Psych

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The study of behavior and mental processes.

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Psychology

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The focus on uncovering the fundamental mental components of thinking and other kinds of mental states.

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Structuralism

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Procedure used to study the structure of the mind in which subjects are asked to describe in detail in what happened.

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Introspection

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Concentrated on what the mind does and the role of behavior in people adapting to their environment.

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Functionalism

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Focuses on the organization of perception and thinking in a whole sense.

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Gestalt

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Views behavior from the perspective of biological functioning.

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Neuroscience

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Examines on how people understand and think about the world.

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Cognitive

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Contends that people can control their behavior and can reach their full potential.

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Humanistic

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Believes that behavior is motivated by inner unconscious forces that a person has little control over.

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Psychodynamic

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Represents the strength and direction of the relationship between 2 variables.

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Correlation Coefficient

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Inability to demonstrate cause and effect relationship.

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Drawback

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Investigation of the relationship between 2 or more variables.

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Experiment

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Change that an experimenter provides in a situation.

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Experimental Manipulation

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Receives treatment.

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Experimental Group

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No treatment.

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Control Group

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The variable that is changed by the experimenter.

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Independent Variable

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The variable that is measured to change.

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Dependent Variable

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Pleasure, Voluntary movement.

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Dopamine

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Accelerates heart beat, linked to learning and remembering.

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Epinephrine

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Sleeping, eating, mood, pain, and depression.

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Serotonin

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Connected to pain.

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Endorphins

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The simulation of sensory factors of sensory info to the control nervous system.

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Sensation

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Process by which sensations are organized and interpreted.

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Perception

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Provides color vision.

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Cones

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Black and white vision and sensitive to dim light.

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Rods

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Sensations of color are followed by perception of when color is removed.

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Afterimage

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Expressed in Hertz.

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Pitch

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Amp waves and expressed in decibels.

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Volume

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Odors are sample molecules of substances in the air, closest sense tied to memory.

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Smell

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Sweet, sour, bitter, salty.

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Taste

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Located just under the skin.

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Temperature Receptors

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Sharpest where the nerves end and it can be felt differently within the body.

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Pain

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Needs to be swift, sufficient and certain.

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Punishment

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Holds image until it can be processed.

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Sensory Memory

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Holds information until it can be processed.

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Short Term Memory

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Information is stored, has everything we know.

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Long Term Memory

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Motor movement and skills.

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Procedural

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Experiences defined in time and space.

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Episodic

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What we know, Knowledge.

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Semantic

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Unable to remember events that occur prior to physical trauma.

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Retrograde Amnesia

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Unable to remember events that occur after physical trauma.

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Anterograde Amnesia