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What is Reliability?
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The tendency of a test to produce the same score again and again each time its given to the same people.
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What is Validity?
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The degree to which a test actually measures what it's suppost to measure.
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what is a branchlike structure that recieves messages from other neurons?
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dendrites
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what part of the nervous system includes the brain and the spinal cord
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the central nervous system.
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what is the peripheral-somatic nervous system?
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All nerves and neruons that are not contained in the brain and spinal cord but that run through the body itself.
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This is a divison of the peripheral-somatic nervous system?and controls all of the involuntary muscles,organs and glands?
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autonomic nervous system
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Parasympathetic division is?
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Part of the ANS that restores the body to normal functioning of the organs and glands.
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this part of the autonamic nervous system is responsible for reacting to stressful events and bodily arousals?
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Sympathetic division
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what is the process by which activities are started,directed, and continued. so that physical and psychological needs or wants are met.
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Motivation
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this is the tendency of the body to maintain a steady state
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Homeostasis
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what type of motivation in which a person performs an action because the act itself is rewarding or satisfying in some internal manner.
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intrinsic motivation
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This type of motivation in which a person performs an action because it leads to an outcome that is seprate from or external to the person.
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Extrinsic motives
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what is the name for the physiological reaction and the emotion are assumed to occur at the same time?
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Cannon-Bard theory of emotions
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what is the theroy that leads to the labeling of an emotion?
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James-lange theory of emotion.
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what is a sample?
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group of subjects selected from a larger population of subjects randomly
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what are the descriptive methods?
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predict,explain,control and describe
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this is to sensative to pressure or temputure?
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pain
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this is the minium change in stimulas detected half the time?
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difference threshold
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things like sex, food, shelter and water are what?
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primary motives
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these are novel stimuli, arousel are called what?
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secondary motives or psychogocail motives
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Maslow said these are our heiarchy of needs?
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1.biological needs
2.safety 3.belonging 4.self-esteem 5.self-actualization |
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a thought interpretation is a what?
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cognitive
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a postive or negative feeling resulting from perception is caleed what?
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emotion
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This system consists of the brain and the spinalcord?
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Central Nervous System
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This system follows orders from the central nervous system?
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peripheral nervous system
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This system controls movements?
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Somatic Nervous System
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This regulates viscearl organs?
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Autonamic Nervous System
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This keeps the body relaxed and relaxes body after stress?
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Parasympathetic Nervous System
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This Activates the body to fight or flight?
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Sympathetic nervous system
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What part of the body doesn't feel pain?
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The Brain
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What part of the brain regulates breathing and the heart?
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HinderBrain
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this part of the brain regulates emotion and memory?
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Hippocampus
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This part of the brain regulates relay sensory information?
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Thalamis
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what lobe deals with vision?
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occipatal lobe
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what lobe proceses balance?
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Temporal lobe
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this lobe is where the thought process is interpatation?
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frontal lobe
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this lobe is where movement and touch is processed?
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pariatle lobe
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this part of brain is incharge of involuntary movement?
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cerebellum
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this is released when under huge amounts of stress?
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Endorphins
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this has a extra threshold to pain?
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oxytocin
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this is released when under huge amounts of stress?
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Endorphins
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this has a extra threshold to pain?
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oxytocin
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this is released when under huge amounts of stress?
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Endorphins
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this has a extra threshold to pain?
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oxytocin
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