PSYCH Chapter 1-3
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| show | The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
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| show | The idea that mind and body were separate entities that interact to produce sensations, emotions and other conscious experiences.
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| show | More than 2,000 years ago
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| Early Greek philosopher | show 🗑
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| The founder of Psychology: | show 🗑
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| show | Edward Titchener
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| Structuralism defined: | show 🗑
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| show | Anything that is perceptible to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)
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| He developed the functionalism idea: | show 🗑
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| show | School of psychology that emphasized studying the function of behavior and mental experiences.
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| Psychoanalysis defined: | show 🗑
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| show | School of psychology that emphasize the study of observable behaviors, especially as they pertain to the process of learning. (John Watson)
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| Humanism: | show 🗑
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| Theory defined: | show 🗑
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| Biological perspective: | show 🗑
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| show | emphasizes the importance of unconscious influences, early life experiences, and interpersonal relationships in explaining the underlying dynamics of behavior
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| Humanistic perspective: | show 🗑
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| Four basic goals of psychology: | show 🗑
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| show | Verifiable evidence that is based upon objective observation, measurement, and/or experimentation.
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| Hypothesis: | show 🗑
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| Variable: | show 🗑
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| Operational definition: | show 🗑
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| show | A mathematical indication that research results are not very likely to have occurred by chance.
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| show | Strategies for observing and describing behavior.
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| show | The systematic observation and recording of behaviors as they occur in their natural setting.
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| Case study: | show 🗑
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| Survey: | show 🗑
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| Correlation studies: | show 🗑
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| show | A method that is used to demonstrate a cause-and-effect relationship between two variables.
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| show | The purposely manipulated factor thought to produce change in an experiment
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| Dependent variable: | show 🗑
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| show | The group of participants who are exposed to all experimental conditions.
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| Control group: | show 🗑
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| show | A fake substance, treatment, or procedure that has no direct effect
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| Ethics in Psychological research developed by the APA: | show 🗑
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| Basic parts of the neuron: | show 🗑
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| show | Processes nutrients and provides energy for the neuron to function; contains the nucleus (soma).
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| Dendrites: | show 🗑
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| show | The long, fluid=filled tube that carries a neuron's messages to other body areas.
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| Myelin sheath: | show 🗑
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| show | The point of communication between two neurons
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| show | Chemical messengers manufactured by a neuron
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| show | Division of the nervous system that consists of the brain and spinal cord
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| Peripheral nervous system: | show 🗑
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| Somatic nervous system: | show 🗑
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| show | Subdivision of the peripheral nervous system that regulates involuntary functions
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| show | System of glands located throughout the body that secrete hormones into the bloodstream
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| show | A region a t the base of the brain that contains several structures that regulate basic life functions.
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| The hindbrain structures: | show 🗑
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| show | The middle and smallest brain region that is involved in processing auditory and visual sensory information (referred to as a relay station)
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| show | The largest and most complex brain region which contains centers for complex behaviors and mental processes; also called the cerebrum
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| show | auditory information
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| Parietal lobe deals with: | show 🗑
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| Occipital lobe deals with: | show 🗑
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| show | thinking and planning
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| show | A group of forebrain structures that form a border around the brainstem and are involved in emotion, motivation, learning an memory.
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| show | A cureved forebrain structure that is part of the limbic system and is involved in learning and forming new memories.
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| Thalamus: | show 🗑
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| Hypothalamus: | show 🗑
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| Amygdala: | show 🗑
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| show | The brain's ability to shift function from damaged to undamaged brain areas.
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| Structural plasticity: | show 🗑
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| The left hemisphere of the brain is associated with: | show 🗑
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| Sensation: | show 🗑
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| show | The process of integrating, organizing, and interpreting sensations.
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| show | The smallest amount of strength of a stimulus that can be detected half the time.
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| Difference threshold: | show 🗑
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| show | The decline in sensitivity to a constant stimulus.
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| show | A clear membrane covering the visible part of the eye that helps gather and direct incoming light.
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| show | The opening in the middle of the iris that changes size to let in different amounts of light.
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| show | The colored part of the eye, which is the muscle that controls the size of the pupil.
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| show | A thin, light-sensitive membrane located at the back of the eye that contains the sensory receptors for vision.
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| Blue refers to: | show 🗑
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| Green refers to: | show 🗑
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| Red refers to: | show 🗑
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| Outer ear: | show 🗑
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| show | The part of the ear that amplifies sound waves; consists of three small bones: the hammer, the anvil, and the stirrup.
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| show | The part of the ear where sound is transduced into neural impulses; consists of the cochlea and semicircular canals.
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| show | The coiled, fluid-filled inner-ear structure that contains the basilar membrane and hair cells
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| show | smell
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| Gustation refers to: | show 🗑
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| show | Technical name for the sense of balance, or equilibrium
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| show | Technical name for the sense of location and position of body parts in relation to one another.
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| show | A school of psychology founded in Germany that maintained that our sensations are actively processed according to consistent perceptual rules that result in meaningful whole perceptions.
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| Figure-ground relationship: | show 🗑
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| Relative size: | show 🗑
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| show | faraway objects often appear hazy or slightly blurred by the atmosphere.
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| show | Surface with crisp distant texture that becomes fuzzy and blended when farther away
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| show | parallel lines seem to meet in the distance
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| Motion parallax: | show 🗑
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| Perceptual constancy: | show 🗑
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| show | The misconception of the true characteristics of an object or an image
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| show | The tendency to perceive objects or situations from a particular frame of reference.
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