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Psychologist who introduced the concept of reinforcement

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B.F Skinner

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Mental process, such as dream or memory

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Cognitive activity

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School of psychology that looks at basic elements of conscious experience

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Structuralism

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Contemporary psychological approach emphasizes study of ethnicity,gender,culture and socioeconomic status

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Sociocultural perspective

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Founder of school of behaviorism

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John B. Watson

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Philosopher who stressed the importance of introspection

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Socrates

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Founded structuralism

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Wilhelm Wundt

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School of psychology that describes experience as a whole rather than broken down into parts

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Gestalt psychology

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Action that can be observed or measured

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Behavior

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Wrote first modern psychology textbook

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William James

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Contemporary school of psychology interested in information processing

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Cognitive perspective

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Early psychologist who influenced the psychoanalytic perspective

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Sigmund Freud

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Modern psychiatrist who influenced the biosychosocial approach

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George Engel

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Established the first psychology laboratory

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Roots of biological perspective

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Associationism

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Area studied by sociocultural theorists

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Economic status and gender

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Contemporary school of psychology that focuses on consciousness and self fulfillment

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Humanistic perspective

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Belief that people choose to emulate what they have observed

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Social learning theory

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Contemporary school of psychology influenced by Charles Darwin

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Evolutionary perspective

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School of psychology that emphasizes the effects of experience on behavior

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Learning perspective

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Whole group that is the subject of a study

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Target population

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Example in which subgroups of a population are represented proportionally

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Stratified sample

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In depth investigation of an individual or group

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Case study

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Research method in which participants are observed over a long period of time

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Longitudinal method

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Measure of how closely one thing is to another

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Correlation

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Method of gathering information by distributing questionnaires

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Survey

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Groups of individuals selected by chance from target population

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Random sample

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Observation method that enables researchers to control the environment

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Laboratory observation

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People in an experiment who do not get the treatment

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Control group

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Experiment in which only researchers know who is getting the treatment

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Single blind study

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Participants or clients right to privacy

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Confidentiality

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Factors in an experiment that researchers manipulate

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Independent variable

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Measure of distance of every score to mean

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Standard deviation

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Standards for proper and responsible behavior

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Ethics

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Experiment in which only the organizer knows who is receiving the treatment

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Double blind study

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Predisposition to a certain POV despite what facts may suggest

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Bias

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Substance or treatment that has no effect apart from persons belief in it

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Placebo

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Nerve cell

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Neurons

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White fatty substance that insulates and protects the axon

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Myelin

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Chemicals such as acetylcholine and dopamine

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Neurotransmitters

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Produce energy to fuel cell activity

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Cell body

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Transmits messages away from cell body

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Axon

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Governs involuntary muscles and internal organs

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Autonomic nervous system

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Carries messages from brain to specific muscles

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Spinal cord

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Transmits messages between the central nervous system and all parts of the body

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Peripheral nervous system

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Little brain in Latin involved in balance and coordination

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Cerebellum

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Part of hind brain involved in heart rate, blood pressure and breathing

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Medulla

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Tiny vital to regulation of body temperature, storage of nutrients and various aspects of motivation and emotions

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Hypothalamus

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Forms a border around brain stem and is involved in survival behaviors

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Limbic system

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Involved in regulating body movement attention sleep and alertness

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Pons

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Outer layer of brain from Latin word for bark

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Cerebral cortex

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Structure that connects the two hemispheres of the brain

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Corpus callosum

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Relay station for sensory stimulation including sight and hearing

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Thalamus

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Makes possible learning of complex information and abstract thinking

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Cerebrum

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Where information is shaped into something meaningful provides core of working memory

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Association area

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Opening in the colored part of the eye

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Pupil

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Bony tube in the inner ear that contains fluids and neurons

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Cochlea

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Illusion of movement produced by a rapid progression of images

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Stroboscopic motion

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Sensitive surface of the eye that acts likes the flim in a camera

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Retina

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Nerve that sends information about odors to the brain

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Olfactory nerve

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Minimum amount of difference that can be detected between two stimuli

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Difference threshold

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Neuron sensitive to light

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Photorecepters

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Perceptual preference for seeing smooth continuous patterns

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Continuity

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Weakest amount of a stimulus that can be sensed

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Absolute threshold

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Tendency to perceive a whole figure even when there are gaps in sensory input

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Closure

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Requires two eyes to be seen

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Binocular cue

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Process by which we become more sensitive to weak stimuli and less sensitive to unchanging stimuli

