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Define Pyschology |
The science of behavior and mental processes |
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Define Conscienceness |
our awareness of ourselves and our environment |
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Define Belief |
A principle accepted as true or real without a proof |
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Define Sensation |
Bringing info from the outside world into our mind such as sight,taste,touch,smell,hear. |
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Define Perception |
recognizing meaningful objects and evens by organizing and interpreting sensory information |
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Define Emotion |
state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others. |
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Define Thought |
use one's mind actively to form connected ideas |
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Define Behavior |
the way in which an animal or person acts in response to a particular situation or stimulus |
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Define Placebo |
a harmless pill, medicine, or procedure prescribed more for the psychological benefit to the patient than for any physiological effec |
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Define Placebo Effect |
Experimental results caused by expectation alone |
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Define Altered state of conscienceness |
Deviating from waking conscieneness like from sleeping or drugs |
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List and give examples of the two behaviors associated with psychology |
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List two causes of insomnia |
stress, anxiety |
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Explain two separate reasons or theorys on why we need sleep |
To let our bodys repair themselves; To rest our body after a day of hyperactivity |
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name each stage of sleep and describe what happens in each stage |
Stage 1- "tansition stage" Go from not sleeping to sleeping Stage 2- "baseline sleep" Dream, body slows down, light sleep Stage 3 and 4- "deep sleep" confusion of mind. dream. Stage 5- deep sleep, muscle paralysis, high mind activity |
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Phrenology |
The scientific study of periodic biological phenomena in relation to climatic conditions. |
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introspection |
the examination or observation of one's own mental and emotional processes |
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nightmare vs night terror |
Nightmares are rememberable and night terrors are not able to be remembered |
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case study |
on person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles |
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survey |
finding out about a particular group by questioning a representative, random sample of the group |
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naturalistic observation |
Observing behaviors in there natural situations without interfering with them |
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dependent and independent variable |
Independent- the experimental factor that is manipulated Dependent- the outcome factor, the variable that may change in response to change in the independant variable |
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hindsight bias |
The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome that one would have foreseen it |
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which goals of psychology answers the why questions |
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difference between stimulant and depressent |
Simulants- excite the CNS Depresents- Slow the CNS |
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valitaty |
the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to |
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predictive valitity |
The success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict |
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circadian rythym |
The biological clock; regular body rhythms |
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suprakiesmatic nucleaus |
controls the circadian rhythm |
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addictive drugs vs psychoactive drugs |
psychoactive drug- a chemical substance that alters perceptions and moods |
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average time of one sleep cycle |
90 minutes |
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role that meletonin plays in sleep |
helps control sleep and wake cycles |
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frueds theorys on dreaming (manifest content, latient content) |
manifest content- the remembered story line of a dream Latent content- the underlying meaning of a dream |
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milgram experiment |
the Shock one |
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Stanford prison experiment |
the prison one |
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In 3-4 sentances explain the casue and effect relationship in pyschology |
Something causes another thing to happen |
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What is the first sleep cycle and were does the second cycle start |
1-2-3-4-4-3-2-REM 2nd starts at the 2. |
