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GRE Psych

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Kurt Lewin   developed theory of association; grouping things together based on the fact tha they occur together in time and space. Pavlov proved it.  
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Higher-order conditioning   a previous CS becomes an UCS for another NS  
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Forward/Backward conditioning   Forward = CS is presented before the UCS; Backward = CS is presented after the UCS  
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primary drive   instinctual drives such as hunger or thirst  
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secondary drive   acquired drives, such as money or learned reinforcers  
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Fritz Heider   balance theory  
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Balance theory   developed by Fritz Heider, a theory of motivation where we need to obtain psychological balance  
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Charles Osgood and Perry Tannenbaum   Congruity theory, a theory of motivation similar to balance theory and revolves around maintaining homeostasis  
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Leon Festinger   cognitive dissonance theory  
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Clark Hull   proposed performance = drive X habit  
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Edward Tolman   proposed performace = expectation X value, also known as expectancy-value theory  
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expectancy-value theory   performance = expectaition X value, people are motivated by goals that they think they will meet combined with the value of the event  
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Victor Vroom   applied expectancy-value theory to organization psych - the lower you are in the totem pole, the less likely you are to perceive value  
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Henry Murray and David McClelland   need for achievement (nAch)  
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Need for achievement (nAch)   the idea that we are motivated to be most successful, either through gaining success or avoiding failure  
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John Atkinson   furthered nAch by saying that those that feel pride in work use small goals with intermediate risks. They feel accomplished and seek success more than fear failure.  
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Neil Miller   approach and avoidance conflict  
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Premack Principle   the idea of rewarding an undesired event with a desired event (i.e. dessert after eating spinach)  
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Donald Hebb   Intermediate levels of arousal are optimal for motivation, too much or too little hamper results  
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Yerkes-Dodson effect   optimal arousal is an upside-down U (extremes don't help)  
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response learning   linking a series of stimuli and responses  
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chaining   linking together a series of stimili and behaviors to approximatethe desired behavior  
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autoshaping   when an apparatus allows a subject to reinforc their own behaviors, such as bar pressing  
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John Garcia   genetic preparedness for learning, esp. nausea  
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Garcia effect   the quick asociation between nausea and food  
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M. E. Olds   used direcct stimulation to reward centers in brain for animals to self-stimulate; evidence against drive-reduction theory  
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Continuous v. Discrete learning   motor tasks are better if one task leads directly to another (like riding a bike) than if discrete  
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Positive transfer   when old learning makes it easier to perform new learning  
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Negative transfer   when old learning makes it harder to perform new learning  
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Hermann Ebbinghaus   Forgetting and learning curve (learning changes acceleration over time, slow, quick slow)  
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Phoneme   discrete sounds in language that carry no meaning  
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Morpheme   the smallest possible group of phonemes that form meaning (boy, ing)  
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Morphology (morphological rules)   grammar  
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Prosody   aspects of pronunciation that carry meaning (tone, inflection, accents, etc.)  
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Noam Chomsky   transformational grammar, surface structure, language acquisition device (LAD)  
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transformational grammar   theory of Noam Chomsky, differentiates between surface structure and deep structure in language  
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surface structure   how words are organized on the surface in an expression  
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deep structure   the true meaning of an expression  
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overregulation   linguistic error made by learners of a new language when they overapply a rule (sheeps)  
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overextension   generalizing the name for things  
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telegraphic speech   speech without articles or extras, such as "me go"  
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who learns language faster? girls/boys   girls  
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acquisition milestones   1 year - 1st words; 2 year - < 50 words in 2-3 word sentences; 3 yrs - 1000 word vocab w/ many errors; 4 yrs - grammar are rare excpetions  
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Robert Brown   theory of children's linguistic acquisition = children make hypotheses about syntax and self-correct with experience  
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Katherine Nelson   language really acquires with active speech, and not just with passive listening  
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William Labov   ebonics  
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Lev Vygotsky   word meanings are complex and altered by life experiences, worked with Alexander Luria  
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Alexander Luria   word meanings are complex and altered by life experiences, worked with Lev Vygotsky  
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Charles Osgood   used plots and graphs (semantic differential charts) which allowed subjects to plot word meanings - ppl w/similar backgrounds and itnerests have similar plots (connotation)  
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iconic memory   sensory memory for vision  
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George Sperling   studied iconic memory; partial reports of a line of flashed texts show that we see mroe than we remember  
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Ulric Neisser   coined the term icon for a single brief visual memory; worked with backward masking  
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backward masking   when an image or sound is presented before the previous one exits the sensory memory; this is more effective if it is similar to the original image/sound  
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echoic memory   the sensory memory of the auditory system  
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Short term memory   is mostly auditory and phonological  
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proactive interference   disrupting stimli that occur before the new item is presented  
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proactive inhibition   the difficulty in remembering a new item due to proactive interference  
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retroactive interference   disrupting stimuli that occur after the new item is presented  
