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Psych & Socio Flashcards

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Hippocampus

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-responsible for your memory and learning

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Amygdala

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-involved with emotion, aggression, and fears
-stimulation of amygdala results in anger, violence, and fear

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Operant conditioning

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reinforcement and habituation with rewards and punishment

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Dishabituation

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when a previously habituated stimulus produces response again

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Desensitization

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decreased response to a previously sensitized stimulus over time
eg: afraid of birds–>your therapist let you talk more about birds in detail

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Serial Position Effect

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Selective recall of items presented at the beginning (primacy) and the end (recency) effect

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Sleep stages and waves

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BAT DB
-Theta waves- stage 1+ stage 2 (w/ sleep spindles and K complexes)
-Delta-stage 3&4 slow wave sleep
-REM high f, low amplitude-similar to beta waves

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Long term memory

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Explicit and implicit memories
Procedural-riding a bike or tying shoes
Semantic-facts & concepts

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Source Monitoring

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errors that occur when an individual incorrectly attributes a memory to the wrong source

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Instinctive drift

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Speech Production

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Broca Area

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Hemisphere Lateralization

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Visualization-creativity and imagination
LT-analytical reasoning

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Mirror neuron system

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-Firing both while observing and performing a behavior
-observational learning-an individual learns how to behave by watching someone else doing the behvaior

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Retroactive Interference

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Most recently learned knowledge interfered with the old knowledge

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Sensory Memory

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Temporarily stores memory; the shortest: 1s-2s

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Language Acquisation

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Interactionist=
biological+social/environmental

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Memory Encoding and Retrivial

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Symptoms of Depression

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Mania-indicative of bipolar disorder

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Memory Retrieval

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State Depedent-internal cues
Context Dependent-external cues that aid retriveal

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Role playing effects

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when individuals take attitudes that align with social roles that they’re playing with

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Crystalized Intelligence

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prior experiences+learning
increase with age

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Memory vs age

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Fluid Int: the ability to think creatively and ID new patterns

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Normal Memory Decay

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Continuous Reinforcement

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-reward mouse each time it does the desired behavior
-best way to perform a new behavior

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Attention

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-Selective attention: focus on one thing at a time
-Devided attention: a focus on two events at once
ex: listening to music while working out

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Dishabituation

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-a renewed response to a previously habituated stimulus
-ex: after taking off the sweater and putting it back on, it feels scratchy again

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Hawthorne Effect

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-being observed can influence people’s actions

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Indepnedent Variable

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-manipulated by the researchers to see if they had effect on the dependent variable

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Confounding Variables

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uncontrolled variables that affect the controlled variables

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Hydrostatic Pressure

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Electric Current

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I=Q/t; V=I*R

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C–># of electrons

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1 coulomb (C) is equal to approximately 6.25 x 10^18 electrons

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Memory retrieval

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free recall-retrieval of previously learned info without a cue
cued reca

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Erikson Psychosocial Stages

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Episodic memory

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the ability to recall personal experiences, including the sensory, emotional, and perceptual details of specific events
ex: a birthday party, a first date, a phone call etc…

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Flashbulb Memory

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a vivid, long-lasting memory of how someone learned about a surprising or shocking event

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Retroactive Interference

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More recent information interferes with one’s ability to recall old information

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Context dependent memory

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Context-physcial environment

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Escape learning

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-to remove current undesirable stimulus

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Avoidance learning

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-prevent future undesirable stimulus

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Working memory vs short term memory

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Different types of working memory

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Motion Parallax

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a monocular depth cue that causes objects that are closer to you to appear to move faster than objects that are further away

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The phi phenomon

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an illusion of movement that arises when stationary objects—light bulbs, for example—are placed side by side and illuminated rapidly one after another

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Retinal Disparity

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the difference in the images that each eye sees when looking at an object, which is a vital part of depth perception

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Speech Shadowing

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a psycholinguistic experimental technique in which subjects repeat speech at a delay to the onset of hearing the phrase

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Divided Attention

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Long Term Potentiation

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