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Test 1 Flashcards

1
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Psychology

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scientific study of mental process and behavior

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2
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Wilhelm Wundt

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Introspection. responsible for the “first lab”

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Educutionary

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newest inhereted IQ orientation

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cognitive

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computer thinking

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5
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humanistic

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free will/choice

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Sigmund Freud

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Psychodynamic

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TAT

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Thematic Apperception Test

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8
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Defense Mechanism

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reduce anxiety

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Neo-Freudians

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less sex more society

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Psychoanalytic dreams

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unknown desires

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REM (rapid eye movement)

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muscles move uncontrollably

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12
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Manifest dream

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Disguised meaning

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Latent

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hidden meaning

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14
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Hypnosis

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trancelike

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15
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CNS

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Central Nervous System

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Peripheral

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all neurons other than brain and spinal cord

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Endorphin

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opiate. reduces pain.

18
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Neurotransmitter

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chemical produced by brain

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Frontal

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part of the brain responsible for thinking/reasoning

20
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Parietal

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part of the brain responsible for senses

21
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Optical

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part of the brain responsible for sight

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Temperal lobe

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part of the brain responsible for hearing

23
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Left hemisphere of the brain responsible for?

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speech

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right hemisphere of the brain responsible for?

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emotional inititive

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drug problems

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all the time thinking

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meditation

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altered state

27
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gestalt

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perceptions/wholes

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archival research

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research in which existing data such as census documents, college records, and newspaper clipings are examined to test a hypothesis. (divorce)

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case study

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an in depth intensive investigation of an individual or small group of people

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dependent variable

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the variable that is measured in an experiment. it is expected to change as a result of the independent variable.

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independent variable

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the variable that is manipulated by an experiment

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ID

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the raw, unorganized, unborn part of the personality whose sole purpose is to reduce tension created by primitive drives to hunger, sex, aggression and irrational impulses.

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experiment

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the investigation of the relationship between two variables by deliberately producing a change in one variable in a situation and observing the effects of that change on other aspects of that situation

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super ego

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the personality structure that harshly judges the morality of our behavior (concience)

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naturalistic observation

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research in which an investigator simply observes some naturally occurring behavior and does not make a change in the situation.

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scientific method

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how psychologists systematically acquire knowledge and understanding about behavior and other pehnomenia of interest.

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biopsychologists

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psychologists who specialize in considering the ways in which biological structures and functions of the body affect behavior

38
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consciousness

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the awareness of the sensations, thoughts, and feelings being experienced at a given moment.

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neurons

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nerve cells, the basic elements of the nervous system

40
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Oedipal Complex

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is a child’s desire, that the mind keeps in the unconscious via dynamic repression, to have sexual relations with the parent of the opposite sex

41
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electroencephalogram (EEG)

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test used to detect abnormalities related to electrical activity of the brain. This procedure tracks and records brain wave patterns. Small metal discs with thin wires (electrodes) are placed on the scalp, and then send signals to a computer to record the results.

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extrasensory perception

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The term was adopted by Duke University psychologist J. B. Rhine to denote psychic abilities such as telepathy, clairaudience, and clairvoyance, and their trans-temporal operation as precognition or retrocognition.

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