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temperament |
stable individual differences in emotional reactivity |
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this system is believed to regulate our response to rewards |
Behavioral activation system (BAS) |
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Angelmans Syndrome |
People who are diagnose with this syndrtome are almost always happy and cheerful |
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What is Eugenics |
The movement began by Francis Galton that advocated the improvement of human hereditary traits through the promotion of higher reproduction of more desire people and traits, and reduced reproduction of less desired people and traits |
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neurotransmitters |
the chemical nerves use to communicate |
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regulates emotional responses, prioritizes, and anticipates for the future |
frontal lobe |
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origin of basic emotions and motivation |
amygdalia |
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damage to this hemisphere often results in wild mood swings and energy level |
right hemisphere |
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damage to this hemisphere may result in schizophrenic like symptoms, characterized by disorganized and illogical thinking |
left hemisphere |
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accidental damage deliberate damage imaging |
ways to study the brain |
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WHo is Hans Eysenck |
this person theorized that some people seek stimulation because they experienced a low level of brain arousal, while other people shy away from stimulation because they have high level of brain arousal |
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This person theorized that if behavior changes the environment is a good way, the animal is more likely to perform that same behavior |
B.F. Skinner |
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This person theorizes that by pairing a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus you could achieve a conditioned response |
Ivan Pavlov |
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This person theorized about the level of control people think they have over their outcomes |
Julian Rotter |
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This person theorizes that each of us tries to make sense of our world by drawing on a unique set of constructs or lenses through which to frame reality |
George Kelly |
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Lewin"fiel theory" focused on the separateness vs. overlaping nature of aspects of a person's life, which he called______ |
life space |
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this theory suggests that there are four basic processes for learning, Attention, Retention, Reproduction/Immitation, and Motivation |
social learning theory |
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Stereotypes and prejudice are examples of the useful process of _______becoming harmful |
categorization |
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This theory posits that people actively endeavor to make sense of their worllds |
personal construct theory |
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When behavior is learnes after seeing another person perform the behavior, this is called____ |
observational learning |
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In Pavlov's early classical conditioning experiments, food was the ______ and a bell which was originally a neutral stimulus became a _______ when paired with the food |
Unconditioned stimulus conditioned stimulus |
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Behaviorism rejects this information gathering technique |
introspection |
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Acquired responses to situation similar to an original situations that induced a certain feeling |
secondary or acquired drives |
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the expectation about how competent you'll be able to perform a certain behavior in a certain situation |
self-efficacy |
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the theory that aggression is the result of blocking a persons effort to attain a goal |
frustration-aggression hypothesis |
