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1.1-1.13: Welcome to Psychology
The scientific study of mind and ...,
A collection of beliefs or practi...,
The available body of facts or in...
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2.1-2.11: What Makes Psychology a Science? & Three Kinds of Research
When a study is conducted more th...,
A periodical containing peer revi...,
The specific way of measuring or ...
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2.12-2.22: Identifying Good Research & Using Statistics to Analyze Results & Conducting Research Ethically
The appropriateness or accuracy o...,
The specific assessment of how ac...,
The degree to which a measure yie...
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3.1-3.3: The Nervous Systems
What are cellular building blocks...,
What is the field of study that e...,
What is the outermost layer of ti...
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3.4-3.5: The Endocrine System and the Cerebral Cortex
What are blood borne chemicals th...,
What is the system made up of a n...,
What is the name for the endocrin...
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3.6-3.7: The Subcortical Brain, the Brainstem, and the Cerebellum
What system is often associated w...,
What component of the limbic syst...,
What component of the limbic syst...
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3.8-3.13: Mapping the Brain
Cognitive processes that allow us...,
The bridge of fibers that connect...,
The opposite side organization of...
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3.14-3.17: Neuron Communication
The part of the neuron that recei...,
The part of the neuron that colle...,
The part of the neuron that trans...
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3.18-3.20: Genes and Brain Development
The observable characteristics of...,
The genetic makeup of an organism...,
A variant form of a gene humans h...
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4.1-4.4: Sensory and Perceptual Systems
The process by which our sensory ...,
The transformation of sensory sti...,
The processing of electrical sign...
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4.5-4.12: Vision 101
The distance between between any ...,
The number of cycles per second o...,
The height of the crests of a wave
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4.13-4.16: Sound 101
The perceptual quality of sound t...,
The portion of the ear containing...,
Three tiny bones in the ear the h...
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4.17-4.20: Touch, Body States, Smell, and Taste
The sense of touch,
The region of the brain where the...,
A depiction of how the body is re...
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4.21-4.25: Perception
A school of psychological thought...,
Depth information gathered from t...,
The magnitude of difference betwe...
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5.1-5.6: Consciousness, Awareness, and Arousal
The moment by moment awareness of...,
The process of examining one s ow...,
The act of focusing one s attenti...
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5.7-5.11: Sleep and Dreams
A regularly occurring state of al...,
A rhythmic pattern of high freque...,
A rhythmic pattern of low frequen...
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5.12-5.18: Chemically Altered Consciousness, Hypnosis, and Meditation
Chemical substances that later a ...,
The diminished response to a drug...,
Unpleasant physical symptoms that...
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6.1-6.7: How Our Environmental Influences What We Learn
An enduring change in behavior re...,
A form of learning that involves ...,
A form of learning that involves ...
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6.8-6.12: How We Learn to Influence Our Environment
A mechanism by which our behavior...,
The idea that behavior is a funct...,
A consequence that increases the ...
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6.13-6.19: Learning Without Reinforcement & How We Learn From Others
A form of noncontingent reinforce...,
Learning that occurs without eith...,
A form of learning that occurs wi...
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7.1-7.6: The Dynamic Nature of Memory & Fleeting Memories
The capacity to store and retriev...,
The process of taking information...,
The maintenance of information in...
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7.7-7.13: Enduring Memories & Varieties of Long-Term Memory
The loss of memory due to brain d...,
The inability to transfer informa...,
A form of amnesia in which access...
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7.14-7.19: Retrieving the Past & Forgetting
Accessing information from memory...,
Information related to stored mem...,
A form of retrieval that is facil...
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8.1-8.9: How People Think
All of the mental activities asso...,
The scientific study of mental ac...,
An internal mental symbol that st...
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8.10-8.15: Language: A Tool for Thinking and Sharing Thoughts
A shared system of symbols includ...,
The smallest unit of language suc...,
The smallest unit of language tha...
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8.16-8.22: How Thinking Varies: Intelligence
The capability to think abstractl...,
A statistical technique developed...,
A general mental ability that cha...
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9.1-9.7 Perspectives on Motivation & Hunger and Eating
A force that leads an individual ...,
A genetically endowed tendency to...,
The body s tendency to maintain i...
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9.8-9.13: Sexual Motivation and Behavior & Higher Motives
A mammal s period of sexual recep...,
This perspective holds that sexua...,
A motivational stance that focuse...
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9.14-9.18: Emotion
The coordinated behaviors feeling...,
Cultural rules that govern the ex...,
An approach to analyzing emotions...
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9.19-9.21: Self-control
The attempt to modify automatic o...,
The ability to engage in self con...,
According to this model self regu...
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10.1-10.7: The Mind-Body Connection & Stress
An interdisciplinary field that i...,
A way of understanding what makes...,
A physiological response to an en...
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10.8-10.24: Consequences of Stress for Health & Risk and Resilience: Whose Health Is Hit the Hardest by Stress? & Coping with Stress & Promoting Healthy Behavior
The sustained activation of many ...,
Molecules released as part of the...,
A phenomenon whereby alcohol into...
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11.1-11.6: Studying Human Development & Development From Conception to Birth
The scientific study of how peopl...,
Distinct segments of an organism ...,
A series of biological growth pro...
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11.7-11.17: Infancy & Childhood
Changes in the ability to coordin...,
Changes in all of the mental acti...,
Concepts or mental models that re...
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11.18-11.24: Adolescence & Adulthood and Aging
The period of transition between ...,
The period of sexual maturation d...,
Body structures such as ovaries t...
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12.1-12.5: A Science of Personality: Early Approaches
Patterns of thought and behavior ...,
Thoughts and feelings that fall b...,
The component of personality in f...
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12.6-12.18: Trait Perspectives on Personality & Social Cognitive Perspectives on Personality
The hypothesis that the traits th...,
A statistical technique that grou...,
The process of developing and val...
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12.19-12.22: Exploring the Self
The process of fulfilling one s t...,
A theory positing that well being...,
The broad network of mental repre...
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