Psychology Midterm

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Creates First psychology Lab

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Ebbinghaus

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in Germany reports on first memory experiments

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Binet and Simon

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First intelligence test

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Thorndike

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In US conducts experiments on animal learning

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Margaret Washburn

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First woman recieve Ph.D in psychology

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Stanley Hall

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First lab psychologist and John Hopkins

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Freud

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Interpreted dreams

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William James

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Published Principle Of Psychology

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Mary Calkins

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Studys memory

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Pavlov

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Russia studied animals

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Watson

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Psychology as the science of behavior

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Psychology

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Science of behavior and mental processess

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Basic Research

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Pure science aims increase knowledge

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Applied Research

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Used solve problems

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Psychiatry

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Branch medicine dealing with psychology

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Critical Thinking

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Thinking not blindley accepting ideas

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Theory

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Explanation using principles and perdicts observation

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Hypothesis

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testable prediction

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Operational Definition

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statement of the procedures used to define variables

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SQ3R

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study incorporating Survery, Questioning, Read, Rehearse and Review

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Neuron

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Nerve cell, basic block of nervous system

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Dendrite

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Bushy Branching extensions of a neuron that recieves messages, and conducts impules toward the cell of the body

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Axon

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Extension of a neuron, messages sent to other neurons

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Myelin

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Layer fatty tissue protecting neurons

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Action Potential

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neural impulse

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Threshold

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Level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse

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Synapse

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Junction between axon tip and dendrite

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Neurotransmitters

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Chemical messangers influencing impulses

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Central Nervous system

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Brain and spinal cord

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Periphreal Nervous System

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sensory and motor neurons connect to the central nervous system to rest of body

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Nerves

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Neural cables containing axons

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Sensory neurons

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Neurons the carry incoming information from the sense receptors to the central nervous system

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Interneurons

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C.N.S. neurons internally communicate and interven btw sensory and motor inputs

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Motor Neurons

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Neurons that carry outgoing Information from CNS to muscles/ glands

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Somatic Nervous System

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Divison of perihpreal system controls skeletal muscels