Psychology 2

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Personality

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individual’s characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling

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Big 5 Dimensions of Personality are

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Openness, conciousness,extraversion,agreebleness, neuroticism

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What did we learn from phineas Gage

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Due to his injury involving a pole struck through his frontal cortex, his personality changed. But he lived. This lead us to believe that differenct parts of the brain serve specific functions

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Psychology is

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The study of the mind and behavior

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Human beings are made to be

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Social

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1.Aggression is 2. Agression is beneficial because

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1.behavior with the purpose of harming another. 2. It helps us get the resources we need.

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Behaviors are

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observable actions of humans and non-humans.

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Humans don’t cooperate with each other all the time because

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viewed as risky

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Sensation is defined as

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as simple stimulation of a sense organ.

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Hypothesis is defined as

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an educated guess

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Alcohol is what type of drug

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a depressant

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behavior is defined as

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quantifiable and observable

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Classical condition can

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teach someone to fear an object

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memory refers to

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the ability to store and retrieve information over time

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Emotional expression is

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an outward sign of your inward emotional state

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Insominia is

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a persistent problem in falling or staying asleep

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Cocktail party affect is

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is an example of selective attention and is an example of our ability to tune our attention to just one voice from a multitude.

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Observational learning is

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is learning without direct experience

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Positive prejudice is

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a benefit of belonging to a group. Positive prejudice occurs when a person is evaluated in a positive manner based on their group memebership

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Reappraisal is

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when you try to change your emotion by changing the meaning of the emotion eliciting stimulus

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REM Sleep is

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marked vivid dreams and being internally aroused

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semantic judgment involves

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thinking about the meaning of a word

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Complex reactions can be conditioned using

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pavolovian techniques

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Organizational encoding refers to

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to categorizing information according to the relationships among a series of items.

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Appraisal is

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is an evaluation of emotional relevant aspects of a stimulus that is performed by the amygdala

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We need sleep for

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recuperation, growth, remembering, and procreative functions.

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Opiates, Barbiurates, and Alcohol considered what. Compared to coffee?

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Depressants. Compared to coffee that is a stimulant

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Encode (encoding) is

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a key function of memory

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Rhyme Judgment is an example of

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elaborative learning

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Adaptiveness, biological preparedness, and survival are _______. Where as Generalizaiton is what?

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evolutionary elements in Classical Conditioning. And Generalization is a basic principal of classical conditioning

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Classical conditioning involves

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Unconditioned Stimulus, Conditioned Stimulus, Conditioned Response, and Unconditioned Response

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Observational learning involves

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Mirror neurons, Social learning, Viewing media, and Cultural norms

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Happiness, Sadness, Surprise, Anger, and Disgust are all

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all universal facial expressions

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James Lange theory states

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emotion is the consequence and not the cause:

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Cannon-Bard theory states

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stimuli simultaneously trigger activity in the nervous system and brain

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Two-Factor theory that states

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emotions are inferences about the cause of physiological arousal

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Facial Feedback Hypothesis states

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emotional expressions can cause the emotional experiences they signify.

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Name Three parts of the brain

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Hindbrain, Midbrain, Forebrain

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Describe the ID, EGO, SUPEREGO

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ID: present at birth (pleasure principle) EGO: acquired through contact with reality (reality principle) Superego: learned from caregivers (morality principle)

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Why didn't Frued's theories take traction

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they were largely based on sex

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A pharmacologist is testing whether a new anti-anxiety medication, Moodanol, will cause people to gain weight. To test this, she gives 100 people Moodanol for one month and 100 people a placebo drug. At the end of the month, she monitors any weight gain. what is the independent variable?

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Moodanol because i. Independent variables are selected by the experimenter because they believe it will cause changes to behavior or what is being seen

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A pharmacologist is testing whether a new anti-anxiety medication, Moodanol, will cause people to gain weight. To test this, she gives 100 people Moodanol for one month and 100 people a placebo drug. At the end of the month, she monitors any weight gain. What is the dependent variable?

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Weight Gain

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A pharmacologist is testing whether a new anti-anxiety medication, Moodanol, will cause people to gain weight. To test this, she gives 100 people Moodanol for one month and 100 people a placebo drug. At the end of the month, she monitors any weight gain. What is the expirimental group?

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100 people given moodanol

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A pharmacologist is testing whether a new anti-anxiety medication, Moodanol, will cause people to gain weight. To test this, she gives 100 people Moodanol for one month and 100 people a placebo drug. At the end of the month, she monitors any weight gain. What is the control group?

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Group left alone. No changes are made to this group