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retroactive inhibition   the difficulty in remembering a new item due to retroactive interference  
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Savings   measure of LTM with a comparison of the time it takes to learn information the second time  
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encoding specificity principle   a subject is more likley to recall information in the same context in which it was learned  
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semantic memory   general knowledge of the world; impersonal facts  
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declarative memory   factual knowledge with two types: semantic and episodic  
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Frederick Bartlett   reconstructive memory  
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Reconstructive memory   studied by Frederick Bartlett, ideas and semandics of the story are better recalled than details or grammar of story  
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Allan paivio   dual-code hypothesis of memory  
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Dual-code hypothesis of memory   ideas are better recalled if icons/images are combined with semantic memory  
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Fergus Craik and Robert Lockhart   depth of processing for memory  
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Karl Lashley   memories are stored diffusely in the brain  
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Donald Hebb   memory involves changes at the synapes "memory tree"  
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E. R. Kandel   studied the Aplysia sea slug and young chicks to show physical changes in the neurons with memory  
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Brenda Milner   patient "HM" with lesion to the hippocampus and could not create new long-term memories  
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Serial learning   memorizing lists of info, subject to the primacy and the recency effect  
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serial-anticipation learning   memorized list of info where the subject needs to only recall the next set of info  
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paired-association learning   learning one thing in association with another, such as foreign language vocabulary  
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free recall learning   remembering lists of information in any order  
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factors of improving memory   acoustic dissimilarity, semantic dissimilarity, brevity, familiarity, concreteness, meaning, importance to the subject  
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decay / trace theory   memories fade with time - too simplistic  
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interference theory   competing information blocks retrieval  
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generation-recognition   states that recognition will always be easier than recall  
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eidetic memory   photographic memory  
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tachtiscope   flashes images for fractions of an inch  
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Zeigarnik effect   tendency to recall uncompleted tasks better than completed tasks  
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concept   the representation of the relationship between two things (i.e. concepts of bird - wings and flies)  
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mental set   preconceived notions of how to approach a problem  
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script   idea of how events typically unfold  
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prototypes   the representative or stereotypical example (scientists are good at math)  
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J. P. Guilford   defined convergent and divergent thinking  
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convergent thinking   taking many items to create a single solution  
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divergent thinking   taking one item and making multiple possible solutions  
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functional fixedness   closed mindedness about the use of an object  
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problem space   the sum total of all the possible moves that one could possibly take in order to solve a problem  
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mediation   the intervening mental steps between stimulus and response, reminding us how to respond or previous experience  
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Allen Newell and Herbert Simon   created artificial intelligence, called computer simulation models, to mirror human thinking and problem solving  
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logic theorist   first artificial computer simulation model by Allen Newel and Herbert Simon  
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general problem solver   updated artificial simulation model by Allen Newel and Herbert Simon  
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deductive reasoning   leads to a specific conclusion from the information given  
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inductive reasoning   leads to general rules inferred from specific details  
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atmosphere effect   when a conclusion is influenced by the way information is phrased  
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semantic effect   making conclusions based on what is thought to be correct instead of what logically follow from information given  
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Elizabeth Loftus, Allan Collins, Ross Quillan   discovere semantic heirarchy that proved that related words are processed faster (canary is a bird = true is faster than toaster is a bird = false  
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which processes memory faster, pictures or words?   words  
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bottom-up processing   taking pieces, esp data, to form an item or recognize a pattern  
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top-down processing   taking overall concepts and creating individual ideas  
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saccade an eye movement   from one fixed point to another, esp when reading or gazing  
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James-Lange theory of emotion   bodily reactions cause emotion  
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Cannon-bard theory of emotion   bodily sensations and emotional attributions happen simultaneously  
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Schacter-Singer Theory of Emotion   similar to James-Lange theory, where we feel bodily reactions, and then we must think about them and attribute before we know how we feel  
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receptive field   the part of the world that triggers a particular neuron  
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sensory transduction   the process in which physical sensation is changed into electrical messages  
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nativist theory   perception and cognition are laregely innate  
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structuralist theory   bottom-up processing, perception is the sum total of all sensory imput  
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James Gibson   perceptional development in the ability to make finer discriminations among stimuli  
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ciliary muscles   the muscles that allow the lens to focus on an image  
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Ewald Hering   opponent-process theory of vision/coloor perception  
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Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz   tri-color theory / component theory  
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lateral inhibition   allows for contrast, when a receptor cell is stimulated, the nearby cells are inhibited  
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David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel   discovered the specialization in the visual cortex (some respond to vertical lines, some horizontal lines, right angles, etc.  
