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22 Cards in this Set
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Popular psychology
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network of everyday sources of information about human behavior.
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Accurate & inaccurate
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1. extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
2.Falsifiability 3. Occam's Razor 4. Replicability 5. Ruling out rival hypotheses |
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Heuristics
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help us to strealine our thinking and make sense of our world and it works well most of the time
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Cognitive biases
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hindsight bias- tendency to overestimate.
overconfidence- overestimate predictions. |
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scientific skepticism
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evaluates all claims with an open mind, require evidence to accept
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six flags of critical thinking
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1. extraordinary claims
2. Falsifiability 3. occam's razor 4. replicability 5.ruling out hypotheses 6. correlation isn't causation |
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anecdotal evidence
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story personal account, not used for scientific story no proof, often represent exception. dont tell anything about cause and effect
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4 research design
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1. naturalistic observations
2. case studies 3. correlation design 4. experimental design |
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directions of correlations
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postive 1 variable increase other increases, negative 1 variable increases other changes in other direction, zero not related at all
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validity
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does the measure asses what it suppose to measure
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reliability
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consistency in measurement
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statistical significane
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mathematical analogies
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practical significane
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real world
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what is a neuron major structures?
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motor neurons is what make muslce move and internerons send muslce between the two
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neurotransmitters
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chemical massager designed to communicate between methods of interaction
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the action potential properties
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all or none, regerative, no strength, threshold effect, and refractory period.
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hyperpolarization
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is when too much sodium is left
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heritability
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extent to which goes contribution individual treat differences always experienced as percentage.
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howand when does the brain change?
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plasicity during development, growth, learnind.
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split brain damage
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lateralization effect a person reading, writing, and language.
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spatial memory and where its located
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Midbrain
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four lobes of the cercbral cortex?
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tmeporal lobe, frontal lobe, parietal lobe, and occipital lobe
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