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59 Cards in this Set
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What is it called when scientists need to describe their operations in terms of operations of measurement?
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Operational Definitions
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What is tenative explanations of facts of relationships in science?
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Theory
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What is prediction based on a theory that is tested on a study?
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Hypothesis
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What are interviews and questioner's?
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Survey method
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Recording behavior in natural life settings
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Naturalistic observation
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This is the only way you can identify cause and effect..
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Formal experiment
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This is an important part of the nervous system. It's in an individual nerve cell. Body has 100 billion of them..
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Neurons
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This is the central part of the neuron that includes the nucleus that transfers dendrites and axons.
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Cell body
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A space between the neurons
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Synaptic gap
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Chemical substances that carry neuro messages across the semnaptic gap
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Neurotransmitters
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Consists of two things; the brain and the spinal cord
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Central nervous system
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The lowest part of the brain located at the base of the skull.
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Hind brain
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This is the swelling just above the spinal cord that controls breathing, refluxes and upright posture.
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Medulla
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Regulates body temperature, sleep, stomach & digestion, blood pressure & heart.
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Hypothalamus
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Records the electrical activity.
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EEG electroencephalogram
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Shows detailed views of brain, structure and function
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MRI Magnetic Resonance Image
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These receive stimuli from our world.
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Sense organs
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The sense organs receive outside forms of energy and that is called...
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Sensation
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The process of organizing and interpretating from the outside world is called...
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Perception
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The smallest magnitude of two stinulas that can be detected half the time is called....
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Difference Threshold
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The coler part of the eye which regulates how much light passes thru the pupil?
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Iris
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The increase sensitivity of the eye in semi darkness, following an abrupt reduction in overall illumiation.
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Dark adaptation
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Regaining sensitivity of the eye to bright light following an abrupt increase in overall allumiation
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Light adaptation
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This is the sense that detects vibrations in the air. Known as the sound waves which is the stimulus.
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Hearing
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Located in the muscle joints and skin. They provide messages for movement and posture.
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Kinesthetic Receptors
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This is the sense of taste..
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Gustation
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What is a complex combination of states, some involving conscious awareness?
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Sleep
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What is it when you are being in two places mentally at the same time?
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Divided Consciousness
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What is it when we daydream for a while and then pass into a twilight state, neigher daydreaming nor dreaming?
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Hypnogogic State
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The back flow to the heart increases the heartbeat and becomes irregular. The muscles of the face and fingers twitch.
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Autonomic Storms
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What is the sudden interruption of breathing during sleep? Chuck has this...
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Sleep apnea (people can die from this)
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What began in Russia- turn of 20th century...Was the accidental discovery of Ivan Pavlov.
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Classical Conditioning
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What is learning from the consequences from your behavior. 3 ways: positive, negative & reinforcement.
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Operant Conditioning
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This is any consequence of behavior that leads to an increase in the probability of its occurance.
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Positive reinforcement
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Anete positive reinforcers that do not need to be acquired through learning.
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Primary Reinforcers
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What is secondary reinforcers?
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You defined it as, "I learned positive reinforcers." ???
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What is the strategy of positive reinforcing behaviors that are successfully more similar to desired behaviors?
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Shaping
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What is it when the behavior causes the negative event to stop?
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Escape conditioning
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What is the behavior that has the consequence of something negative that otherwise would have happened?
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Avoidance conditioning
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What is a negative consequence that leads to a decrease in frequency of the behavior that produces it?
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Punishment
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What are the 3 stages of memory?
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1) meets need 2 store info of diff lengths of time. 2) Sensory register 3) Short term and long term memory
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What is information that can be renewed in STM by mental repetition or recalling of information?
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Rehearsal
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What are units of memory?
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Chunking
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What is memory for motor movements and skills?
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Procedural memory
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What is memory for meaning without reference to the time and place of learning?
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Semantic memory
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What memory stores specific times and places of exerpeince that can be defined in terms of tiem and space?
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Episodic memory
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The intellectual processes such as perception, memory, thinking, laguage where info is obtained transforms, stored and retreived thru process of memory is called...
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Cognition
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What are 3 facets of cognition?
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1) __________ information,
2) active 3) useful |
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What is the presense of two or more common characteristics at the same time?
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Conjunctive concepts
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What are the presence of one common characteristic ______ one or both?
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Disjunctive concepts
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What is logical, organized, partially directed and unconventional?
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Divergent thinking
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What is the smallest unit of sound of a language?
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Phonemes
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The rules of the language that allows an infinate number of understandable utterances to be generated?
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Syntax
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What is the ability to process information quick and deal with new kinds of problems?
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Fluid intelligence
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What is the ability to use previously learned information and skills to solve familiar problems?
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Crystallized intelligence.
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What is anterior retro amnesia?
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What are the parts of forgetting?
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What is pinna?
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What is watson and little baby rats?
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