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Correlation
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helps us figure how closely two things vary together and how well one predicts each other.
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Double Blind Procedure
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neither the participants or the research assistants know which group is receiving which treatment.
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Synapse
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meeting point between neurons
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neurotransmitters
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Triggers the release of chemical messengers
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central nervous system
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the brain and spinal cord. it communicates with the body's sensory receptors, muscles, and glands via the peripheral NS
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Autonomatic NS
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controls our glands and the muscles of our internal organs influencing functions such as heartbeat, digestion system.
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Sympathetic NS
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arouses and expends energy
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Parasympathetic NS
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produces opposite effects . It conserves energy.
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Reflexes
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our automatic responses to stimuli.
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Brainstem
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Innermost region. It begins where the brain swells slightly after entering the skull.
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Medulla
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The slight swelling. Controls the heartbeat and breathing.
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Reticular Formation
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A finger shaped network of neurons hat extends from the spinal cord right up to the thalamus.
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Cerebellum
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Extending from the rear of the brainstem.
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Limbic System
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two halves of the brain
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Amygdala
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influence aggression and fear
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Hypothalamus
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Just below the thalamus. governing bodily maintenance.
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Frontal Lobe
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Behind your forehead. Involved in speaking and muscle movements and in making plans/judgments.
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Parietal Lobe
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Top of the head. Receives sensory input for touch and body position.
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Occipital Lobe
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Back of the head. Receive info from visuals.
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Temporal Lobe
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Above the ears. Include auditory areas.
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Psychoanalysis
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leading into someones unconscious.
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Unconscious
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thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories
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Id
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unconscious psychic energy to constantly strives to satisfy basic drives to survive, reproduce, and aggress.
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Ego
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young child responds to the real world.
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Superego
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the voice of our moral compass that forces the ego to consider not only the real but the IDEAL.
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Defense mechanisms
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tactics that reduce or redirect anxiety by distorting reality.
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Repression
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banishes anxiety-arousing wishes from consciousness.
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Regression
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allows us to retreat to an earlier, more infantile stage of development.
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Reaction Formation
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the ego unconsciously makes unacceptable impulses look like their opposites.
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Projection
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disguises threatening impulses by attributing them to others.
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Rationalization
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Occurs when we unconsciously generate self-justifying explanations to hide from ourselves the real reasons to our actions.
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Displacement
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diverts sexual or aggressive impulses toward an object or person that is psychologically more acceptable than the one that aroused the feelings.
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Denial
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protects the person from real events that are painful to accept, either by rejecting a fact or its seriousness.
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Collective Unconscious
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a common reservoir of images derived from our species' universal experiences.
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Self- Actualization
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The process of fulfilling our potential.
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Unconditional Positive Regards
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People nurture our growth by being accepting.
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Self-Concept
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all the thoughts and feelings we have in response to the question.
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Social Cognitive Perspective
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emphasizes the interaction of out traits with our situations.
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External Locus of Control
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the perception they chance or outside forces determine their fate.
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Internal Locus of Control
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believe they control their own destiny.
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Positive Psychology
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concerned with weakness and damage, and strength and virtue.
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Observant Learning
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by observing and imitating others.
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General Adaption Syndrome (GAS)
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that the body's adaptive response to stress was so general.
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Psychoneuroimmunology
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Studies how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes affect our immune system and how all these factors influence or health and wellness.
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