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Social psychology |
The study of the ways in which the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of one individual are influenced by real, imagined, or inferred behavior or characteristics of other people |
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Asch's conformity experiment |
Under circumstances people will conform to group pressures even if this action forces them to deny obvious physical evidence |
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Milgram's obedience experiment |
How far some people will go to obey authority |
Cop vs. milkman |
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Obedience |
A compliance with a direct order, generally from a person in authority, such as police officer, principal or parent |
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Social cognition |
Collecting; assessing; information about others |
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Attribution |
How people judge themselves vs. other people |
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Psychobiology |
The area of psychology that focuses on the biological foundation of behavior and mental processes |
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Neurons |
The messenger Sensory- neurons that carry messages from spinal chord or brain Motor- neurons that carry messages from the spinal chord or the brain to the muscles or glands |
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Neural plascity |
The ability of the brain to change in response to the experience |
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Central nervous system |
Brain and spinal chord |
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Peripheral nervous system |
Autonomic nervous system: Sympathetic Parasympathetic |
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Peripheral nervous system |
Somatic nervous system Voluntary |
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Autonomic nervous system |
Involuntary |
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Sympathetic |
Active in emergency |
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Parasystematic |
Sleeping, restoring |
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HSAN |
hereditary, sensory, autonomic, neuropathy...
Does not feel pain Pain sensors did not fully grow |
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Sensations |
The experience of sensory stimulation. |
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