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35 Cards in this Set
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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
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