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Psychology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Empiriscm? | The premise that knowledge should be acquired through observation |
| 3goals of research | 1.Description 2.prediction 3.Explanation/Understanding |
| What are the four lobes of the cortrex? | 1.Frontal Lobe 2.Parietal Lobe 3.Temporal Lobe 4. Occipital Lobe |
| What is Brain plasticity? | Changing of neurons, organization of their networks, and their function via new experiences |
| What is the purpose of the Frontal Lobe? | Reasoning, motor skills, higher lvl cognition, and expressive language |
| What is the purpose of the Parietal Lobe? | Tactile sensory info such as pressure, touch and pain. |
| Why doesnt Correlation cause causation? | Just because it correlates doesnt mean it caused the stress |
| Subliminal perception is? | registration of sensory input w/o conscious awareness |
| Is perception subjective? Why? | Yes Because it's your point of view so only you alone have all the options of influencing and/or being influenced in a given situation |
| Why is perception selective? | because we only pay attention to what we care to hear or see |
| What is sleep deprivation? | the condition of not having enough sleep (can either be chronic or acute) |
| Complete- Sleep Deprivation? | w/p sleep for a period of days (can have negative effects on mood, performance on cognitive and perceptual-motor task) |
| Partial-Sleep Deprivation? | (a.k.a Sleep Restriction) When people make do with substantially less sleep than normal over a period of time {The effects from this depends on the amount of sleep lost and on the nature of the task at hand) |
| Selective Sleep Deprivation? | where you usually got a decent amount of sleep in NREM stages, but then you were selectively deprived of REM sleep |
| What is the 3 main theories on why we sleep? | Repair & Restoration Theory of Sleep, Evolutionary Theory of Sleep, and Information Consolidation Theory |
| What are narcotics? | Pain relievers (Morphine ,Heroin, Codeine): It causes euphoria, relation, anxiety reduction,and pain relief) |
| What are sedatives? | Sleeping pills (Barbiturates and Non-barbiturates):causes Euphoria, relaxation, anxiety reduction, reduced inhibitions |
| What are Stimulants? | Treatment of hyperactivity and narcolepsy, local anesthetic (Amphetamines, Cocaine): Elation, excitement, increased alertness, increased energy, reduced fatigue |
| What are Hallucinogens? | None(LSD, Mescaline, Psilocybin): Increasing sensory awareness euphoria, altered perceptions, hallucinations, insightful experiences) |
| What is Cannabis? | Treatment of glaucoma and chemotherapy- induced nausea and vomiting(Marijuana, Hashish,THC)Mild euphoria, relation, altered perceptions, enhanced awareness) |
| 3 main types of Treatment | Insight therapies, Behavioral Therapies, Biomedical Therapies |
| Freud's techniques for Insight Therapies | Free Association, Dream Analysis, Transference, Concept of Resistance |
| Continuous Reinforcement Schedule | Every response produces a reinforcer |
| Partial or Intermittent Schedules of Reinforcement | General class of schedules in which response are only occasionally reinforced. |
| Ratio Schedules | arrange a certain ratio of responses to reinforcement |
| Fixed Ratio | Every nth response produces a reinforcement |
| Variable Ratio | Like the fixed ratio schedule, except that the ratio requirement changes unsystematically following each reinforce delivery |
| Interval Schedule | Arrange an interval of time, beginning with each reinforce delivery, during which response will not produce another reinforcer |
| Fixed interval | the interval is the same after each reinforcement |
| Variable Interval | a new interval is selected (more or less at random) after each reinforcement |
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