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Wolpe

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Developed therapeutic technique of systematic desensitization

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Lazarus

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Known for the development of emotion focused and problem focused coping styles

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Moreno

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Known for the therapeutic technique of psychodrama in which clients act out their life experiences they are struggling with

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Cognitive Structuralists

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Fundamental belief is that a child is an active part of their own development

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“Moving Away from Others”

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Horney concept as a part of how children adapt to basic anxiety

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Piaget

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Everything to do with assimilation/accommodation. Inspired Cognitive Structuralist. Four Stages of Cognitive Development. Utilized the clinical method.

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Law of Effect

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Developed by Thorndike - (puzzle boxes for cats/pigeons).

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Cognitive Maps

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Suggested by Tolman, because he learned that rats utilized internal maps of mazes to determine how to solve them if there were roadblocks.

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E.O. Wilson

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Any question about Wilson is probably about sociobiology, and is concerned with the fitness of various species

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Auditory Transduction

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Takes place in the Organ of Corti

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Standard Deviation

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Measures Variability

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Pre-operational Stage

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Piaget 2nd cognitive stage. Time in which children begin to have the ability to internally represent the world

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Spatial Organization

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Mostly handled in the non-dominant hemisphere

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Olds and Milner

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Rats will electrically stimulate themselves in the septal nuclei (pleasure center, inhibits rage)

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Galton

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Studied individual differences as a way to study personality

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Implosion

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When therapist has the client imagine a fearfully conditioned stimulus as a way to begin desensitizing someone (i.e. flooding, but imagined)

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Dual Code Hypothesis

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Developed by Paivo. Asserts that concrete information (i.e. vocabulary) is encoded both visually and verbally when possible. This means that if a word/idea has better mental imagery associated with it, it will be remembered better

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Hippocampus Lesion

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Anterograde Amnesia

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Chlorpromazine

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Used to treat acute schizophrenia episodes

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Hypothetico-Deductive Method

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When a hypothesis is formed, and then studied, and then a new hypothesis is reevaluated.

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Avoidance-Avoidance Conflicts

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When one needs to make a choice about the lesser of two evils.

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Confabulation

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Filling in memory gaps with distorted material (sometimes happens in disorders which effect memory)

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Mental Chronometry

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Use of response times to study the cognitive processes.

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Eye Process in Dim Lights

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Utilize rods mostly, No rods in fovea. During dim light, hard to determine shapes from fovea in dim light.

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The Thicker the Myellin Sheath….

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The faster conduction is

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Expression/Comprehension of Language

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Handled in dominant hemisphere

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Ratio IQ Equation

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(mental age/chronological age)*100

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GABA is…

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Inhibitory neurotransmitter

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Social Facilitation vs. Social Influence

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Facilitation: improves performance
Influence: bystander theories (i.e. Darley/Latane)

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Studying to avoid failing a test is…

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avoidance (i.e. negative reinforcement)

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PKU

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Genetic degenerative disease in childhood. First one to be testable easily. Requires early intervention.

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Lewin and Personality

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Rigid and fluid boundaries of personality regions

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Witkin and Personality

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Personality is formed via one’s perception of the world

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Nature/Nurture

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Nature = Maturation
Nurture = Environment
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Geniculate Nucleuses

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Lateral Geniculate Nucleus: Vision

Medial Geniculate Nucleus: Audition

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Volley Principle

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Proposed by Wever and Bray:Concept that nerve fibers work together to vibrate the basilar membrane for frequencies of over 1000

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Gilligan

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Criticized Kohlberg morals and suggested that there was a stage method, but that there were gender differences (girls were more interpersonally focused, and men were more concerned with hedonistic results)

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Importance of Autoshaping

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Autoshaping demonstrates that operant conditioning is partially due to classical conditioning functions

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Categorical Perception

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The ability to ignore sound differences if they are not meaningful, and the ability to hear sound differences which are subtle but denote meaningful differences

40
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Signal Direction requires…

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ROC Curves!

