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| show | Neural structures involved in the initiation of motor movement & emotion, which includes the caudate nucleus, putamen and substantia nigra
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| show | Insulating cover around some axons that increases a neurons ability to transmit impulses quickly (mylin sheath are made of specialized cells glial cells. If damaged causes MS
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| show | Chemical substance produced & secreted by neurons that causes a change in the receiving neurons resting potential
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| Dopamine | show 🗑
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| show | Lowest part of the brain just above the spinal cord. Controls vital life support functions: breathing, heart beat, blood pressure, sneezing and coughing
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| show | A small limbic system structure located next to the hippocampus in the brain that plays an important role in the expression of anger, rage, fear & aggressive behavior
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| show | Referred as brains relay station because of the role it plays in routing incoming sensory information to appropriate areas within cerebral cortex. (Plays a role in regulating sleep cycle)
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| show | A generalized feeling of dread or apprehension typically accompanied by a variety of physiological reactions including increased heart beat, rapid shallow breathing, sweating, muscle tension, drying of the mouth
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| show | Anxiety disorder in which a person experiences numerous panic attacks. (4 or more in a 4 week period)Feeling of unreality or depersonalization. Sometimes occurs during sleep
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| Social Learning Theory | show 🗑
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| show | In Pavlovian conditioning, the process by which a conditioned response is eliminated through repeated presentation of the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus. In operant conditioning, the process of eliminating a response by discontinu
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| Law of effect | show 🗑
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| show | Anxiety disorder characterized by persistent, unwanted & unshakeable thoughts or irresistible habitual repeated actions.(washing hands 5 times in a row)
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| show | Operant conditioning a technique in which responses that are increasingly similar to the desired behavior are reinforced, step by step, until desired behavior occurs
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| Learned Helplessness | show 🗑
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| show | Includes psychogenic amnesia, depersonalization-derealization disorder, dissociative identity disorder, in which the thoughts & feelings that generate anxiety are separated or dissociated from conscious awareness
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| show | An exaggerated & rigidly held belief that has little or no basis in fact
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| Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) | show 🗑
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| show | Subtype of schizophrenia by extreme psychomotor disturbances, which may range from stuporous immobility to wild excitement & agitation
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| Types of Medication for Bipolar | show 🗑
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| Systematic Desensitization | show 🗑
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| Transference | show 🗑
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| Rational-emotive Therapy | show 🗑
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| Behavior Therapy | show 🗑
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| show | Are primarily descriptive theories in that they attempt to identify specific dimensions or characteristics that are associated with different personalities( Idiographic approach, Nomothetic approach)
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| Free Association | show 🗑
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| show | Bandura the principle that individuals behaviors & thus personalities are shaped by the interaction between cognitive factors & environmental factors.
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| Reality Principle | show 🗑
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| show | According to Freud's theory, the vast reservoir of the mind that holds countless memories & feelings that are repressed or submerged because they are anxiety producing (the mind as an iceberg with most hidden beneath the surface of the unconscious)
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| show | Purposed by Norman. Useful in predicting behavior & assist with diagnosis of certain psychological disorders. O-openness to experience, C-conscientiousness, E-extraversion, A-agreeableness, N-neuroticism
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| show | Defense mechanism in which a person diverts his/her impulse driven behavior from a primary target to secondary targets that will arouse less anxiety. (bad day at the office, comes home and kicks the dog)
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| Thematic Apperception Test(TAT) | show 🗑
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| Illusion of Control | show 🗑
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| show | Used to describe the phenomenon that the first info we received about a person often has the greatest influence on our perception of that person
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| show | Tendency to infer other positive or negative traits from our perception of one trait in another person (thinner men are rated as more attractive & successful than heavier men)
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| show | Attribution bias caused by the assumption that most people share our own attitudes & behaviors
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| show | Sentences whose first letters serves as cues for recalling specific info- a mnemonic device
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| Mere Exposure Effect | show 🗑
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| Foot-in-the-door technique | show 🗑
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| Eidetic Imagery(photographic memory) | show 🗑
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| Schemas | show 🗑
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| show | Organic- memory deficits caused by altered physiology of the brain(accident/illness)
Anterograde-memory loss for info process after an individual experience brain trauma caused by injury or chronic alcoholism
Retrograde-Memory loss for certain details/e
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| Psychophysics | show 🗑
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| show | Vivid recall for earlier events associated with extreme emotion, surprise or uniqueness (Bombing of Murrah, 9-11)
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| Somatic Marker | show 🗑
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| show | Principle that the optimum level of arousal for peak performance will vary somewhat depending on the nature of the task
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| show | A hormone that is produced by fat cells & appears to signal satiety to neurons in the hypothalamus (inhibits eating & increases metabolic rate)
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| Psychoneuro-immunology | show 🗑
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| James Lang Theory | show 🗑
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| show | Theory that people experience psychological discomfort or dissonance whenever cognitions or behaviors are in conflict (supporter of abortion but then protests when a close friend is considering it)
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