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Chapter 1, 2, 3, 5

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show thoughts & feelings  
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brain   show
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show actions  
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show people change, are different, & experience things differently (variability) mind prone to error & illusion  
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show mind & brain are tuned to the world modest degree of prediction (causal events)  
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psychology is a product of __________ & __________   show
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show it measures & predicts thoughts, behaviors, & brain processes  
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animism   show
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dualism   show
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psychology   show
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modified dualism (Descartes)   show
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What part of the brain did Descartes believe allow the mind to interact with the body?   show
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show mind product of the brain (no soul)  
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empiricism (Locke)   show
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show behavior influences how characteristics evolve  
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different scientists who tried to understand brain & nervous system (7)   show
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Who founded psychology? When? Where?   show
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show components of thought (parts make whole) & introspection (looking at oneself) - not replicable/consistent  
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functionalism (James @ Harvard)   show
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show a lot happened in the unconscious  
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Gestalt psychology (Wertheimer, Kohler, Lewin)   show
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show focused on observables & not mind fails to take mental processes & evolutionary history into account  
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What are the 2 categories in psychological disciplines/areas?   show
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What are the steps of the scientific method?   show
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show educated guess, falsifiable ideas in should/shouldn't format  
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show explanation of how things work  
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experiment   show
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show specific mental abilities associated with parts of brain  
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hysteria   show
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humanistic psychology   show
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cognitive psychology   show
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show links psychological processes to nervous system  
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show understand links b/w cognitive processes & brain activity  
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evolutionary psychology   show
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social psychology   show
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show how cultures reflect & shape psychological processes  
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show culture has little influence on psychology  
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show phenomena vary & should be viewed in context of specific culture  
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show independent variables (manipulated) dependent variables (measured) control variable (constant)  
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What do experiments help us understand?   show
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show no manipulation helps to see relationships  
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show idiosyncratic - specific to an individual insightful, but not generalizable  
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observational studies   show
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2 important components to research   show
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expectancy factors   show
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demand characteristics   show
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show participants don't know, but researcher does  
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double-blind studies   show
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show replicability & generalizability  
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show replicable in other labs & with a wider audience  
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Mozart effect   show
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show informed consent - sign a form debriefing - tell them everything after confidentiality IRB (institutional review board) - approves studies value - cost/benefit ratio  
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rules of conducting a study   show
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show how well is what you're trying to study measured (most are invalid)  
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types of validity   show
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show replicability  
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show consensus that exists in a method/tool used with studies using subjective judgements  
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show bell curve with concentration near middle  
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descriptive statistics   show
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show evaluate hypotheses using probability  
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types of descriptive statistics   show
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show mean (arithmetic average) median (middle score) mode (most popular response)  
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show extreme values  
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show when there are 2 extremes & very little people are in the middle  
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show range & standard deviation  
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types of data plots   show
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show reliable differences same bar caused by random variation  
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Type I error   show
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Type II error   show
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rule of parsimony   show
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parts of Belmont Report   show
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third variable correlation   show
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matched samples technique   show
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show participant identical to one other in terms of a third variable  
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show soma, nucleus, axon, dendrites, myelin sheath, nodes of ravier  
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axon   show
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dendrites   show
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show facilitates & increases speed of info transfer  
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nodes of ranvier   show
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types of myelin   show
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show afferent (sensory) - periphery to CNS efferent (motor) - CNS to periphery interneurons - shuffling info to help mind think  
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show helps maintains neurons  
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show -provide nutrients -clean up waste -hold neurons in place -insulate neurons -remove dead neurons -create myelin  
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neural transmission   show
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What's the resting potential of a neuron?   show
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What happens to the electrical charge of a neuron during the action potential?   show
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show all or none - either they fire or they don't randomly fires more impulse = more firing  
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2 important components of neural coding   show
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What two ions play a role in neural firing?   show
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show negative  
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show Na ions flow in  
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show K ions flow out & Na gates close  
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What happens during hyperpolarization/refractory period?   show
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What happens in between synapses?   show
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What are the two types of neurons involved in neural firing?   show
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show -excitatory -binds to NMDA & AMPA receptors -deactivated by alcohol -sensory neurons involved with learning -precursor for GABA  
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show -inhibitory -anxiety regulation & learning -stimulated by alcohol, barbituates, benzodiazapine  
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show accentuate/diminish neurotransmitters  
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show agonist & antagonist  
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endorphins   show
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show repress neurotransmitter release  
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show reuptake with autoreceptors enzymatic deactivation/neutralization  
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Prozac   show
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how does learning occur?   show
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two parts of the nervous system   show
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show autonomic (4F's) & somatic (voluntary)  
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show sympathetic (dynamic) & parasympathetic (relaxed)  
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two parts of CNS   show
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three parts of the brain   show
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how is the CNS protected?   show
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how does the brain get its nutrients from the bloodstream?   show
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what is the spinal cord responsible for?   show
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list 3 parts of brain from oldest to newest   show
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show myelencephalon, metencephalon  
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2 parts of myelencephalon   show
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3 parts of metencephalon   show
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2 parts of midbrain/mesencephalon   show
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show motor & metabolic processes  
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show post-mortem activation CT scans (X-ray) MRI (H2O molecules resonate, clearer)  
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what are 4 electrical measures?   show
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show structural imaging allows you to see density of brain & functional imaging allows you to see brain activity  
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show PET (radioisotopes in blood) fMRI (oxygen molecules examined) NIRS (refraction patterns on scalp)  
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show usually more than one part is affected  
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2 parts of forebrain   show
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2 parts of diencephalon   show
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show basal ganglia (striatum, large conscious muscle movement, motor learning) hippocampus (temporary memory creation & integration, conscious learning) amygdala (emotional processes, sense of smell tying experiences together, fear) cerebral cortex  
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3 parts of limbic system   show
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show -study of the mind -bumps & depressions on skull represent different functions  
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4 lobes of the cortex   show
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how many lobes do you have total?   show
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show damaged frontal lobe led to different emotions & behavior  
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show parts dedicated with respect to how sensitive they are  
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show parts dedicated with respect to how much you need to control it  
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mirror neurons (near motor/sensory homunculi)   show
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show TV, sports (stimulating own experiences)  
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example of how primary motor cortex is associated with paralysis   show
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show Broca's (language production) Wernicke's (language comprehension)  
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Broca's aphasia   show
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show trouble understanding others & themselves, talk a lot  
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show contralateral except for sense of smell  
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what is the left hemisphere better at (3)   show
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what is the right hemisphere better at (2)   show
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how do hemispheres exchange information   show
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how does contralateralization work with the visual field?   show
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show K ions flow in and out  
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order of stages of neural firing   show
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salitory conduction   show
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acetylcholine   show
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lack of acetylcholine   show
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dopamine   show
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show Parkinson's  
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show schizophrenia  
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norepinephrine   show
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show -inhibitory -regulation of sleep, eating, aggression  
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show agonist & antagonist for dopamine  
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show -agonist -stimulates release of norepinephrine & dopamine  
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show -antagonist -blocks norepinephrine  
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show hormone-producing system  
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