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started the first psychology lab and his school of psychology was structuralism

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william wundt

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father of psycology

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wundt

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behaviorism. showed us that you can condition fear

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john watson and little albert

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thinks that you are responsible for the choices that you make and are born to be good and become better

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humanistic

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fear of death.

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existential

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when you accept death you rid yourself from ___

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fear

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integrates biological, psychological, and social-cultural factors

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biopsychosocial framework

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dr. PhD- no medicine

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psychologist

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M.D. doctorate- medicine

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psychiatrist

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10
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masters LPC- adjustment issues

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counselor

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therapist

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unregulated term

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when you watch people in a natural setting and write your findings down

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naturalistic observation

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when you watch people in a lab and write your findings down

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laboratory observation

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can make predictions but not cause and effect relations

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correlations

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can determine cause and effect

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experimental

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16
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the cause

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independent variable

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17
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the effect

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dependent variable

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18
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the group doesn’t know whats going on

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blind study

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19
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this group gets the independent variable

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experimental group

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20
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this group gets the dependent variable

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control group

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fake variable

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placebo

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22
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perceiving a relationship between variables even when no relationship exists

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illusionary correlations

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23
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controls balance and coordinates muscles

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cerebellum

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24
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wakes you up

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reticular formation

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25
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controls basic life functions

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pon and medulla

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bodys receptionist

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thalamus

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controls emotional responses

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amygdala

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memory

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hippocampus

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brains skin, controls impulses

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cerebral cortex

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brain wrinkles

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fishers

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sight

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occipital lobe

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sound

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temporal lobe

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motor cortex

also the largest

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frontal lobe

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sensations (bottom of line)

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parietal lobe

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able to speak (top of line)

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brocas area

36
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able to make words make sense

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werricks area

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fiber bundle that connects the 2 halves of the brain

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corpus callous

38
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study the links between our body and behavior

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biological psychologist

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nerve cell

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neuron

40
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pull in electrically charged transmitters

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dendrites

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moves messages

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axons

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carries messages to spinal cord

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sensory neurons

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carries messages from brain or spinal cord to muscle or glands

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motor neurons

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contracts muscles

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ACh neurotransmitter

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eases muscles

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dopamine

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natural pain killer

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endorphine

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fight-or-flight

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adrenaline / epinephrine

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arouses and expends energy

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sympathetic nervous system

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conserves energy

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parasympathetic nervous system

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aware of self and surroundings

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consciousness

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your ability to choose your focus

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selective attention

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your body 24 hour cycle

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circadian rhythm

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sleep stages -

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nonREM 1,2, and 3

and REM

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REM

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30 minutes.
dreaming.
easy to wake up

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nonREM

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60 minutes.
3- hardest to wake up
1- easy to wake up

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why do we sleep

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it restores memory, helps your body rest and support growth and without it we die

57
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inability to sleep enough

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sleep deprivation

58
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inability to get a good nights sleep

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insomnia

59
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fall asleep all of the sudden

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narcolepsy

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stop breathing in sleep

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apnea

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when your brain makes a story of your dreams

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neural static dreams

62
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making up lost REM sleep

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REM rebound

63
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while dreaming you learn that you’re dreaming

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lucid dreams

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altered state or social roleplay

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hypnosis

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lowers central nervous systems

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depressants

66
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raises central nervous system

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stimulants

67
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make you hallucinate

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hallucinogens

68
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why is it dangerous to drink alcohol while on anti-depressants

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you die

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