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Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk   visual cliff  
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McCollough effect   aka after images, due to fatigued receptors that are overshadowed by opponent-processes  
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Pragnanz   Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful, symmetrical, and simple whenever possible (this is how Gestalt explains how we make order out of chaotic images  
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phi phenomenon   the tendency to perceive smooth motion where there is none (apparent motion - animation)  
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Muller-Lyer Illusion   equal lines with wings  
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Ponzo illusion   equal lines between converging lines  
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autokinetic effect   a single point of light in darkness appears to shake and move, due to the movement of our eyes w/o any reference points with which to adjust  
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Purkinje shift   the perception of color brightness changes with illumination. Red especially appears less bright in low illumination  
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Prosopagnosia   inability to recognize faces  
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Robert Fanz   studied infant pattern preferences (complex yet sensical)  
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E. H. Weber   coined the term "differential threshold" (just noticeable difference)  
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Weber's Law   a stimulus needs to be increased by a constant fraction of its original value in order for an organism to perceive a difference  
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Fechner's Law   a refinement of Weber's law - the just noticeable difference increases logrithmically  
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Signal Detection Theory   Developed by J. A. Swet, perception cannot be mathematically determined due to response bias (motivation). Response bias and signal strength determines perception  
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Amplitude   determines intensity/loudness  
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Frequency   pitch  
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Pinna   the fleshy part of the ear  
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Ossicles   three inner-ear bones: malleus, incus, stapes (hammer, anvil, stirrup)  
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basilar membrane   membrane of the ear that are stimulated by the flow of cochlear fluid to hear  
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Hermann von Hemholtz   discovered that different places of the cochlea are responsible for different tones  
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sound localization   high pitched sounds are located byintensity differences, low-pitched sounds are located by phase differences  
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dichotic presentation   experiments where different sounds are placed in each ear, used to studey auditory perception and selective attention  
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papillae   taste buds  
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free nerve endings   sense pain and temperature changes in skin  
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Meissner's corpuscles   skin sensors for touch or contact  
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Pacinian corpuscles   touch receptors for displacement of skin  
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physiological zero   the temperature that is neither cold nor hot  
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Robert Mezack and Patrick Wall   developed gate-control theory  
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Proprioception   the ability to tell the positioning of the body  
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Osmoreceptors   sense thirst  
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Myelencephalon   medulla; reflexes, sleep, attention, movement  
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metencephalon   the pons and cerebellum  
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medulla   reflexes, sleep, attention, movement  
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pons   connects the brain to the spinal cord  
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reticular formation   considered oldest part of the brain; responsible for a;ertness, thirst, sleep, involuntary muscles  
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mesencephalon   midbrain  
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tectum   controls vision and hearing, part of the midbrain/mesencephalon  
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tegmentum   the top of the reticular formation, part of the midbrain/mesencephalon, deals withsensorimotor system and is effected by opiates  
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diencephalon   part of forebrain, contains the thalamas and the hypothalamus  
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thalamus   channels sensory information  
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hypothalamus   ANS response; hunger and thirst; also houses the pituitary gland  
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telencephalon   everything in the forebrain except the cerebral cortex and the diencephalon; includes the limbic system, hippocampus. amygdala, cingulate gyrus  
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limbic system   group of structures for the four F's (fleeing, fighting, feeding)  
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cingulate gyrus   links areas in brain for emotion and decisions  
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gyrus   bump in the brain  
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sulcus   fissure in the brain  
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meninges   tough connective tissues that cover and protect the brain  
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superior colliculus   visual reflexes  
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inferior colliculus   auditory reflexes  
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basal ganglia   controls large, voluntary muscles, linked to Parkinson's and Huntington's  
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apraxia   can't organized particular movements  
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agnosia   difficulty processing particular sensory information  
