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Test #2

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Definition
Consciousness   Awareness of external events and internal sensations which occurs under conditions of arousal  
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Awareness   Prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate and association areas; global brain workspace  
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Arousal   Reticular activation system; ways that awareness is regulated: alert vs relaxed/ drowsy  
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Higher level conciousness   Slower, controlled processing, actively focus efforts toward a goal, requires attention. DIFFICULT TO DO OTHER THINGS AT SAME TIME  
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Lower- level conciousness   Automatic processes and daydreaming  
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Automatic processes   Require little attention/ conscious effort. Do not interfere with other ongoing activities  
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Daydreaming   Wandering thought, fantasy, imagination, rumination. Poterntially useful ( reminding, solving)  
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Subconscious awareness   Incubation, parallel processing ( ex. name pops into head after trying to think of it earlier.)  
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Sleep and Dreams   Low levels of consciousness of outside world  
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No awareness   Unconscious (censored) thought- Freud, non conscious processes  
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Theory of Mind   Awareness/ knowledge that people think and have private experiences  
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Individuals with autism   Lack Theory of Mind (also small infants don't have theory of mind)  
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Periodic Physiological Fluctuation   Controlled by biological clocks, annual or seasonal.  
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Circadian Rhythms   24 hour cycles monitored by suprachlasmatic nucleus  
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Ultradian Rhythms   90 minute cycles  
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How do you desynchronize the biological clock?   Jet lag, shift- work problems, insomnia  
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How do you reset the biological clock?   Bright light, melatonin (hormone)  
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Beta waves   Alert, high frequency and low amplitude  
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Alpha waves   Relaxed, increase in amplitude, synchronus  
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Stage one   Theta waves, slower frequency and greater amplitude  
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Stage two   Theta waves, sudden increase in wave frequency, sleep spindles  
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Stage three   <50% delta waves, slowest frequency and highest amplitude  
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Stage four   >50% delta waves, difficult to wake sleepers  
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Rapid Eye Movement sleep   Rapid eve movement, dreaming  
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Sleep Stages   90-100 minutes, change during night. 60%- Stages 1&2 sleep, 20%- Stages 3&4 sleep, 20% REM sleep  
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Reticular Formation   Critical role in sleep and arousal  
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Neurotransmitters with sleep   Serotonin, norepinephrine, and acetylcholine  
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Freud's Psychodynamic Approach   Manifest and latent content  
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Cognitive Theory   Information processing and memory  
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Activation- Synthesis Theory   Brain makes "sense" out of random brain activity orginating in lower brain centers  
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Reward Pathway   Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA), Nucleus Accumbens (NAC), Prefrontal Cortex  
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Depressants   Alcohol, barbiturates, tranquilizers, opiates  
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Stimulants   Caffeine, nicotine, amphetamines, cocaine, MDMA (ecstasy)  
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Barbituates   Sleeping pill  
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Tranqilizers   Anxiety reduction  
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Opiates   Narcotics, pain relief  
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Amphetamines   Weight control  
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Cocaine   Local anestheic  
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Hallucinogens   Marijuana, LSD  
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Hypnosis   Altered attention and expectation, Unusual receptiveness to suggestions  
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Hypnosis steps   1. Distractions are minimized 2. Told to concentrate on something specific 3. Told what to expect 4. Certain obvious events/ feelings are suggested  
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Divided State of Consciousness   Hilgard. Obedient to hypnotist, hidden observer  
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Social Cognitive Behavior   Normal conscious state, social expectation for how to act hypnotized  
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Learning   A systematic, relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs through experience  
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Associational Learning   Either Classical or Operant conditioning  
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Classical Conditioning   Stimulus1 associated with stimulus 2  
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Operant Conditioning   Behavior -> Concequences  
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Unconditional Stimulus   Dog smells food  
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Unconditioned Response   Dog salivates  
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Neutral Stimulus   Does not have meaning, bell before  
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Acquisition   How something is learned from neutral to conditioned stimulus  
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Conditioned Stimulus   Sound of Pavlov's bell  
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Unconditioned Response   Dog salivating  
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Contiguity   How long in between conditioned stimulus and unconditional stimulus  
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Contingency   Is CS regularly followed by UCS?  
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Generalization   CR may appear after various NS that are similar to the CS  
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Discrimination   CR appear after the CS but not after other CSs. Learned by presenting other CS without UCS  
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Skinner   Behavior is a function of our consequence  
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Extinction   CR weakened when CS without UCS  
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Spontaneous Recovery   CR reoccurs after a time delay without additional learning  
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Renewal   Recovery of the CR when organism is placed in novel context  
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Watson and Rayner   White rat and loud noise  
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Counterconditioning   Associate CS with new, incompatible CR, CS paired with new USC, adverse conditioning  
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Classical conditioning applications   Placebo effect, immune and endocrine response, taste aversion, advertising, drug habituation  
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Operant Conditioning   Better at explaining voluntary behavior, the consequences of a behavior change the probability of that behavior’s occurrence  
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Thorndike's Law of Effect   Consequence strengthens or weakens as S-R connection  
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B. F. Skinner   Expanded on Thorndike's work. Shaping (reward approximation of desired behavior).  
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Positive Reinforcement   Behavior followed by rewarding consequence. Rewarding stimulus is added.  
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Negative Reinforcement   Behavior followed by rewarding consequence. Aversive (Unpleasant) stimulus is "removed"  
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Avoidance Reinforcement   By avoiding a particular response, certain stimuli is avoided.  
