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121 Cards in this Set
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Introspection |
Knowing yourself |
Socrates |
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Structuralism |
Study of conscious experience |
Wilheim Wundt |
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Functionalism |
Brain helps adapt |
William James |
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Behaviorism |
What we do not why |
John Watson |
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Reinforcement |
Rewards should encourags and punishment should discourage |
Skinner |
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Gestalt |
Learning is active and purposeful |
Koffka tested his color blindness |
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Psychoanalysis |
Importance of our unconscious motives on our behavior |
Freud |
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Biological |
Biological factors affect behavior and mental processes |
Genetics |
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Cognitive |
Perceptions and thoughts influence behavior |
Traces of many perspectives |
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Humanistic |
People make free conscious choices regarding our behavior |
You decide |
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Psychology |
Study of brain and behavior |
You not the group |
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Socioculture |
Social, biological, and psychological factors create behavior |
A+B+C=D |
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Neuron |
Transmits info to and from brain and to and from the body |
Brain powers |
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Neurotransmitter |
Chemicals that inhabit neurons and makes them fire |
Dophamine |
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Nervous system |
Chemicals, nerves, brain, spinal cord, control system of body |
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Centeral nervous system |
Brain and spinal cord |
CNS |
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Peripheral Nervous System |
Nerves and neurons that sends messages to and from CNS |
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Somatic Nervous System |
Transmits the 5 senses |
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Autonomic Nervous System |
Automatic functions |
Heartbeat and breathing |
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Sympathetic Nervous System |
Active during processes that restore energy |
Sleep |
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Parasympathetic Nervous System |
Active during processes that expend energy |
Anger |
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Medulla |
Part of Hindbrain that regulates breathing and blood pressure |
Mmeditate your Medulla |
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Pons |
Hindbrain that deals with attention and sleep to awareness transition |
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Cerebellum |
Part of Hindbrain that deals with posture, muscle tone, coordination, skills, and memory |
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Recticular Activating System |
Part of Midbrain that filters data and the sleep/awake transition |
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Thalamus |
Relay station for senses except smell |
I dont smell anything |
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Hypothalmus |
Part of Forebrain that deals with emotions and drives |
Hunger |
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Limbic System |
Part of Forebrain in charge of learning memory and aggression |
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Cerebrum |
Part of Forebrain in charge of learning language senses and movement |
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Applied Research |
Wants to find a solution to a problem |
Polar bears and global warming |
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Naturalistic Observation |
Observes in natural everyday settings |
Stalkers |
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Classical Conditioning |
Old stimulus replaced with new stimulus to get same response |
Pavlov's dog |
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Unconditioned Stimulus |
Unlearned stimulus that elicts a natural response |
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Conditioned stimulus |
Neutral stimulus because of pairing with unconditioned stimulus to cause response |
Bell |
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Conditioned Response |
Learned response to a previously neutral stimulus |
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Unconditioned response |
Natural response to an unconditioned stimulus |
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Clinical Psychology |
Help people that have major disorders adjust to the demands of life |
Severe Anxiety |
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Councelling |
Help people with less serious psychological issues |
Slight depression |
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School |
Helps identify and assist students that have problems learning |
IEP |
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Educational |
Helps school districts plan classes and teaching methods |
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Developmental |
Study changes throughout life |
Growth |
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Personality |
Define human traits and determineinfluences on thought and explain psychological disorders |
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Social |
Study nature and outside causes of behavior, thoughts, and feeling in social settings |
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Experimental |
Study basic processe |
Learning |
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Industrial |
relationship between person and work |
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Organizational |
Behavior of people in organizations |
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Human Factor |
Interaction of peoples, machines, and environment |
Factory |
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Consumer |
Study shopping to predict and influence behavior |
Marketing |
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Health |
Connection between mindset and health |
Hypochondriac |
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Sports |
Help athletes improve performance in sports |
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Pure Research |
Research done just to be done |
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Independent Variable |
Manipulated variable |
I.V |
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Dependant Variable |
Resulting outcome of manipulation |
D.V. |
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Control Group |
Not tested or changed group |
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Experimental Group |
Tested or altered group |
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Blind Study |
Participant doesn't know they were in experimental group |
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Double-blind study |
Both the participant and researcher does not know which group is being tested |
