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The science of psychology, the biological perspective, and learning.

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Wilhelm Wundt   Founded psychology.  
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Abraham Maslow   Founder of humanism  
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Phineas Gage   Lived after getting a steel rod go through his head.  
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Carl Rogers   Founder of humanism  
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John Watson   Proposed behaviorism and demonstrated that phobias are learned.  
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Ivan Pavlov   Worked with dogs to prove involuntary reactions are normal.  
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B. F. Skinner   Introduced the concept of reinforcement to behaviorism.  
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Sigmund Freud   Childhood experiences are important and believed personality developed the first 6 years of life.  
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Behavioral Perspective   Focus on operant conditioning, punishment, and reinforcement  
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Humanistic Perspective   Free will. Self-acutalization  
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Cognitive Perspective   Memory, intelligence, perception, learning, etc  
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Psychodynamic Perspective   Modern psychoanalyis  
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Sociocultural Perspective   Relationship between social behavior and culture  
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Biopsychological Perspective   Behavior to biological events.  
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Evolutionary Perspective   Biological bases of mental character that all humans share. (Fight or flight)  
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Case Study   Tremendous amounts of detail given but cannot apply to others.  
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Surveys   data from large numbers of people. Have to ensure representative sample. Courtesy bias.  
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Naturalistic Observation   realistic but observer effect, observer bias, observations may not hold across settings.  
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Laboratory Observation   control over environment and allows use of specialized equipment. but may result in artificial behavior  
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Experiment   to determine cause-and-effect relationships  
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Four major goals of psychology   description, explanation, prediction, and control  
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Description   What is happening?  
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Explanation   Why is it happening? General explanation of a set of observations or facts  
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Prediction   Will it happen again?  
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Control   How can it be changed?  
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Psychology   Scientific study of behavior  
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Positive Correlation   Variables related in same direction  
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Negative Correlation   Variables related in opposite direction  
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Operational Definition   definition of a variable of interest that allows it to be directly measured  
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representative sample   randomly selected sample of subjects from a larger population of subjects  
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3 subfields of psychology   clinical, counseling, development  
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psychologist   PH.D., academic training  
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psychiatrist   M.D. or D.O., specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders.  
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psychoanalyst   Therapy based on Sigmund Freud  
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psychiatric social worker   Masters degree, trained in social work,focus in environmental conditions that impact a person.  
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Structuralism   The focus of study is the structure or basic elements of the mind.  
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Functionalism   The focus of study is how the mind allows people to adapt, live, work, and play.  
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Gestalt Psychology   Focusing on perception and sensation, particularly the perception of patterns and whole figures.  
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Psychoanalysis   The theory and therapy based on the work of Sigmund Freud  
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Axon   Tubelike structure that carries the neural message to other cells  
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Dendrites   branchlike structures that receive messages from other neurons  
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Soma   the cell body of the neuron responsible for maintaining the life of the cell  
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Receptor Sites   3D proteins on the surface of the dendrites or certain cells of the muscles and glands.  
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Myelin   Fatty substances produced by certain glial cells that coat the axons of neurons to insulate, protect, and speed up the neural impulse.  
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Neurotransmitters   chemical found in the synaptic vesicles that, when released, has an effect on the next cell  
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Synaptic Vesicles   saclike structures found inside the synaptic knob containing chemicals  
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GABA   Major inhibitory neurotransmitter, involved in sleep and inhibits movement  
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Dopamine   excitatory or inhibitory; involved in control of movement and sensations of pleasure  
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Serotonin   excitatory or inhibitory; involved in mood, sleep, and appetite  
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Reuptake   process by which neurotransmitters are taken back into the synaptic vesicles  
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Nerve   bundles of axons coated in myelin that travel together through the body  
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Glial Cells   cell that provide support for the neurons to grow on and around, deliver nutrients to neuron, produce myelin to coat axons, clean up waste products and dead neurons.  
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Basic types of neurons   afferent, efferent, interneurons  
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neuroplasticity   The ability within the brain to constantly change both the structure and function of many cells in response to experience or trauma.  