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Learned Helplessness   Sligman, an organism learns it has no control over negative outcomes  
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Primary Reinforcement   Innately satisfying  
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Secondary Reinforcers   Becomes satisfying through experience, repeated association with pre-existing reinforcer. Money or token economy.  
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Generalization   Stimulus "sets the occasion" for the response. Responding occurs to similar stimuli  
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Discrimination   Stimuli signal when behavior will or will not be reinforced  
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Extinction and Spontaneous Recovery   Behavior decreases when reinforcement stops.  
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Ratio   Number of times behavior has to happen before it gets reinforced  
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Interval   Length of time after behavior for reward.  
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Fixed Ratio   Reinforcement follows a set # of behaviors  
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Variable Ratio   Reinforcement follow in unpredictable number of behaviors. Most resistant to extinction  
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Punishment   Punishment decreases behavior.  
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Positive Punishment   Behavior followed by aversive consequence. Unpleasant stimulus is added  
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Negative Punishment   Behavior followed by aversive consequence. Rewarded stimulus is removed  
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Observational Learning   learning occurs when a person observes and imitates behavior (modeling)  
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Albert Bandura   Social Cognitive Theory  
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Four processes of SCT   Attention, Retention, Motor repetition, Reinforcement.  
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Memory   Retention of information or experience over time  
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Three phases of memory   Ecoding, storage, retrieval  
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Encoding types   Automatic vs. effortful encoding  
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Selective Attention   Purposive focus  
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Divided attention   Multitasking, reduces performance  
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Sustained attention   Vigilance  
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Shallow Processing   Physical an perceptual features are analyzed  
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Intermediate Processing   Stimulus is recognized and labeled  
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Deep Processing   Semantic, meaningful, symbolic characteristics are used  
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Elaboration   Creating multiple connections around a stimulus, can enhance memory  
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Dual code hypothesis   (Paivio) Two ways, verbal code and image code  
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Atkinson- Shiffrin Model   Sensory, Short term, and long term memory  
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Explicit Long term memory   Declarative. Two kinds, episodic, semantic  
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Episodic memory   Life's happening  
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Semantic memory   Factual knowledge  
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Implicit long term memory   Non declarative. Procedural memory, classical conditioning,& priming.  
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Procedural memory   Riding a bike  
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Priming   Activation of info already in storage to help remember new information better and faster  
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Parallel distributed processing   Memories are stored throughout the brain in connecting among neurons  
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Serial Position Effect   Tendency to recall items at the beginning and at the end of a series better than those at the middle  
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Herman Ebbinhaus   The bulk of forgetting takes place soon after the learning.  
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Encoding Failure   Information never really got into long term memory  
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Retrieval failure/ interference theory   Proactive and Retroactive  
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Proactive interference   Old material gets in way of new material  
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Retroactive interference   New material gets in way of old material  
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Decay theroy   Passage of time causes forgetting--> does not explain all  
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Tip of the tongue phenomenon   Effortful retrieval ( Some information, but not all)  
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Prospective memory   Remembering to do something in the future (absentmindedness)  
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Anterograde amnesia   Cannot save any new information  
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Retrograde amnesia   Can't retrieve old information  
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Most problems of recall are due to...   interference  
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Cognition   How information is processed and manipulated when remembering, thinking, and knowing.  
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Concepts   Mental categories used to group objects, events, and characteristics  
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Prototype Model   All instances of a concept are compared to a prototype (ideal example) of that concept  
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Fixation   Using a prior strategy only- failure to look at problem from fresh viewpoint  
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Functional fixedness   Fixated on usual functions  
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Inductive reasoning   Driven by data: bottom-up: specific to general  
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Deductive reasoning   Driven by logic: top- down: general to specific  
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System one- Automatic   Rapid, heuristic, intuitive  
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System two- Controlled   Slower, effortful, analytical  
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Conformation bias   Search only for info that supports our ideals  
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Hindsight bias   Report falsely that we predicted an outcome  
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Availability Heuristic   Predict probability based on ease of recall  
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Base rate fallacy   Ignore info about general principles  
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Representativeness Heuristic   Make judgements based on stereotypes  
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Critical thinking   Thinking reflectively and productively and evaluationg evidence  
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Mindfulness   Being alert and mentally present  
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Open- mindedness   Receptive to new ways of looking at things  
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Divergent vs Convergent thinking   Divergent thinking produces many solutions while convergent thinking tries to produce single best solution  
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Intellegence   An all purpose ability to do well on cognitive tasks, solve problems, and learn from experience  
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Binet   Mental Age  
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Stern   Intelligence Quotient  
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Stanford- Binet Test   Normal distribution and other IQ tests (Wechsler)  
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Terman   Socially well adjusted and successful as adults ( not "egg heads")  
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Flynn effect   Scores raise over time  
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Sternberg's Triarchic Theory   Analytical Intelligence, creative intelligence, practical intellegence  
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Howard Gardner's "Frames of Mind"   Verbal, mathematical, spatial, bodily- kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalist, existentialist, musical  
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Language   Form of spoken, written, or signed communication based on symbols  
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Infinite Generativity   Ability to produce an endless number of meaningful sentences  
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Phonology   Basic Phonemes (sounds)  
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Morphology   Rules for word formation  
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Syntax   Rules for combining words to form phrases and sentences  
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Semantics   Meaning of words and sentences  
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Pragmatics   Use of language  
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Whorf's linguistic relativity hypothesis   Language determines thought  
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Cognitive Appraisal   A person's interpretation of a situation  
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Coping   Problem Solving  
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Primary Appraisal   Threat or loss  
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Secondary Appraisal   Evaluate Resources  
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Cognitive Reappraisal   Regulating our feelings about experience by reinterpreting it  
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