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Hindbrain |
Controls vital functions |
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Midbrain |
Controls vision, hearing, and sleep/alertness |
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Forebrain |
Complex functions |
Reasonibf and planning |
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Cerebral Cortex |
Part of forebrain in charge of thinking, perception, and complex motor functions |
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Corpus Callosum |
Between left and right hemispheres |
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Heredity |
Characteristics passed down to offspring |
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Nature vs Nurture |
Debate on how much of a person is based on nature or nurture |
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REM Sleep |
Rapid eyemovement and when we dream 4th stage |
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NREM 1 |
Brain waves and breathing changes |
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NREM 2 |
Sleep spindles occur |
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NREM 3 |
Deep sleep |
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Insomnia |
Inability to sleep or stay asleep |
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Narcolepsy |
People suddenly fall asleep |
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Sleep Apnea |
Breathing interuption during sleep |
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REM sleep disorder |
Movement in sleep |
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Fatal Familial Insomnia |
Hereditary sleep disorder that results in death |
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Conscious |
Being aware |
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Preconscious |
Stuff you aren't imediately aware of |
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Unconscious |
Information is unavailable to the aware mind |
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Nonconscious |
Basic biological functions |
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Construct |
Something you cannot see, touch, or measure directly |
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Parapsychology |
Field of study concerned with the supernatural or other phenomena that science cannot explain |
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Social-cognitive |
People can change their enviroments or create new ones |
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Visual learning |
Learns best with visual aids such as graphic organizers and pictures |
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Auditory learning |
Learns best from hearing the teacher talk or reading as a class |
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Kinesthetic learning |
Learns best with physical or hands on activities |
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Taste Aversion |
Not eating something because it made you sick |
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Generalization |
Avoid things as a whole |
Beef |
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Discrimination |
Avoid things that aren't similar |
All meat, fish, and poultry |
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Flooding |
Exposing to harmless stimuli |
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Desensitization |
Slowly expose them to fear |
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Counterconditioning |
Pleasant stimulus is paired with fearful one |
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Operant Conditioning |
Learning from consequences (volintary) |
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Classical conditioning |
Teaching a learned behavior by introducing a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to get that behavior |
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Reinforcement |
Done over and over to inforce learned behavior |
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Positive Reinforcer |
Something that makes behavior repeat when recieved |
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Negative Reinforcer |
Something that makes behavior happen when taken away |
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Punishment |
Action that should decrease or eliminate a behavior |
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Shaping |
Teaching a behavior by reinforcing small steps in the right direction |
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Intelligence |
Ability to learn from consequences, think rationally, and deal with everyday life |
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Two-factor Theory |
All intelligence has an underlying factor (G/S factors) |
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G Factor |
Ability to readon and solve problems |
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S Factor |
The "it" factor you have talent or are inclined in this way or that way |
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Primary Mental Abilities |
Nine factors make up intelligence and all equal 1 |
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Triarchic Theory |
All intelligences work together posibly at the same time |
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Analytical Intelligence |
Problem Solving |
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Creative Intelligence |
Ability to deal with new situations |
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Practical Intelligence |
Ability to accomplish everyday tasks |
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Emotional Intelligence |
Has 5 factors |
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Self-awareness E.I. |
Understand yourself to cope with feelings |
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Mood Management E.I. |
Distract ourselves from bad feelings |
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Self-motivation E.I. |
Push ourselves to be better |
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Impulse Control E.I. |
Control yourself to stay focused |
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People Skills E.I. |
Understand others to maks life easier |
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Multiple Intelligence |
Intelligencw has broader base (9=9) |
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Linguistic/Verbal M.I. |
Good with word use |
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Logical/Mathmatic M.I. |
Good with numbers and thinking |
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Musical M.I. |
Good with Patterns |
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Spatial/Visual M.I. |
Good with visualizing |
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Bodily/Kinesthetic M.I. |
Good with hand/eye coordination and body movement |
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Intrapersonal M.I. |
"ME" |
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Interpersonal M.I. |
Other people |
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Naturalist M.I. |
LOVES NATURE |
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Existential M.I. |
Ponder BIG questions |
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