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aphasia   language disorder, likely in Broca or Wernicke  
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alexia   inability to read  
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agraphia   inability to write  
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Broca's area   controls very fine motor movements, such as the lips and tongue to form words  
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Wernicke's area   controls the sensical choice of words  
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Hyperphagia   overeating without satiation  
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sham rage   easily provoked rage due to removal / lesion of the cerebral cortex; in animals it tends to be removal; in humans it can be hypothalamic lesion or discharge  
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ogliodendrocytes   provide / create myelin in the CNS  
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schwann cells   provide / create myelin in the PNS  
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monoamines   serotonin and dopamine  
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glutamate   most abundant excitatory transmiter  
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GABA   most abundant inhibitaory transmitter  
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Neuromodulators   neurotransmitters that cause long-term changes in the postsynaptic cell  
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H-Y antigen   turns a fetus into a male  
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hormones for menstration   estradiol, progesterone, luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH)  
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vasopressin   regulates water levels and therefore regulates blood pressure  
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adrenocorticotropic hormone   (ACTH) is a stress hormone that increases the production of androgens and cortisol  
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Stage 0 sleep   drowsy, neural synchrony  
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Stage 1 sleep   irregular alpha waves w/ myoclonic jerks and eye rolling  
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Stage 2 sleep   theta waves w/ sleep spindles, muscle tension, decrease in heart rate, respiration, and temperature  
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Stage 3 sleep   decrease of sleep spindles and replacement with delta waves up to 50% of the time  
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Stage 4 sleep   delata waves more than 50% of the time, growth hormones are secreted  
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beta waves   REM, neural desynchrony, paradoxical sleep  
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rebound effect   subjects dprived of REM sleep will spend more time in REM the next night  
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Konrad Lorenz   founder of ethology, studied imprinting, animal aggressoin (he thought it was instinctual and based on survival), releasing stimuli, and fixed action patterns  
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Ethology   study ofanimal behavior  
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releasing stimuli   aka releasers or sign stimuli, one individualof aspecies elicits an automatic, instinctual chain of behaviors from another individual in the same species  
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fixed action patterns   requirements: performed by most members of the species, uniform, complex, cannot be interrupted  
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Nikolaas Tinbergen   shared Nobel with Lorenz, did experiments with stickleback fish (red bellies in spring were a releasing stimuli for fighting) and herring gull chicks (red spot on bill are releasing stimuli for ecking in order to get regurgitated food)  
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supernormal sign stimulus   artificial stimuli that exaggerate the naturally occuring sign stimulus or receiver  
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Karl von Frisch   discovered the honeybee dance  
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Walter Cannon   coined "fight or flight", proposed homeostasis hypothesis  
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Haploid   a gamete that has half of the chromosomes of an organism  
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Diploid   cells that have pairs of chromosomes  
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displacement activities   aka irrelevant behaviors, behaviors that have no particular survival function  
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estrus   sexually receptive period in animals, "in heat"  
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instinctual drift   the replacement of trained or learned behaviors with instinctive/natural behaviors  
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four reproductive isolating mechanisms   1) behavioral isolation 2) goegraphic isolation 3) mechanical isolation 4) seasonal isolation  
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sexual dimorphism   structural differences between sexes  
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bee navigation   circle dance = food close, waggle = far, angle off vertical = angle from sun, landmarks, magnetic fields, sun and polarized light are navigational aides  
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bird navigation   atmospheric pressure, infrasound (low frequency), magnetic sense, sun compas, star compass, polarized light  
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Wolfgang Kohler   used chimpazees to study insight  
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R. C. Tyron   bred maze bright and maze dull rats  
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R, M Cooper and John Zubek   Challenged R. C. Tyron's experiment; maze bright rats only did better in normal conditions. In enriched environments, both did well. In poor environments, both did poorly  
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cross fostering experiments   seperating sibling animals at birth to determine heredity and  
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projection   accusing others of having your own negative feelings  
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sublimation   defense mechanism of channeling energy from unacceptable means to acceptable means  
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screen memory   memories that serve as representations of important childhood experiences  
