Psy 100 Exam 1

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Rene Descartes 3 beliefs

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Dualism, innate ideas, rationalism

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Define Rationalism

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all knowledge comes through logical reasoning

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Johhn Locke 2 beliefs

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People are born clean slates, epiricism

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Define Empiricism

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everything is learned though experience

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Father of psychology

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Where was Wundt's first psy laboratory

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leipzig, Germany

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Edward Titchener's school of psy

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Structuralism

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William James' school of psy

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functionalism

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psychology in the 1920's

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science of mental life

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psy in the 1920-1960's

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observing behaviors

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modern psy

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studying behavior and mental processes

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Board over psychology research ethics

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Institutional Review Board

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4 main ethics points

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Informed consent, confidential, debriefing, deception

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How much of all research is done with animals?

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5%

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How are empirical questions answered?

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through observations

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What is skepticism

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everything has 2 or more explanations, the most common is often the case

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What is a case study?

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a single person (case) studied at length

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4 Lobes of the brain

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frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital

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Job of the frontal

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Higher-order thinking, Motor function, broca's aphasia which affects ability to select words

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Job of the parietal

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Spatial processes and sensory/sensation, wernicke's aphasia which affects ability to understand language

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Which hemisphere controls language

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left hemisphere

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Job of temporal

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Auditory

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What is psychophysics

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relation between stimuli and our perception

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What is absolute threshold

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minimum stimulation needed to be noticed 50% of the time

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Difference Threshold

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how different 2 stimuli must be in order for a difference to be noticed

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What does Weber's law state?

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difference thresholds are based on percentage difference, not amount difference

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What is sensory adaptation?

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diminishing sensitivity to constant stimulus

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What is the job of rods?

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to see shapes, black and white

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what is the job of cones?

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to see color

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What is the path of light rays through the eye?

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Cornea, pupil, lens, retina

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what is young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory?

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cones correspond to three wavelengths, red, green, blue

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What is hering's opponent process theory

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Each of the three types of cones from YH theory respond to 2 different wavelengths

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Dual Process Theory

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Both theories combined

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What quality of sound does amplitude determine?

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loudness

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What quality of sound does wavelength determine

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pitch

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What quality of color does amplitude determine

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brightness

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what quality of color does wavelength determine?

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blue/red

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What is the range for human hearing?

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20-20,000 Hz

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What causes us to be able to hear?

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Stimulation of fluctuating hair cells on the Cochlear Basilar membrane

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4 types of touch

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pressure, warmth, cold, pain

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What is the one sense that does not pass through the Thalamus first?

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Smell

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what triggers and umami taste?

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glutamate

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What 2 receptors cause a burning sensation? How to we feel extreme temperatures

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stimulation of warm and pain receptors simultaneously