Psychology Exam

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Psychology

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Science if behavior and thinking started in 1879

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Structuralism

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What is the mind made of

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Functionalism

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What's the minds function

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Behavioralism

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Study if things you can see or manipulate not the mind

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Basic research method

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Designed to answer a specific question

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Applied research method

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Designed to solve a problem

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Glia cell

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Glue that holds neurons together

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Dentrites

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Get information from other cells, receive it

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Soma

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Cell body, contains the nucleus

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Axon

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Sends signals to other cells

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Axon hillock

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Calculator. Of the cell

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Terminal buttons

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Found at the ends if each axon terminal

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Vesicles

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Bags that contain neurotransmitters

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Automatic nervous system

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Controls organs automatically

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Somatic nervous system

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Controls skeletal muscles

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Sympathetic nervous system

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Excites your automatic nervous system and get your body heart rate blood pressure going

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Parasympathetic nervous system

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Sloes down the body let's you relax

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Medulla

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Keeps heart beating and blood pressure

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Pons

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Regulated sleeping cycles

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Cerebellum

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Coordinates movement

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Thalamus

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Sensory relay system

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Hypothalamus

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Regulated temperature, appetite

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Hippocampus

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Memory, formation of new memories

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Frontal lobe

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Thought planning movement

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Parietal lobe

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Touch and spatial relation

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Temporal lobe

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Hearing and memory

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Sensation

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Activation of a sensory organ

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Perception

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Interpret a sensation

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Gestalt

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Tendency to group or organizeshapes colors

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Circadian

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Daily rythem of the body

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Sleep stage 1

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Lightest sleep easily awoken

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Stage 2 sleep

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Sleep spindle

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Stage 3 sleep

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Delta waves appear

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Rem sleep

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Rapid eye movement and dreams and paralysis

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Insomnia

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Cannot fall asleep or stay asleep

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Sleep apnea

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A person stops breathing during sleep

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Narcolepsy

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Person will fall into rem sleep with no warning

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Wishful fulfilment

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That your dreams mean something, have a point

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Latent content

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The hidden meaning behind your dreams

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Manifest content

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The dream image, what was the dream

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Dissociation theory

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When someone is hypnotised there conciseness changes