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Individual theory   psychoanalytical theory developed from Alfred Adler, based on the postitive, creative, social, and whole. We work on social needs and on "becoming", we either feel inferiority due to the gap between the ideal and the real, or a quest for superiority  
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Adlerian personality models   choleric (ruling-dominant; activity high contribution low), phlegmatic (getting-leaning; low activity high in contribution), melancholic (avoiding; low in activity and contribution), and sanguine (socially useful; high in both activity and contribution)  
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analytical theory   Carl Jung, the main drive is toward life and awareness  
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persona   the outer mask and mediator with the outside world, analytical theory (Jubng)  
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shadow   a person's dark side, projected onto others and symbolized by devils, analytical theory (Jung)  
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anima   female elements that men possess, completmenting his own maleness, analytical theory (Jung)  
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animus   male elements that females possess, complementing her own femaleness, analytical theory (Jung)  
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self (analytical theory)   the full individual potential, symbolized by figures such as Jesus or Buddha, and by the mandala  
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cognitive therapy   Aaron Beck; conscious thought patterns are the main role and not unconcsious drives; interpretation of events is more important than actual events; therapy is directed, short term, and focuses on tangible evidence of client logic  
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maladaptive cognitions   arbitrary inference, overgeneralization , magnifying/minimizing, personalizing, dichotomous thinking  
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arbitrary inference   drawing a conclusion without solid evidence (cognitive therapy)  
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dichotomous thinking   black and white thinking in cognitive therapy  
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rational-emotive therapy   Albert Ellis; combination of cognitive, behavioral, and emotion theory; ABCDE (Activating event, irrational Belief, Consequence of emotional disruption, therapist Disputes belief, client gets Effective rational belief  
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gestalt theory   Fritz Perls, max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka; the goal is to detatch from past and fully experience and perceive the present; problems arise when we cannot perceive/fully experience the presetn and lack insight; thearpy is a dialog  
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existential theory   Victor Frankl and Rollo May; focuses on meaningfulness and meaninglessness; neuroticism stems from a lack of meaning  
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antipsychotics   block dopamine receptors and production; thorazine (chlorpromazine) and Haldol (haloperidol)  
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chlorpromazine   Thorazine generic, and antipsychotic  
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Thorazine   name brand for chlorpromazine, an antipsychotic  
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Haldol   name brand for haloperidol, an antipsychotic  
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Haloperidol   generic for Haldol, an antipsychotic  
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Lithium   an antimanic, used for treatment of manic-depression  
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Antimanics   inhibit monoaminessuch as norepinephrine and serotonin  
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Antidepressants   increase monoamine production; include tricyclic antidepressants (TCA), Monoamine Oxidase Inhibtors (MAOI), Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI), anxiolytics, and antabuse  
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tricyclic antidpressants (TCA)   amitriptyline (Elavil)  
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amitriptyline   generic for Elavil, an tricyclic antidepressant  
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MAOI   monoamine oxidase inhibitor, such as phenelzine (Nardil)  
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Elavil   brand name for amitriptyline, a tricyclic antidepressant  
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Phenelzine   generic for Nardil, an MAOI  
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Nardil   brand name for phenelzine, an MAOI  
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SSRI   Selective Serotonin reuptake inhibitor, such as Prozac, Paxil, and Zoloft  
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Prozac   name brand for fluoxetine, an SSRI  
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Fluoxetine   generic for Prozac, an SSRI  
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Paxil   name brand for paroxetine, an SSRI  
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Paroxetine   generic for Paxil, and SSRI  
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Zoloft   name brand for sertraline, an SSRI  
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Sertraline   generic for Zoloft, an SSRI  
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Anxiolytics   increase effectiveness of GABA to reduce anxiety or cause sleep; include barbituates and benzodiazepines  
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Diazepam   generic for Valium, an anxiolytic benzodiazepine  
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Valium   name brand for diazepam, an anxiolytic benzodiazepine  
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Antabuse   changes metabolism of alcohol to make one nauseous (i.e. fight alcoholism)  
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Hans Eysenck   critcized effectiveness of psychopharmacology as being no more succssful than no treatment at all  
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Melanie Klein   pioneered psychoanalysis in children; object-relations theory (adult relations are based on infant/child experiences)  
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Karen Horney   Neo-Freudian, stressed culture and society over instinct, neuroticism is a movement away from people  
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Harry Stack Sullivan   Neo-Freudian, empasized social and interpersonal relationships  