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Autonomic   division of the PNS consisting of nerves that control of the involuntary muscles, organs, and glands  
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Somatic   division of the PNS consisting of nerves that carry information from the senses to the CNS and from the CNS to the voluntary muscles of the body  
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Sympathetic   Responsible for fight or flight events  
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Parasympathetic   responsible for normal body functions  
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EEG   recording of electrical activity of cortical neurons just below skull  
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PET   brain-imaging method with radioactive sugar. color-coded images of brain  
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CT   using computer-controlled x-rays of the brain  
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MRI   using radio waves and magnetic fields of the body to produce detailed images  
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fMRI   mri-based. allows for functional examination of brain areas through change in brain oxygenation.  
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What brain structures make up the hindbrain?   medulla, pons, retucular formation, and cerebellum  
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Cerebellum   controls balance and maintains muscle coordination  
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Cerebral Cortex   control completes though processes  
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Hippocampus   plays a role in our learning, memory, and ability to compare sensory information to expections  
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Amygdala   fear responses and memory of fear  
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Corpus Callosum   connects the left and right hemispheres  
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Medulla   controls life-sustaining functions such as heartbeat, breathing, and swallowing  
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Hypothalmus   fear, thirst, sex drive, and aggression  
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What are the four lobes of the brain?   frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital  
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Broca's aphasia   unable to speak fluently and mispronounce words  
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Wernicke's aphasia   unable to understand or pronounce language  
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spatial negelect   damage to right hemisphere in parietal lobe. cannot recognize things on the left  
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Adrenal   on top of the kidneys, deal with stress, regulate salt intake, and secondary source of sex hormones  
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Thyroid   regulates metabolism  
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Pancreas   controls blood sugar levels  
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Gonads   sex glands  
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Pituitary   in brain. human growth hormone and other hormones.  
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Left hemisphere   controls right hand, written and verbal language, math, reading  
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Right Hemipshere   controls left hand, music and art, pattern and facial recognition, emotions  
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Classical Conditioning   learning to make an involuntary response to a stimulus  
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Stimulus generalization   tendency to respond to a stimulus that is only similar to the original conditioned stimulus with the conditioned response  
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Stimulus discrimination   tendency to stop making a generalized response to a stimulus that is similar to the original conditioned stimulus.  
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Extinction   the disappearance of a learned response  
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Spontaneous Recovery   the reappearance of a learned response after extinction  
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High-order conditioning   occurs when a strong conditioned stimulus is paired with a neutral stimulus  
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Conditioned emotional response   emotional response to a learned stimuli  
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Vicarious conditioning   classical conditioning of a reflex response or emotion by watching the reaction of another person.  
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conditioned taste aversion   development of nausea or aversive response to a particular taste.  
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biological preparedness   the tendency of animals to learn certain associations with certain foods  
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Stimulus substitution   classical conditioning occurred because the conditioned stimulus became a substitute for the unconditioned stimulus  
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cognitive perspective   classical conditioning is seen to occur because the conditioned stimulus provides info  
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Operant conditioning   the learning of voluntary behavior  
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Law of effect   law stating that if and action is followed by a pleasurable consequence, it will tend to be repeated  
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Operant   any behavior that is voluntary  
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Reinforcement   any stimulus that increases probability that the response will occur again  
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Reinforcers   event or object that increase the likelihood of that response occuring again  
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Primary reinforcer   any reinforcer that is naturally reinforcing by meeting basic biological needs.  
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Secondary reinforcer   after being paired with primary reinforcer becomes reinforcing  
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Partial reinforcement effect   the tendency for a response that is reinforced after some correct responses to be very resistant to extinction  
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Continuous reinforcement   the reinforcement of each and every correct response  
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discriminative stimulus   provides an organism with a cue for making a certain response in order to obtain reinforcement  
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successive approximations   small steps in behavior that lead to a particular goal behavior  
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instinctive drift   tendency for an animals behavior to revert to genetically controlled paters  
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behavior modification   the use of operant conditioning to bring about desired changes in behavior  
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token economy   rewarded with tokens  
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applied behavior analysis   uses a variety of behavioral techniques to mold a desired behavior or response  
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biofeedback   use of feedback about biological conditions to bring involuntary responses  
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neurofeedback   using brain-scanning to proved feedback in effort to modify behavior  
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latent learning   learning that remains hidden until application is useful  
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insight   aha moment  
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learned helplessness   depression learned  
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observational learning   learning new behavior by watching a model  
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learning/performance distinction   observing can take place without actual performance of the learned behavior  
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