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Psychology

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