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The Three Forces of psychotherapy   Psychoanalysis, Behaviorism, Humanistic Psychology  
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Donald Meichenbaum   stress-inoculation therapy  
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Neil Miller   proved that abnormal behavior can be learned  
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Pick's disease   disease of the frontal and temporal lobes characterized by changes in personality  
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schizoaffective disorder s   chizophrenic symptoms with depression  
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schizotypal   elements of schizophrenia/distorted reality, with eccentricities  
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tardive dyskinesia   repetetive movements of tongue, jaw, or extremeties as a consequence of long-term neuroleptic or psychotropic drugs  
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cretinism   mental retardation caused by iodine deficiency  
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Korsakoff's syndrome   caused by heavy drinking, a vitamin B deficiency creates gaps in memory that are filled with made up events called confabulations  
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Wernicke's syndrome   caused by heavy drinking, a thiamine deficiency causes memory problems and eye dysfunctions  
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Phenylketonuria (PKU)   excessive amino acids in infants creates errors in metabolism  
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Tay-Sachs Disease   genetic deficiency that mimics symptoms of dementia and schizophrenia  
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Klinefelter's syndrome   a Y and two X chromosomes  
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Martin Seligman   discussed reactive depression and learned helplessness  
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Thomas Szasz   schizophrenia is artisitc, misunderstood, and should not be treated  
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Fromm and Reichman   schozophrenogenic mothers  
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David Rosenhan   studied pseudopatients that acted normal once they were admitted but whose behaviors were still being labeled as abnormal  
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Axis I   Clinical disorders  
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Axis II   Personality Disorders and Menta Retardation  
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Axis III   General Medical Conditions  
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Axis IV   Psychosocial and environmental conditions  
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Axis V   GAF Score  
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primary preventions   programs like DARE or Headstart that prevent mental health concerns in target populations  
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zygote   fertilized ovum  
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germinal stage   lasts 2 weeks, divides into 64 cells and implants into the uterus  
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embryonic stage   lasts until the end of the second month, main focus is organ formation  
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fetal stage   3 months until birth  
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Moro reflex   throwing arms and legs in response to loud noises  
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Babinski reflex   curling toes when bottom of foot is touched  
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Palmar reflex   grasping in hand  
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adaptation (Piagetian)   assimilation (fitting new info into existing ideas) or accomodation (modifying schemata to incorporate new information)  
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sensorimotor stage (Piagetian)   0-2 years, reflexes give way to circular reactions (repeated behavior to manipulate)' object permanence; representaiton (visualization and language)  
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preoperational stage (Piagetian)   2-7 years, egocentric understanding, rapidly acquiring words, inability to perform mental operations such as causality or true understanding of quantity  
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concrete operational (Piagetian)   7-12 years, understanding concrete relatiohships (simple math and quantity), conservation despite shape and volume changes  
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formal operational (Piagetian)   12+ years, abstract relationships, logic, ratios, and values  
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Rochel Gelman   showed that Piaget underestimated the cognitive ability of preschoolers and infants  
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Moral development (Piagetian)   4-7 (imitates rule following behavior), 7-11 understands and follow, 12+ applies abstract rules and can change rules if all parties agree  
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Lawrence Kohlberg   theories of stages of development: avoid punishment, seek rewards, seek praise, follow rules, attentive to rights, able to follow abstract concepts  
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Carol Gilligan   postied that Kohlberg's moral development was biased towards males as it is rule-based; women follow compassion more than rules  
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Erikson's stage birth-18 m   trust v mistrust  
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Erikson's stage 18m-3y   autonomy vs. shame and doubt  
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Erikson's stage 3y-6y   initiative v guilt  
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Erikson's stage 6y-puberty   industry v inferiority  
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Erikson's stage teen   identity v. role confusion  
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Erikson's stage y adult   intimacy v. isolation  
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Erikson's stage m adult   productivity v. stagnation  
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Erikson's stage o adult   integrity v. despair  
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John Bowlby   positive and negative forces help forge attachment of infant to mother; healthy attachments to mother during critical period lead to healthy attachments throughout life  
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Mary Ainsworth   used the stange situation to study attachment; discovered stranger anxiety, seperation anxiety, etc.  
