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44 Cards in this Set
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Behaviorism |
The study of behaviour |
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Cognitive Psychology |
The study of mental processes |
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Consciousness |
Awareness of ourselves and our environments |
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Empiricism |
The belief that knowledge comes from experience |
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Eugenics |
The practice of selective breeding to promote desires traits |
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Flashbulb memory |
A highly detailed and vivid memory of an emotionally significant event |
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Functionalism |
A school of American psychology that focuses on the utility of consciousness. |
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Gestalt Psychology |
An attempt to study the unity of experience |
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Individual differences |
Ways in which people differ in terms of their behaviour, emotion, cognition and development |
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Introspection |
A method of focusing on internal processes |
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Neural impulses |
An electro-chemical signal that enables neurons to communicate |
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Practitioner/scholar models |
A model of training of professional psychologists that emphasizes clinical practice. |
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Psychophysics |
Study of relationship between physical stimuli and the perception of those stimuli. |
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Realism |
A point of view that emphasizes the importance of the senses in providing knowledge of the external world |
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Scientist-practitioner model |
A model of training of professional psychologists that emphasizes the development of both research and clinical skills |
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Structurism |
A school of American psychology that sought to describe the elements of conscious experience |
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Tip of the tongue phenomenon |
The inability to pull a word from memory even though there is the sensation that the word is available. |
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Confounds |
Factors that undermine the ability to draw casual inference from an experiment |
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Correlation |
Measures the associations between two variables or how they go together. |
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Dependent variable |
The variable the researcher measures but does NOT manipulate in an experiment |
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Experimenter Expectations |
When the experimenters expectation influence the outcome of a study. |
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Independent Variable |
The variable the researcher manipulated and controls in an experiment |
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Longitudinal study |
A study that follows the same group of individuals over time |
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Operational Definitions |
How researchers specifically measure a concept |
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Participant Demand |
When participants behave in a way that they think the researcher wants then to behave |
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Placebo effect |
When receiving special treatment or something new affects human behaviour |
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Quasi Experimental Design |
An experiment that does not require random assignment to conditions |
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Random assignment |
Assigning participants to receive different conditions of an experiment by chance |
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Ablation |
Surgical removal of brain tissue |
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Basal Ganglia |
Subcortical structures of the cerebral hemispheres involved in voluntary movement |
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Brain stem |
The trunk of the brain comprised of the medulla, pons, midbrain and diencephalon |
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Callostomy |
Severing the corpus callosum by surgical procedure (used to control epilepsy) |
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Case study |
A thorough study of a patient with naturally occurring legions |
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Cerebellum |
The distinctive structure at the back of the brain. Latin for little brain |
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Cerebral cortex |
The outermost grey matter of the cerebrum |
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Cerebral hemispheres |
The cerebral cortex, underlying white matter and subcortical structures |
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Cerebrum |
Usually refers to the cerebral cortex and associated white mattet |
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Contralateral |
Literally means "opposite side" used to refer to the way the two hemispheres processes and commands motor for the opposite of the body |
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Converging evidence |
Similar findings reported from multiple studies using different methods |
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Coronal plane |
A slice that runs from head to foot |
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DOI Diffuse Optical Imaging |
A neuroimagining technique that infers brain activity by measuring changes in light that passed through the skull and surface of the brain |
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EEG |
Electro Encephalography a neuro imaging technique that measures electrical activity in the brain by multiple electrodes on the scalp |
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Front Lobe |
The front most (anterior) part of the cerebrum anterior to the central nucleus and responsible for motor, planning, language, judgement and decision making. |
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FMRI |
Functional magnetic resonance imaging- a neuroimaging technique that infers brain activity by measuring changes in blood oxygen levels. |
