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30 Cards in this Set
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Limbic System
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Responsible for controlling various functions in the body.
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Hippocampus
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Remembering Memories
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Amygdala
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Emotional and aggressive responses.
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Brain Stem
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Heart and respiration
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Eye Anatomy
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Retina:sensory tissue that lines back of the eye. Receptors.
Cones=Color vision Rods=Black and White vision |
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Information Processing
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Top-Down: Brain to body.
Bottom-Up: Body to brain. |
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Other Senses
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Olfaction=Smell
Gustation=Taste Kinesthetic=Posture and Body movements. |
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Suggestibility
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Distort memories, influence the memory of someone else, believe something different.
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Concepts
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A mental grouping of objects, events, or people.
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Heuristics
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A method used to rapidly come to a solution that is hoped to be close to the best possible answer. (Short Cut)
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Algorithm
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A set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps. (Step by Step)
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Language Development
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Cooing, babbling, telegraphic speech.
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Biological Rhythms
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Circadian (day to day).
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Drives
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Biological tension. Thirst or hunger.
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Motivation
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Urge to move towards or away form goal. Affiliation, achievement, belonging.
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Intrinsic Motivation
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Internal factors (it pleases me).
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Extrinsic Motivation
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External factors (money).
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Coping (Emotion-focused)
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Humor
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Type B Personality
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Less hectic, easy going, less stress.
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Trait
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A stable characteristic used to describe a person.
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Freud (preconscious)
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Id: Wants to be pleased/satisfied.
Superego: Wants to do what is right. Ego: Mediator, referee, middleman. |
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Trait Theory Five Factor Model
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Openness
Conscientiousness Extraversion Agreeableness Nerouticism |
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Object Permanence
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6-8 months, peek-a-boo
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Psychosocial Stages
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Erickson
Infancy (birth to 18 months) Trust VS Mistrust |
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Attributions
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Explaining behaviors
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Cognitive Dissonance
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Competing attitudes and behaviors (Fox and the Sour Grapes).
Usually change behavior or thought to reduce dissonance. |
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Stereotype
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Schemas of people's behaviors.
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Prejudice
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Negative or biased attitude.
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Discrimination
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Treatment towards. Acting on prejudice.
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Altruism
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Helping others, no reward for self. Door in the face. Socialization pressure.
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