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Diana Baumrind   studied parenting styles and coined terms authoitarian, permissive, and authoritative parents  
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Arnold Gessel   nature provides only the blueprint, nurture actually develops that blueprint  
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sex-typed behavior   weak in prepubescence, strong in adolescence, weaker again later in life  
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WIlliam Sheldon   used "somatotypes" to predict personality based on body shape (fat = social pleasure-seeker, skinny = introvert)  
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GOrdan Allport   created modern personality theory based on traits and states. We have cardinal traits that do not very by state, central traits, and secondary traits. Secondary traits very greatly by state  
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Raymond Cattell   reduced Allport's 5000 traits to 16 bipolar traits  
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Big Five   OCEAN - (Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism)  
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Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor   explored the consistency paradox - personality traits are not consistent fro situation to situation; cognitive processes interfere with out personality prototype  
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heritability of personality   40-50%  
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Kay Deaux   successes in typically male tasks are attributed to skill in males, luck in females. Women self-attribute this as well, leading to lower self-esteem  
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Sandra Bem   studied androgyny, found that self-esteem is highest with androgynous individuals, creted the Bem Sex Role Inventory  
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Martina Horner   found that women often shun male-dominated activities bcause they fear success  
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Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin   found that almost all sex-differences can be explained away through social learning except the disparity between women's verbal and men's spatial intelligence  
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Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman   described Type A personality  
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Grant Dahlstrom   discovered that Type A personality leads to heart disease  
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F-scale   stands for "fascism scale, measures authoritarianism and predicts stereotypical thinking  
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George Kelley   personal constructs (conscious thoughts) play more into personality than unconcsious  
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Jullian Rotter   locus of control  
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dispositional attribution   aka fundamental attribution error; we tend to think that another person's actions are based on personality and not situation, but reverse for ourselves  
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Barnum effect   we accept and agree with personality interpretations that are given  
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self-efficacy   the belief that one can accomplish a goal  
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Costa and McRae   discovered that personality doesn't change much after 30  
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Thematic Apperception Test   TAT, uses ambiguous story cards that patients fill in, hopefully to project their needs, desires onto the story  
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Norman Triplett   first social psychologist experiment; foud cyclists ride faster when riding with someone else  
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Kurt Lewin   founder of social psychology,came fromGestalt  
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Fritz Heider   social psychologist, founder of attribution theoryand balance theory (we act ot preserve homeostasis)  
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halo effect   the assumption that one good characteristic means that a person has other good characteristics  
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Lee Ross   studied subjects that were told a lie and later told that it wasn't true. If they had processed an explanation for it, they still maintained original false belief  
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base-rate fallacy   the fallacy that the familiar is thought to be much more common than it really is  
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M. J. Lerner   just world hypothesis  
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representative heuristic   a heuristic based on how much a person fits a prototype or stereotype  
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availability heuristic   heuristic that assumes that the most salient example is most common  
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Leon Festinger   cognitive dissonance  
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Daryl Bem   self-perception theory - we take cues from our behavior and environment (when we are paid, we don't enjoy it as much)  
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gain-loss theory   we like starting out negatively and improving better than having posive the whole time  
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Morton Deutsch   prisoner's dilemma and trucking company dilemma  
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Solomon Asch   the experiment with confederates who lied about which line is bigger to test conformity  
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Muzafer Sharif   Robber's Cave experiment, used game-style to look at conflict and prejudice, showed that equal power and cooperative problem-solving overcome prejudice  
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James Stoner   group polarization; the risky shift (groups are more likely to take risks than individuals), discussion serves to strengthen the alsready dominat POV  
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factors of groupthink   Irving Janis, unquestioned beliefs, pressure to conform, invulnerability, censors, cohesiveness within, isolation from without, and a strong leader  
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pluralistic ignorance   most disagree but believe that the others agree, so everyone goes along with the group even though they don't mostly agree  
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Kenneth and Mamie Clark   showed that black girls preferred white dolls  
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four factors of attraction   1) propinquity (nearness) 2) physically attractive 3)similar attitudes 4) reciprocity  
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Richard Lazarus   studied reactions to stress. we can either change the stressor (problem-focused) or our reaction (emotion-focused)  
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J. Rodin and E. Langer   showed that elderly that take care of aplant are healthier  
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bogus pipeline   lie told that a machine can tell if they are lying so that people give more correct responses  
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Leonard Berkowitz   studied link between frustration and aggression  
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M. Rokeach   showed that like-mindedness is more powerful than like-skinnedness  
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Hazel Markus   studied interaction of how communal/individualistic a culture is and personality  
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Elaine Hatfield   passionate and companionate love  
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Walter Dill Scott   first to apply psycho9logy to business, via advertising. he also started psych tests for military  
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Hawthorne effect   coined by Henry Landsberger, found that productivity increases when someone is being observed  
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Franz Joseph Gall   started prenology  
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Sir Francis Galton   first to apply stats to psych, also promoted eugenics  
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Gustav Fechner   first experimental psychologist first experiment that had mathematical results  
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Wilhelm Wundt   founder of psychology, started first psych lab  
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William James   first American psychologist, stream of consciousness and functionalism  
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Stanley Hall   recieved first psych PhD, started APA and first psych journal  
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John Dewey   reflex arc and functonalism  
