Psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior WITHOUT reference to mental processes

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Psychoanalytic Psychology

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Freud’s crap

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Humanistic psychologists

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Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow, emphasized human growth potential, everyone is born good

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Psychometrics

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Study of the MEASUREMENT of our abilities, attitudes, and traits

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Biological psychologists

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explore links between body and mind

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Developmental psychologists

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study the change between our abilities as we grow

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Cognitive psychologists

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experiment how we think

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educational psychologists

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Study influences on teaching and learning

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Personality psychologsists

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investigate our personalities persistent traits

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Social psychologists

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explore how we think about one another

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Psychometrics and quantitative psychologists

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study math-related methods to acquire psychological knowledge

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forensic psychologists

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legal crap

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Environmental psychologists

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study interactions between individuals and their environments

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Health psychologists

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How does psychology promote health and prevent disease

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Neuropsychologists

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investigate relationship between neurological processes and behavior (alzheimers, stroke, adhd)

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Rehabilitation psychologists

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rehabilitate people who have lost optimal functioning

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School psychologists

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gifted kids

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Basic research

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just science

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Applied research

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science that aims to solve problems

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Industrial-organizational psychology

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using psychology to do your job better, also called I/O psychologists

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Human factors psychology

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allied with I/O psych that explores how people and machines interact and how to make that safer

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Counseling psychology

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Assists people in living

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Clinical psychology

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treats people

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Psychiatry

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medicine

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Community psychology

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studies how people interact with their social environment and how social institutions affect people

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Dorothea Dix

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Thearapist

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Hindsight Bias

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Thinking that you would have foreseen the results after the outcome

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Philip Tetlock

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Predictions are right less than 40 percent of the time

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Overconfidence Effect

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Being very sure of a fact, the difference between what you know and what you think you know

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Confirmation bias

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Looking for evidence that confirms our beliefs and ignoring stuff that doesn’t

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Hawthorne effect

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When participants alter their behavior because they know they’re being watched

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Descriptive stats

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ways to organize and describe data

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Mean

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add up the numbers then divide by the amount of numbers, influenced heavily by outliers

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Median

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Place numbers in order and then find the middle, best for representation

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Mode

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Number that occurs most

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Measures of central tendency

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Mean, median, mode

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Measures of variability / variance

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Range, Standard deviation

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Range

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Highest number minus the lowest number

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Standard deviation

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the average distance a score is from the mean, represented by a Z-score

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Z-score

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Standard deviation

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Normal distributions

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68, 95, 99

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Inferential statistics

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draw conclusions from a dataset

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Statistical significance

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P value

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Statistical significance

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Neurons

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Smallest building blocks of behavior, messengers coded for one specific neurotransmitter

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Glial cells

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Provide support for neurons, processing speed, feeding neurons, clean up remains with dead neurons

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Sensory neurons / Afferent neurons

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senses stuff BESIDES SMELL, carry information to brain or spinal cord

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Interneurons / Relay neurons

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Worker bees, communicate from brain and spinal cord

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Motor neurons / Efferent neurons

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Movement, brain to skeletal muscles

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SAME

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Sensory, Afferent, Motor, Efferent

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Dendrite

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recieve messages from other cells

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Soma / Cell body

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life-support, decides if message is strong enough to pass on

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Axon

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Pathway through neuron

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Myelin sheath

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covers axon, acts as conductor, degenerative

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Degenerative myelin sheath –>

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multiple sclerosis

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Axon terminals / Axon buttons / Terminal buttons / Axon branches / terminal branches

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end of axon, sends messages to other neurons

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Communication in one neuron is…

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electrical

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Communication between two neurons is…

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Resting potential

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the state of an inactive neuron when not firing an impulse, negatively charged

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All or none principal

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a message either fires or it doesnt

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Action potential

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When a neuron is gonna fire, positively charged, depolarization

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Depolarization

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sodium enters, mixes with potassium and chloride, changes from negative to positive

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Refractory Period

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Brief period after firing where a neuron can’t fire again, repolarization

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Repolarization

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everything goes back to how it was, negative charge

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Sodium ion pump

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the bull crap that happens with sodium going in and out of a neuron

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Synapse / synaptic cleft / synaptic gap

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the space in between two neurons that the chemical message has to travel

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Receptor sites

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the things at the end of the dendrites that catch the neurotransmitters

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Reuptake

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Biological basis of depression, Serotonin is sucked back into the buttons, stopping it from moving on

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SSRI

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antidepressant, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors

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Nervous system

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bundles of neurons, message system, electrical wiring

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Central Nervous System (CNS)

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Brain and spinal cord, coordinates actions and interactions, largest section

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Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)

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Connects CNS to the rest of the body, includes Motor pathways, sensory pathways, Somatic nervous system, autonomic nervous system, sympathetic nervous system, and parasympathetic nervous system

