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1
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All or none law

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Either an action potential sends or it doesnt

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Action Potential

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Electrical current that causes neuron to fire information when its above -50mv

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Resting Potential

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Charge before firing (70mv)

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Working Memory

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The memory you use to solve something in a short amount of time.

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Incidental Learning

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Learning without trying

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Intentional Learning

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Purposefully learning material

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Metacognition

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Thinking about the way we think

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Transfer Appropriate Testing

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Practice how you play…. study like you test

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Systematic Observation

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Observation of the world with the aim to better it

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Empirical Methods

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Approaches to inquiry that are tied to actual measurement

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Clinical research

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Field of psychology that focuses on everyday people and therapy

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Organizational Psychology

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Psychologists who work in businesses to make them more efficient

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Informed Consent

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Written document informing participant’s of experiment that they have to sign

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Confidentiality

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Info in the study is secure from the public and isn’t linked to the individual person

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Privacy

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You cannot observe participants in private and information can’t be observed without their consent

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Experimental Research

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Variables are manipulated and we can infer causality

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Correlational Research

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Measurements are taken but there is no manipulation. We can infer relationship but not causality

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Confounding Variables

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Variables that aren’t part of the study but could impact the outcome

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Correlation Coefficient

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r represents the strength in which things are correlated. The closer to 1 or -1, the stronger the correlations whether positive or negative

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Naturalistic Observation/ Ethnography

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We go into nature and look at what happens

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Case Study

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Learn as much as possible from one single person

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Narrative Analysis

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Look at different cultures and combine them to create one big story

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Quasi-Experimental

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When you can’t use random assignment like with gender and marriage

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Longitudinal design

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Observing different groups over a long period of time

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Internal Validity

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Results show a relationship between the independent and dependent variables. Cofounding variables have been eliminated.

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External validity

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The extent to which results generalize to the entire population

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Ecological validity

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The extent to which an effect has been obtained under real life conditions (Labs often don’t generalize to real life)

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Experience Sampling

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Sampling independent experiences from throughout the day

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Ecological Momentary Assessment

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You capture a momentary analysis at a specific time

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Day reconstruction method

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When you talk about your day, and you break it up into small segments…then rate your experience

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EAR (electronically activated recorder)

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A device that someone wears that go off at certain intervals. Records and takes pictures

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Daily Physiology

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Captures functions such as heartrate and breathing

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Dendrites

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Cluster of fibers on one end of a neuron that receives information from other neurons

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Axon

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The message from dendrites is sent to another neuron

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Myelin Sheaths

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Clumps of fatty tissue that insulates and increases speed of action potential

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Synapse

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End of axon that sends messages to other neurons

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Terminal Button

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End of axon

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Synaptic gap

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Space between the synapse and the dendrite of another neuron

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Synaptic Vesicles

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Little storage pods that hold neurotransmitters while they are released from axon to dendrite

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Neurotransmitters

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Chemicals in body that neurons use to communicate (dopamine, seretonin)

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Receptor Sites

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Where neurotransmitters are received at next neuron

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Lock and key reaction

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Neurotransmitters have to fit exactly into receptors

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Medulla

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Located in brain stem and regulates involuntary functions that we don’t have to think about

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Pons

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Transmits sensory and motor information to and from the brain

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Midbrain

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Contains reticular formation which deals with arousal and things that excite us (heartbeat)

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Amygdala

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Regulates emotion and ability to express fear

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Hippocampus

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Where our memories are stored, also deals with sense of smell

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Thalamus

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relay station for senses and tells information where to go

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Hypothalamus

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Deals with hormones and maintains homeostasis

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Prefrontal Cortex

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Sense of self and personality

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Cerebellum

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Controls movement and balance. We have this part of our brain much like many other organisms

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Corpus collosum

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Links the two brain hemispheres

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Contralateral representation

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Right side of brain controls left side and left side controls right side

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Left hemisphere of brain

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processing of language and logical thought

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right hemisphere

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creativity and abstract thought

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