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Edward Tichener   started structuralism  
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Dorothea Dix   applied psychology to improve treatment of mentally ill in hospitalization  
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Maz Wertheimer, Wolfgang Kohler, Kurt Koffka   started Gestalt  
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Victor Frankl   started existential psychology, started logotherapy which uses the search for meaning as a means of healing  
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Aaron Beck   pioneered cognitive techniques in therapy; maladaptive thoughts cause abnormalities  
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Alfred Binet   created the IQ test  
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Stanford-Binet Intelligence scale   modified from Binet's original to account for changes in intelligence over age, used mostly in children  
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Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale   self-explanitory, but is the one used for adults and has multiple subscores  
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factors that predict IQ in adoption studies   IQ reflects biological parents and SES of adopted parents  
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decline of memory due to age   fluid intelligence (ability to learn) decreases yet crystalized intelligence (knowing facts) does not  
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Robert Zajonc   studied birth order and intelligence; the oldest is highest, and each subsequent child is less; the bigger the gap between children, the more intelligent  
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Q-sort test   subject organizes adjectives on cards into how much they indicate the subject's personality  
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MMPI   Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory assesses personality using three validity scales (lying, carelessness, and faking), also can diagnose some abnormals  
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CPI   California Personality Inventory used for normal populations  
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Myer-Brigg Type Indicator   Personality inventory based on Jungian psycholgy to give the four letter code  
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Projective Testing   subject creates their own naswer that is interpreted  
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Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study   A series of pictures of frustrating situations where the subject needs to predict the response  
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Beck Depression Inventory   Does not diagnose, but it doues note severity of symptoms to track over time  
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empirical or criterion keying tests   responses show which subgroup a subject fits into (such as career tests)  
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Bayley Scale of Infant Development   tracks milestones of physical development but is a poor predictor of later intelligence  
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quasi-experiment   an experiment where random placement into groups is impossible or unethical (i.e. smoking for 20 years)  
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acquiensence   when a subject agrees to conflicting statements  
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demand characteristic   when a subject acts in a way that they think the experimenter wants them to act  
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Rosenthal effect   experimenter bias  
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Reactance   when a subject changes their attitude because of options being limited  
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selective attrition   when enough subjects drop out of a study and their group is no longer representative or random  
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meta-analysis   statistical analysis of multiple studies  
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nominal variables   a varaible that has a name or title attached to it, such as Republican/Democrat, male/female  
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ordinal variables   variables need to be arranged in order but there can be any gap in between, such as marathon running times  
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interval variables   variables with set distance in between, such as temperature, any zeros are arbitrary  
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ratio variables   a variable with a set order, set distance, and a real zero, such as age  
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measures of central tendency   mean, median, mode  
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calculating variance and standard deviation   variance; subtract each value from the mean, square the differences, add the squared differences, divide by the number of values, then take the square root  
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z-score   the number of deviations a datum is from the mean  
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t score   a transformation of the z score so that 50 is the mean and each increment of 10 is a snandard deviation  
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stnandard normal deviation ratios   34:14:02  
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Pearson r correlation coefficient   a range of -1 to +1 showing how muhc it correlates. 0 means there is no correlation, -1 is perfectly negative, etc.  
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Spearman r correlation coefficient   coefficient for the line that determines correlation when data is in ranks,  
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statistical regression   the procedure for determining relationship and predicting obe variable based on another  
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null hypothesis   no correlation between variables; the correlation is equal to or less than random chance  
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test of significance   a test to determine how much data rejects the null hypothesis  
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alpha level   the baseline criterion to test significance (less that 5% or 1% margin of error)  
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Type I error   incorrectly reject the null hypothesis  
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Type II error   incorrectly accept the null hypothesis  
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t-test   a test of significance that compares the means of two sets of data. If the difference between the means are considered significant. T tests can only be used on two data sets, and are best for continuous data (such as height or weight)  
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Chi-square test   a test of significance that looks at patterbs or distributions of a specific category (i.e. representativeness of race within a group)  
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discrete data   data that must be counted and therefore can never be negative  
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ANOVA, analysis of variance   like a t test but more flexible. it allows analysis of more than two sets of data of different sample sizes, one-way for one independent variable, two-way for two independnet variables  
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factorial analysis of variance   used for more that one independent variable and to show the effects of each independent variable  
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criterion-referenced test   measures mastery in a particular area or subject (i,e, a final exam)  
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domain-referenced test   measure less defined properties (i.e. intelligence)  
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split-half reliability   comparing two halves of a test to see reliable scores, such as evens v. odd  
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reliability   stability of test scores  
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validity   how well a test measures a construct  
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internal validity   how well the different test items test the same thing  
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external validity   how well a test measures what it says it will measure  
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concurrent validity   whether scores of a new meaure positively correlate with other measures known to measure the same construct  
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construct validity   whether it measures the construct  
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content validity   whether the content covers a good sample of the construct's aspects  
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