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Motor pathways

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part of PNS, signals brain’s thoughts to muscles

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Sensory pathways

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Part of PNS, signals senses to brain

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Somatic Nervous System

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Brain to muscles, deciding to do stuff

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Autonomic Nervous System

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Automatic crap, includes sympathetic and parasympathetic

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Sympathetic Nervous System

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Fight flight or freeze system, emergency response, things shut down to give you energy

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Parasympathetic Nervous System

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Calms person, resets after emergency is over

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Consciousness

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State of alert, how aware are you

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Subconscious

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Memories and stuff you can’t access without help

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Unconscious

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Psychodynamic crap, hidden memories you can’t access no matter what

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Altered state

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Paradoxal (opposing things are happening, brain is conscious but body is shut down)

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Pineal gland

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Circadian rhythm

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16 hours awake, 8 hours asleep

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Supra chiasmatic nucleus

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runs off of daylight, when daylight ends it starts producing melatonin, wakes you up when the sun rises

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Sleep cycle

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90 minutes, 3-5 times per night

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beta waves

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awake, 15-30 hz, alert, anxious

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Alpha waves

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7-12 hz, relaxed, ready for sleep

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theta waves

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4-7hz, stages 1 and 2 of NRem, early sleep

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Delta waves

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up to 4hz, deep sleep, stage 3 of NRem

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NRem stage 1

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light sleep, hallucinations, hypnagogic sensations / hypnagogic jerks

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hypnagogic sensations / hypnagogic jerks

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when your body jerks when you’re sleeping as if you’re falling, NRem stage 1

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NRem stage 2

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Body temp drops, sleep spindles, sleep talking

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Sleep spindles

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sudden burst of energy in theta waves, NRem stage 2

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NRem stage 3

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Deep sleep, slow wave sleep, memories being processed, human growth hormones being produced (which is why babies sleep a lot), immune system refreshes itself, sleepwalking

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REM Sleep

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Rapid Eye Movement, beta waves, brain looks like its awake, dream sleep

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REM / sleep paralysis

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inability to voluntarily move muscles during REM sleep, your brain wakes up but your body is still sleeping

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sleep deprivation

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condition of not having enough sleep, chronic or acute; causes irritability, lack of motivation, anxiety, sleep-deprivation psychosis, depression, aging, cardiovascular disease

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REM sleep rebound

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increase in REM sleep after you have a night of just a little REM sleep

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Sleep-deprivation psychosis

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break in reality caused by sleep deprivation

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Microsleep

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30 seconds where your brain is asleep, usually when you’re in a routine on autopilot

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Insomnia

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inability to get sleep, stay asleep, or get good sleep, can be acute (reason) or chronic (no reason)

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Sleep Apnea

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disorder where a person stops breathing for 30 seconds, usually happens to overweight people

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Narcolepsy

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person falls immediately into REM sleep during the day without warning, genetic

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Somnambulism

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sleepwalking, NRem stage 1-3, more common in children than adults, motor cortex is awake but hippocampus isn’t, genetic, amygdala is also asleep (makes them fearless)

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Nightmares

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bad dreams during REM

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Night terrors

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relatively rare disorder where someone is really scared of something during deep sleep, combines with sleepwalking, don’t remember it

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REM sleep behavior disorder

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body isn’t asleep, so a person can act out of dream behavior, Neurodegenerative disorder

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Wish fulfillment dream theory

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dreams represent things you would like to do that are socially unacceptable, focuses on Latent (unconscious wishes) and Manifest (symbolic version of that wish) content, lacks scientific support

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Information-Processing Dream Theory

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We dream to file away memories, your dreams focus on the memories that you’re going through and filing away

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Activation-Synthesis Dream Theory

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Your brain has so much computing power that it spends time creating stories for you, most widely accepted

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Cognitive Development Dream Theory

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You dream to enhance cognitive development, people don’t like this because it doesn’t offer much, ex doing math homework in a dream

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Dream Theory 5

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We dream to develop and preserve neural pathways, use it or lose it, like playing an instrument so it doesn’t get out of tune

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Maturation

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Learning, relatively permanent change caused by experience or practice

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Ivan Pavlov

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accidentally discovered classical conditioning

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Classical conditioning

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associating one event with another… stimulus and response

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Acquisition

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First time the conditioned response is caused by the conditioned stimulus

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Higher-Order / Second-Order conditioning

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adding another neutral stimulus to make the process longer

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Extinction

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Deconditioning, decreasing response to stimulus, removing the unconditioned stimulus

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Spontaneous Recovery

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Random moments of the connection happening again after deconditioning

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Little Albert

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Conditioned fear, didn’t decondition

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Stimulus Generalization

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when the fear extends to things that are similar to the original thing

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Stimulus Discrimination

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Opposite of stimulus generalization

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Systematic desensitization

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incremental exposure of the thing you fear to make you not afraid of it

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