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Frisch

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Studied honeybee “dancing” communications

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Tinbergen

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Studied aggression in sticklebacks

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Rod and Frame Apparatus

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Utilized in studies of field dependence

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Kin Selection explains…

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Altruism in animals, because while altruism doesn’t explain them increasing their fitness, by kin selection they are increasing their inclusive fitness

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Spatial Processing happens in the…

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Parietal Lobe

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Sign Stimulus triggers…

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FAP (fixed action patterns)

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Kelly

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People like being their own scientists, and so personality is driven by them wanting to control the environment around them.

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Substantia Nigra

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Basal Ganglia Structure. Decrease of dopamine here is what leads to parkinson’s symptoms.

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Which cognitive ability is LEAST LIKELY to decline in old age?

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semantic memory

50
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Sherrington thought rapid stimulation of synapses was due to…

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temporal summation

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ventral/dorsal streams

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ventral = what
dorsal = where
52
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Erikson’s crisis are considered a revamp of..

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Freud’s psychosexual stages

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Rapid Eye Movement is associated with…

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dreaming

54
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Mixing paints changes the colors because…

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the colors mixed will absorb all the wavelengths except the one they mix to become.

55
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Baddeley and Hitch

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Theories on working memory. If two tasks require the same component of WM, performance will be weakened on one or both tasks.

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False Consensus Effect

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When one overestimates the extent to which their opinions/beliefs are typical of others

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Rat damage to the suprachiasmatic nucleus in the hypothalamus

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will interfere with the biological clock that is synchorinized with light

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Changing from a two tailed to one tailed test…

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increases the power of the statistical test

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Johnston and Heinz Multimode Theory of Attention

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Flexible and selective attention.

If two tasks require attentional resources, can be misallocated.

60
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Where is the action potential triggered in the neuron?

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The axon hillock

61
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Gonodal Hormones effect on mate selection is called…

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An Organizational Effect

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Decenter

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(aka decentration). Piaget. Time during concrete operational where kids learn to consider multiple aspects of a situation, and learn about conservation.

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Amyloid Plaques and Neurofibrillary tangles are characteristic of…

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Alzheimer’s Disease

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Damage to the ear’s hair cells results in..

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difficulty hearing people in noisy situations (but no problems in quiet areas)

65
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Cephalocaudal Development

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Developm ent which proceeds from head to tail

66
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Kubler-Ross stages of coping with death

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(denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance).

Limited theory bc not everyone experiences every stage

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Subliminal Messages can…

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maybe influence short term attitude changes

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Tolman thought behavior was understood as…

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molar (ie continuous) and purposive

69
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General Adaption Syndrome

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Stage 1: alarm reaction (shock and countershock)
Stage 2: resistance
Stage 3: exhaustion

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The Phi Phenomenon

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Perceiving motion from series of immobile pictures or light flashes

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Pragmatism

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Philosophy that if something works well it’s true.

Heavily influenced the creation of functionalism

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First to use twin studies methodology

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Francis Galton

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Supplication

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Eliciting sympathy to create a positive impression.

74
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Normative Influences…

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Conformity motivated by fear of social rejection

75
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Personal Fable

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When a teen believes they are special/unique

76
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Adler’s theory of individual psychology

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resulted from his disagreement with freud re; universal biological forces. Adler focused on the strive to superiority instead.

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Delirium vs Dementia

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Delirium is temporary, dementia is permanent

78
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Rooting Reflex

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Breastfeeding reflex where if baby’s cheek is touched they turn towards it and suckle

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Authoritarian Personality

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Person who is unquestioning/obedient and submissive to external authority and in doing this oppresses out-groups

80
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Premack Principle

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More probable behaviors will reinforce less probably behaviors

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Loftus creating false memories

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25% of students remembered false events, and if they did they were usually quite confident in it

82
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Stats test for two continuous measures

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t tests on the two means

83
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Oligodendrocyte

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The type of Glial Cell responsible for producing myelin sheaths

84
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Propinquity

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proximity (being close to someone)

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