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37 Cards in this Set
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What are the two types of long term memory?
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1) Explicit
2) Implicit |
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What is the parietal lobe in charge of?
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Sensory
-touch -pain -preasure |
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What is the occipital lobe in charge of?
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visual areas
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What is the frontal lobe in charge of?
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planning, and organizing areas
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What is the temporal lobe in charge of?
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audio areas
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What is the corpus callosum?
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axon fibers connecting two cerebral hemispheres.
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What is the cerebral cortex?
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ultimate control and information-processing center.
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What is the cerebellum?
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coordinates voluntary movement and balance.
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What is the thalamus?
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relays messeges between lower brain centers and cerebral cortex.
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What is the Medulla?
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controls heartbeat and breathing
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What are the three ways to encode?
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1) semantic
2) auoustic 3) visual |
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What is the hippocampus?
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a structure linked to memory.
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What is the hypothalamus?
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controls maintenance functions such as eating. Also linked to emotion and reward.
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What are types of hard science?
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zooology, physics, bio
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What are types of soft science?
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behavior, attitudes, emotions. (sociology, and pyscology)
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What is the dialectical Approach?
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there is no meaning or knowledge without opposition.
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What are the 5 facotrs that affect social interactions?
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1) actions and characteristics of others
2) cognotive process 3) ecological factors 4) biological 5) cultural |
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What are Psyc's big 3 issues?
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1) Stability vs. change
2) Nature vs. Nurture 3) Rational vs. Irrational |
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What did Plato believe?
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The mind is seperate from the body. Knowledge is built from within.
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What did Aristolte believe?
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The mind is not seperate from the body. Knowledge grows through experience.
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What did Francis Bacon believe?
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the mind desires to precieve patterns.
ex: stereotypes |
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John Loke believed?
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The mind is a blank state!
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What are the 3 schools of psycology?
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1) Structuralism
2) Psycoanalysis 3) Behavioralism |
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What are 3 types of case studies?
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1) individual
2) group 3) event |
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What is a non-experiemental research?
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nothing minipulated in the research
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What are 4 types of non-experiemental research?
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1) Naturalistic Observation
2) Case Study 3) Survey 4) Correlation |
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What are the 4 parts to experimental research?
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1) experimental condition
2) control condition 3) random assingment 4) double blind procedure |
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What is the independent variable?
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what is being minipulated in the study
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What is the dependent variable?
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measured behavior
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What is a variable?
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anything that can be rated, measuredm or scored.
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What are the two parts of the nervous system?
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1) Peripheral
2) Central |
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What is in the Central Nerovus System?
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brain and spinal cord.
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What are the two parts to the peripheral nervous system?
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Autonomic and Somatic
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What does tip-of-the tounge mean?
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process with the retrival NOT encoding.
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What does recall mean?
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finding information and remembering it from your brain.
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What does recognition mean?
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looking at choices and remembering.
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What are 2 ways to encode?
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Automatic---little effort
Effortful---rehersal |
