Psych Final

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This part of the brain is responsible for reason, judgment, and processing of your experiences….

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Frontal Lobe or prefrontal cortex

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This area is responsible for human drives including hunger, thirst and sex drive

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Hypothalamus

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This area of the brain is the last to development which explains an adolescent tendency to be impulsive and have emotional disregulation

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Limbic System

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This insulates and nourishes neurons and may actually play a direct role in the transmission of neural signals.

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Glial cells ½ points for myelinated sheath

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The “all or nothing” principle of the action potential of a neuron means what……

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Neurons either fire at full strength or not at all

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The multi-layered tissue which lines the back of the eye and contains the visual receptor cells is call the what…

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retina

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Cones are responsible for what in the eye

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Color and precision vision in bright light

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If I go shopping for a swing set, I am able to recognize that a far away swing set, though it may look a few inches taller because of the distance from me, is actually the same size due to what theory…….

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Gestalt principle of size constancy

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In a person with conductive hearing loss, the most likely treatment will involve what?

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Hearing aid

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The ossicles consist of the smallest bones in the body which are…..

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Hammer, anvil and stirrup

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A testable prediction is called what

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hypothesis

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Telling potential participants in a research study enough about the study that the participates are able to make a sound decision about whether or not they wish to participate.

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Informed consent

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The variable that is manipulated in research and whose effects will be studied.

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Independent variable

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This person’s study was foundational in ensuring ethical guidelines to protect human research participates from undue harm

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Stanley Milgram

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This law states that rewarded behavior is likely to occur again and for double points name the person who coined it………

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Law of Effect-Thorndike

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This is the science of behavior and mental processes

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Psychology

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The subspecialty that deals with understanding and treating psychological difficulties is….

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Abnormal Psychology

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What does DSM stand for

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

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The primary goals of psychology include these three things…

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Describe, predict and manage or change behavior

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The three ideals that psychologists ascribe to are…….

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Objectivity, accuracy and healthy skepticism

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The researcher who accidentally discovered the phenomenon of classical conditioning while studying digestive processes in dogs….

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Ivan Pavlov

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Focus was on unconscious drives and desires and was often criticized for his focus on sex

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Freud

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Was famous for his research in operant conditioning

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BF Skinner

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He believed that drives were unconscious but all behavior was learned and that there were specific laws of learning

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Watson

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The psychologist that pioneered experiments involving observational learning was….

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Albert Bandura

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The deepest stage of sleep is:

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Delta sleep

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Dreams happen at what stage of sleep

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REM

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Memory encoding that requires attention and conscious work…..

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Effortful processing

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The part of the brain that is responsible for forming new memories

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Hippocampus

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The ability to only remember the good times or seeing things in a more favorable light is a phenomenon called…..

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Motivated forgetting

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The process of reinforcing behaviors which successively come close to the desired behavior until the full behavior is reached……

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Shaping

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Withdrawing a desirable stimulus

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Negative Punishment

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reinforces a response only after a specified time has elapsed.

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Fixed-interval schedule

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This is hard to extinguish because of the unpredictability.

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Variable-ratio schedule

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This type of learning is Not immediately expressed, Occurs without obvious reinforcementand is applied later

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Latent learning

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The area of psychology that studies how people grow and change or time

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Developmental Psychology

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An adolescent’s egocentric conviction that he or she cannot be overcome or even harmed by anything that might defeat a normal mortal

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Invincibility Fable

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The type of intelligence that remains reasonably stable over time if meaning continues to be attached…..

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Crystallized Intelligence

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The observable characteristic of a person, including appearance, personality, intelligence, and all other traits

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Phenotype

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This person was foundational in exploring developing stages that focused on social influences with the belief that development came out of internal versus external crisis……..

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Eric Erickson

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Foundational in creating the stages of cognitive development……200 points additional for each if you can name them….

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Piaget Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational and Formal Operational

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Schizophrenia is a disease of the ___ exhibited in the symptoms of the ______

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Brain, mind

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Name the criteria for ‘abnormal behavior’….

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Atyical, socially unacceptable and causes distress

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If someone is on a commitment they are responsible to answer and follow the recommendations of what dept….

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Human Services

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When someone loses touch with reality and experiences the unconscious creation of alternate personalities

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Dissociative Identity Disorder