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90 Cards in this Set
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Psychology
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Scientific study of behavior and mental process
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Theory
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a way to explain how separate facts fit together
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Applied Research
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intended to help those grieving the loss of a parent
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Basic Research
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intended to find where in the brain grieving is processed
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Afferent Neurons
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relay messages from the senses to the brain
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Efferent Neurons
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relay messages from the brain to the body
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Dendrites
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in the neuron, it receives the info
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Axons
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variously long connections among neurons
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Transduction
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information conversion process from senses to brain
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Right Brian
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controls the left side of the body
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Left Brain
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Controls the right side of the body
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Corpus collosum
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connection between the right and left brain
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Sensation
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information taken in through the senses
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perception
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the brain organizes and understands information
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Perceptual Processing
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prior knowledge, attention, cross-model perception
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Restorative Theory
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Theory of sleep to rest our minds and bodies
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Manifest Content
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What a dream is reported to be about
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Latent Content
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hidden meanings of dreams
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Activation Synthesis Hypothesis
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the brain during sleep and the random neural firings
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Sociocognitive Theory
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Thinking about or expecting to be hypnotized
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Reinforcement and Punishment
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Most important concepts of operant conditioning
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Positive Reinforcement
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a reward for doing well
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Behavior Modification
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using conditioning to change behavior
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Atkinson - Shiffrin Model
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components of memory; SM, WM/STM, and long term memory
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Language
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what psycholinguistics is all about
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Interpersonal Intelligence
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smarts about others; people people
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Crystallized Intelligence
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verbal ability and overall fund of knowledge
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Stress
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a psychological and physiological challenge
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Extrinsic Motivation
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desire because of reward or punishment
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Intrinsic Motivation
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Desire from within
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Sexual Response Cycle
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Masters and Johnsons
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Hierarchy of Needs
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Abraham Maslow
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Drive-Reduction Theory
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Clark Hull
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SRRS
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Homes and Rahe
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Reciprocal Determinism
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environmental, behaviors, and cognition all interplay
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Is it Abnormal?
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A danger to him/her se
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DSM-IV
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Standard reference to all disorders
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Psychotherapy
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Insight and Cognitive Therapies
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Psychoanalysis
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transference, resistance, and dream analysis
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Freud
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emphasis on the idea of unconscious, created psychoanalysis, and emphasizes sex as the main push of all behaviors
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Watson
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Founded Behaviorism
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Wundt
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"Father of Psychology"
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Maslow
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Theorist for humanism and needs hierarchy
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Pavlov
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Classical Conditioning/Stimulus-Response
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Thorndike
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Law of Eff
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Bandura
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Observational and Social-Cognitive learning
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Skinner
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Operant conditioning and consequences
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Charles Spearman
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g factor or s factor of intelligence
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Jean Piaget
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Stages of cognitive development
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Lev Vygotskey
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ZOPD: Zone of Proximal Development
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Lawrence Kohlberg
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Stages of moral development
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Robert Sternberg
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Triarchic theory of intelligence
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Erik Erikson
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Psychosocial stages of development
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Kubler-Ross
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DABDA: stages of dying and grieving
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Carl Jung
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Archetypes and collective unconscious nature
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Alfred Adler
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Individual Psychology
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Carl Roger
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Humanism and conditions of worth
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Sigmund Freud
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Psychosexual stages of development
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Albert Ellis
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RET: Rational-Emotional Therapy
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Raymond Cattell
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16 PF: 16 Personality Factors
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Fritz Perls
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Gestalt Psychotherapy
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Lazarus
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Stress from accumulated daily hassels
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Montra
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STFB: stimulus, thinking, feeling, behavior
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Neurons
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specialized cells that conduct impulses through the nervous system
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Circadian Rhythms
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with in each 24 hour period, the regular fluctuation from high to low points of certain bodily functions and behaviors
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Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SCN)
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Biological Clock
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Stimulants
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speed up activity in central nervous system, suppress appetite, and make person more awake, alert, energetic
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Depressants
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decrease activity, slow down bodily functions, and reduce sensitivity to outside stimulus
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hallucinogens
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alter/distort perception of time and space, alter mood, produce feelings of unreality, and cause hallucinations.
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Classical Conditioning
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organism learns to associate one stimulus with another
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Operant Conditioning
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behavior changes based on the result of a consequence they produce
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Gardeners Theory of Multiple Intelligences
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People have different minds with different strengths and weaknesses
linguistic musical logical-mathematical spatial bodily-kinesthetic interpersonal intrapersonal naturalistic |
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Parenting Styles
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Authoritarian
Authoritative - works best Permissive |
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James-Lange Theory of Emotion
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emotional response to an emotional response
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Cannon-Brady Theory
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emotional and stimulus happen simultaneously
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Schachter-Singer Theory
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Physiological arousal -> cognitive interpretation -> emotion
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Lazarus Theory
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stimulus -> cognitive appraisal -> emotion based on the cognitive appraisal
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General Adaption Syndrome (GAS)
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proposed by Selye
Predictable sequence of reaction alarm -> resistance -> exhaustion |
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Walter Mischel
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initiated the situation-trait debate
relative importance of factors within the situation and factors with in the person in accounting for behavior ** no traits of personality are locked in; they can be changed |
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Julian Rotter
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Locus of Control
Internal or external |
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Rorschach Inkblot Method
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10 inkblots test
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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
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human situations test
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MMPI-2 Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
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Paper and pencil test with questions about a persons thoughts, feeling, and behaviors
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Agoraphobia
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fear of being somewhere where escape is difficult
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Disorganized Schizophrenia
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extreme social withdrawal, hallucinations, delusions, sadness, inappropriate laughter, grotesque mannerisms
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Catatonic Schizophrenia
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complete stillness for an amount of time
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Paranoid Schizophrenia
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delusions of grandeur and/or persecution
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Undifferentiated Schizophrenia
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multiple symptoms but doesn't fit in the other three categories
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Somatoform Disorders
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physical symptoms that can't be identified as any medical condition
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Conversion Disorder
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involves loss of motor or sensory functions in some body part for no reason
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