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What is Psychology?

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Is the science of behavior and metal processes. Methods of evaluating ideas than set facts

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Case Study

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An observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles

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Survey

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A technique for ascertaining the self-reported attitudes or behaviors of people, usually by questioning a representative, random sample of them.

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Random sample

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A sample that fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion

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Correlational research

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A statistical measure of the extent to which two factors vary together, and thus of how well either factor predicts the other.

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Naturalistic observation

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Observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situation without trying to manipulate and control the situation

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Independent variable

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the experimental factor that is manipulated, the variable whose effect is being studied.

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Dependent variable

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the experimental factor - in psychology the behavior or mental process that is being measured; the variable that may change the response to manipulation of the independent variable.

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Experimental/Control condition

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the condition of an experiment that exposes participants to the treatment, that is, to one version of the independent variable.

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Double - Blind Studies

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An experimental procedure in which both the research participants and the research staff are ignorant(blind) about whether the research participant have receiver the treatment or a placebo. Commonly used in drug-evaluation studies

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The neuron

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Its building blocks, or nerve cells

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Cell body

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The cells life support center

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Dendrites

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receive messages from other cells

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Axon

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Passes messengers away from the cell body to another neurons, muscle, glands

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Neural impulse

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electrical signal traveling down the axon.

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Terminal Branches of axon

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form junction with other cells

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Myelin sheath

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covers the axon of some neurons and helps speed neural impulses.

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Action Potential

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a neural impulse; a brief electrical charge that travels down an axon. The action potential is generated by the movement of positively charged atoms in and out of channels in the axons membrane

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Synapse

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the junction between the axon tip of the sending neuron and the receiving neuron. The tiny gap at this junction is called the synaptic gap or cleft.

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Central nervous system

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The brain and the spinal cord

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Peripheral Nervous system

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the sensory and motor neurons that connects the central nervous system (CNS) to the rest of the body.

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Sympathetic nervous system

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arouse you for defense action, alarms, enrages, accelerate your heartbeat.

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Parasympathetic nervous system

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the division of the autonomic nervous system that calms the body, conserving energy.

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Somatic Nervous

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Controls the glands movements of our skeletal muscles.

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Autonomic nervous

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controls glands and muscles internally (self regulating).

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Medulla

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the base of the brain-stem; controls heartbeat and breathing.

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reticular formation

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a nerve network in the brain-stem that plays an important role in controlling arousal.

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Cerebellum

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the "little brain" attached to the rear of the brain-stem; it help coordinate voluntary movement and balance.

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Limbic system

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a doughnut shaped system of neural structures at the border of the brain-stem and cerebral hemispheres associated with emotion such as fear and aggression and drives such a those for food and sex. Includes the hippocampus, amygdala, and hypothalamus.

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Neurotransmitter

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chemical messenger that traverse the synaptic gap between neurons when released by the sending neuron and travels across the synapse to bind with a receptor site.

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Hippocampus

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a neural center located in the limbic system that helps process explicit memories for storage.

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Hypothalamus

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a neural structure lying below hypo- it directs several maintenance activities( eat, drink, body temp.) helps the endocrine system via the pituitary gland.

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Corpus Callosum

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the large band of neural fibers connecting the two brain hemispheres and carrying messages between them.

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Cognition

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all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating

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Rooting reflex

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a baby's tendency, when touched on the cheek, to open the mouth and search for the nipple

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Placebo effect

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an inert substance or condition that may be administered instead of a presumed active agent, such as a drug, to see if it trigger the effects believed to characterize the active agent.