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Sensory adaptation

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Restricts the passage of competing messages to the brain

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Gate theory

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Tells people about the motion and position of their body

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Kinesthesis

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Reflects learning expectations and attuides

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Perception

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Transmits neural impulses from the cochlea to the brain

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Auditory nerve

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Takes in account the setting a person's physical state mood and attuides

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Single detection theory

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Tendency to perceive objects as keeping their color even of changing lights alter appearance of their color

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Color constancy

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Enables people to keep their balance

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Vestibular sense

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Usually cause by damage to the inner ear

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Sensorineural deafness

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Being aware of sights sounds and smells in the environment

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Sensory awareness

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Ideas that are not available to awareness under most circumstances

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Unconscious

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Refers to biological functions that are never in awareness

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Nonconcious

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Concept or model of something cannot be seen or touched

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Construct

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Common altered state of consciousness experienced by most daily

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Sleep

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Ideas that are not in awareness but can be recalled

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Preconscious

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Strategies use to push painful or unacceptable ideas out of consciousness

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Defense mechanism

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Awareness of things both inside and outside ourselves

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Consciousness

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State in which a person's sense of self changes

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Sense of self

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awareness of emotions thoughts memories and images

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Direct inner awareness

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Release the hormone adrenaline and cause heart rate to go up

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Nicotine

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Club drug that produces hallucinations increased energy and impaired judgement

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Ecstasy

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Type of depressant used to relieve pain

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Narcotic

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Craving for a drug that develops after taking it awhile

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Addiction

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Drunkenness

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Intoxication

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False idea seems real

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Delusion

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Can cause serve long term health effects including gum diseases and tooth decay

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Methamphetamine

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Can be a long term effects of LSD

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Flashback

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Drug produced from the cannabis saliva plant

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Hashish

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Perception of an object or a sound that seems real but isn't

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Hallucination

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Form of classical conditioning in which food comes to be avoided

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Taste aversion

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Act of responding in the same way to a stimuli that seems familiar

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Generalization

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Method of overcoming dears by pairing a pleasing stimulus with a fear one

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Counterconditiong

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Methods that involves relaxation and gradual exposure to a feared stimuli

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Systematic desensitization

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Form of learning based on consequences of actions

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Operant conditioning

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When a conditioned response stops occurring

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Extinction

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Stimulus cause automatic response

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Unconditioned responsed

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Stimulus that encourages a behavior by meeting a m organisms biological needs

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Primary reinforcement

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Act of responding differently to stimuli that are no similar

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Discrimination

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Revival of an extinguished responsed

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Spontaneous recovery

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Increase the frequency of the behavior that follows when they are removed

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Negative reinforces

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Intervals schedules and ratio schedules are example of this

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Partial reinforcement

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When this chores the timing of the next reinforcement is unpredictable

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Interval schedule

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Learning in which each step of a sequence is learned and leads to the next

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Chaining

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Learning that is hidden until needed

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Latent learning

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Trying to learn all at once

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Massed learning

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Form of behavior modification thay pays people to act correctly

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Token economy

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Modeling is a form of this learning

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Observational learning

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Type of learning that is spread out

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Distributed learning

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Behavior modification in which a person sets goals and creates a system of rewards to encourage them the desired behavior

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Personal contact

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Expression of psychological distress through physical symptoms

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Somatization

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Psychological disorder characterized by loss of contact with reality

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Schizophrenia

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Unrealistic preoccupation the fear that one has a serious diseases

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Hypochindriasis

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Mood disorder involving a cycle of mood changing

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Bipolar

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Coma like state

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Catatonic stupor

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Anxiety disorder involving a persistent or irrational fear

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Phobia

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Clusters of symptoms that are recognizable I'm some culture

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Culture bound syndromes

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Separation of personality traits or mental process from conscious though

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Dissociation

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Intense persistent feeling of anxiety cause by traumatic accident

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PTSD

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Dissociated disorder involving feelings of detachment from self

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Depersonalization

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Symptoms include deep fear of people and odd behaviors

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Schizotypal

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Lack insterst in relationships with others

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Schizoid

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Fear of doing or saying something foolish

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Avoidant

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Self mutilation

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Borderline

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Suspicion and distrust of others

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Paranoid

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Preoccupation with fantasies of personal success

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Narcissistic

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Inflexibility and fixation on rules

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Obsessive compulsive

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Disregard for and violation of others

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Antisocial