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43 Cards in this Set
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Wilheilm Wundt
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father of modern psychology
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Ivan Pavlov
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behavioralist who researched classical conditioning
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Plato
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allagroy of the cave; said that the soul has three parts, impulisive, emotional, intellectual
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Democritus
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dreams are made of tiny particals; "weak atoms"
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William Sheldon
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Somatypes determine personality; endco ecto mesomorph
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Phillippe Pinel
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reforms for the mentally ill
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Franz Joseph Gall
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phrenology and the study of criminals' skulls
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Phrenology
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the study of the shape and the size of the brain as an indication of mental abilities and character
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Sanguine
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extroverted, stable, procrastination, laid back, friendly leader
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Melencholic
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unstable, introverted, worried, stressed, moody, pessamistic
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phlegmatic
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relaxed, peaceful, passive; introverted and stable
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choleric
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unstable and extroverted; agressive, restless, changable
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thanatology
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the study of death and dying
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individualism
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supported by western cultures, it focues the attention on a single person's accomplishments
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collectivism
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eastern (asian) focus on the the group over the individual
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crystalized intellegence
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concreate information that is usually recallable in old age
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fluid intellegence
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general social rules that tend to fade out with aging
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synapse
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connection made in the brain created in youth by stimulation of senses
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axon
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firing base where neurons are emmitted and recieved throughout the brain
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dentrite
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space between neaurons where electrical impulses are sent
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circadian rhythm
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occurs once every 24 hours
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absolute threshold
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greatest amount of stimulus that can be tolerated
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difference threshold
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difference in sensory perception
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stimulus
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anything in the environment that one can respond to
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response
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any behavior or action that can be affected by a stimulus
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extinction
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operant conditionng the loss of a behavior when no consequence follows it
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sensitization
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stimulus gains more importance due to increase in sensation
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habituation
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decrease responce to repeated stiumulus because stimulus is no longer important to the subject
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Operant Conditioning
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a type of learning in which the frequency of a behavior depends on the consequences that follow
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classical conditioning
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a type of learning where the stimulus gains power to cause a responce that because it predicts another stimulus that already produces responce
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Albert Bandura
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observational learning, social cognitive perception on personality; one must consider the situation and the person's thoughts before during and after
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Wolfgang Kohler
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cognitive; logical, goal oriented problem solving
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Endward Throndike
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associtionist; undirected free flowing thoughts will help solve problems
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Misinforatiom
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incorporating misleading information into someone's recolection of an event
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False memory
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we think that we can remmeber something that never actually happened
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Storage
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rention on information
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encoding
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getting information into the memory
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cerebellum
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coordinate/ regulate volentary muscle movements
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brain stem
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automatic survival functions
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cerebral cortex
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fabric of the interconnected nerve cells that form the cerebral hemishpere; control/ info processing center.
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thalamus
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senses; directs messages to sensory recieving areas in the cortex
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amigdalla
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neural clusters that are linked to emotions; fear anger
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hyppothamus
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processing new memories for perminant storage
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