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Define Psychology.
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Is the science of behaviour and mental processing to understand what we think, feel, dream, sense and perceive.
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Define Developmental Psychology.
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Explores physical, emotional, cognitive, and social aspects of development. The studies of systems to which be webbing our story of human development by considering the important events that occur well before the child takes its first breath.
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What are the three parts to Freud's model of the brain?
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1. The Conscious
2. The Preconscious 3. The Unconscious |
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Describe Psychodynamic Theory.
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Personality is shaped by unconscious forces and conflicts.
Freud believes that our personality is the sum of total behaviour patterns that define you as a unique individual and characterize the ways in which you relate to the world and adapt to demands placed upon you. |
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Define The psychodynamic perspective
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View that behaviour is influenced by the struggle between unconscious sexual or aggressive impulses and/or opposing forces that tries to keep threatening material out of consciousness
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Behavioural Perspective
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Role of learning in explaining observable behaviour.
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Correlation values range between what values
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-1 and 1
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T/F Correlation dictates cause and effect
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False
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T/F Experimental group does not receive treatment
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False
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Explain the difference between double blind and single blind research studies.
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Single bllind studies are when the participants are not aware of whether they recieve treatment or not (Placebo). In double bind neither the particpants or the researcher knows who is getting the treatment.
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Control groups are useful why?
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Ensuring that the independent variable is isolated.
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A survey collects information from a part of the population. T/F
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True
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Experiments begin with a test. T/F
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False. They begin with a Hypothesis.
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Three Components of a Neuron cell
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Axon
Soma Dendrite |
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Which part of a neuron transmits messages to other neurons?
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Axon
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______ is a small fluid-filled ______ between _______ through which neurotransmitters carry ____________
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Synapse, Gap, Neurons, Neural Impulses
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Give two functions of the Myelin sheath.
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Protective insulation, Speeds Transmission of Messages
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The Dendrite _______ information.
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Recieves
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Afferent Neurons serve what purpose in the body?
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They recieve information from sense organs and sends it to the spinal cord which leads to the brain.
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Name the three types of Neurons in the body.
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Afferent Neurons
Motor Neurons Interneurons |
