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Psychology midterm Flashcards

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What is the difference between Reliability vs Validity?

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Reliability - Produces consistent results overtime
Validity - Measures what it says it measures

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What is the purpose of psychology?

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To study the human mind and behavior

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What are the 3 steps to critical thinking?

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1- is the source of the claim believable?
2- is there strong evidence for the claim?
3- do other believable sources agree about the claim?

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What are the 5 domains of psychology?

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Biological
Cognitive
Developmental
Social and personality
Mental and Physical health

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What is the purpose of Institutional review boards?

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that make sure all test are responsible and ethical

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What is central nervous system?

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the brain and spinal cord

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Name 5 neurotransmitters!

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Serotonin
Dopamine
Glutamate
Endorphins

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Name the lobes of the brain and what they do

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Frontal lobe (complex thoughts)
Parietal lobe (touch)
Occipital lobe (vison)
Temporal lobe (hearing)

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Postive reinforcement is…

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add enjoyable to increase behavior

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Negative reinforcement is…

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remove something aversive to increase behavior

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Postive punishment is…

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add something aversive to decrease behavior

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Negative punishment is…

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remove something enjoyable to decrease a behavior

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Classical conditioning vs operant conditioning

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Classical - Repeated pairing
Operant - behavior and its consequences

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Unconditioned Stimulas
Unconditioned response
Natural stimulas
Conditioned stimules
Conditioned response

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Unconditioned - doesn’t need learning
Conditioned - learning has happened
Stimulus - thing

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extinction vs generalizaton

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explain
1. encoding
2. storage
3. retrieval

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  1. encoding - processing of info so that it can be stored
  2. storage - the retention of encoding representations over time
  3. retrieval - the act of recalling or remerbeing stored info when it is needed
17
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What is chunking?

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using working memory to organize info into meaningful units to make it easier to remember

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Maintenance rehearsal

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using working memory processes to repeal info based on how it sounds (auditory info) provides only sallow encoding of info

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What is thinking ?

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the mental manipulation of rersentaion of info we encounter in our environments

20
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What is stereotypes?

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schemas that allow for easy fast processing of info about people, events, or groups based on their memberships in partical groups

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