Psychology
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| show | scientific study of behavior and mental process
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| show | defunct theory that specific mental abilities and characteristics were localized to specific areas of the brain
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| show | a method by which the human mind is defined in the simplest components (Hemholtz)
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| clinical psychology | show 🗑
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| show | an approach to understanding human behavior that emphasizes the importance of unconscious mental processes in shaping feelings, thoughts and behaviors
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| cognitive psychology | show 🗑
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| contemporary psychology | show 🗑
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| tenacity | show 🗑
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| empiricism | show 🗑
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| show | phenomenon of perceiving a relationship between two variables when no actual relationship exists
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| show | gap between the axon of one cell and the dendrites of another
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| neurotransmitters | show 🗑
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| show | drugs that increase action of a neurotransmitter
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| show | drugs that block the function of a neurotransmitter
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| nervous system | show 🗑
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| central nervous system | show 🗑
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| peripheral nervous system | show 🗑
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| show | set of nerves that conveys info between voluntary muscles and the central nervous system
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| show | set of nerves that carries involuntary and automatic commands that control blood vessels, body organs and glands
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| sympathetic nervous system | show 🗑
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| parasympathetic nervous system | show 🗑
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| show | master gland, releases a hormone that directs the functions of many other glands in the endocrine system
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| show | produces melatonin, regulates sleep patterns
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| thyroid gland | show 🗑
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| show | regulates salt and metabolism
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| show | process visual info
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| parietal lobe | show 🗑
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| show | responsible for hearing and language
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| show | responsible for movement, abstract thinking, planning, memory and judgment
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| show | responsible for execution of movement
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| electroencephalogram | show 🗑
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| PET scan | show 🗑
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| MRI | show 🗑
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| show | delivers a magnetic pulse through the skull
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| brain plasticity | show 🗑
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| developmental psychology | show 🗑
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| teratogens | show 🗑
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| show | "top to bottom" rule, infants will gain control of their head before they gain control of their feet
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| proximodistal rule | show 🗑
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| sensorimotor stage | show 🗑
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| show | theories about the way the world works
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| assimilation | show 🗑
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| show | process by which infants change their schemas due to new info
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| show | belief that an object still exists, even when you cannot see it
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| show | 2-6 years
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| concrete operational stage | show 🗑
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| show | 11 years and up
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| show | stage in which the morality of an action is determined by the consequences for the actor
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| conventional stage | show 🗑
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| postconventional stage | show 🗑
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| oral-sensory stage | show 🗑
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| muscular-anal stage | show 🗑
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| show | 3 to 6 years
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| latency stage | show 🗑
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| adolescence stage | show 🗑
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| show | 19 to 40 years
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| show | 40 to 65 years
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| maturity stage | show 🗑
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| memory | show 🗑
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| semantic encoding | show 🗑
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| visual imagery encoding | show 🗑
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| organizational encoding | show 🗑
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| show | type of storage that holds sensory info for only a few seconds
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| iconic memory | show 🗑
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| show | fast-decaying store of auditory info
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| show | fast-decaying store of touch-based info
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| show | type of memory that holds non-sensory info for more than a few seconds but less than a minute
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| long-term storage | show 🗑
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| semantic memory | show 🗑
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| episodic memory | show 🗑
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| procedural memory | show 🗑
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| show | inability to make new memories
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| show | inability to retrieve old memories
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| transience | show 🗑
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| show | failure to retrieve info from your memory, even when you try to access it
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| memory misattribution | show 🗑
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| suggestibility | show 🗑
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| show | intrusive recollection of events that we wish we could forget
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| show | relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience
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| habituation | show 🗑
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| show | stage where the neutral stimulus is first associated with the unconditioned stimulus
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| second-order conditioning | show 🗑
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| extinction | show 🗑
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| show | tendency of a learned behavior to recover from extinction after a rest period
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| show | when the CR is observed even when the CS is slightly different from the CS used in acquisition
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| personality | show 🗑
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| repression | show 🗑
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| show | offers self-justifying explanations in place of real reasons for ones actions
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| projection | show 🗑
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| show | leads an individual faced with anxiety to retreat to a more infantile psychosexual stage
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| displacement | show 🗑
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| show | dealing with feelings of threat and anxiety by unconsciously taking on the characteristics of another person who seems more powerful
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| sublimation | show 🗑
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| social psychology | show 🗑
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| show | process by which people come to understand others
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| show | people provide casual explanations for someone else's behavior
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| situational attribution | show 🗑
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| show | decision that a person's behavior is influenced by their personality
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| fundamental-attribution error | show 🗑
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| show | tendency to make situational attributions for your actions but to make dispositional attributions for others actions
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| foot-in-the-door phenomenon | show 🗑
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| show | influence strategy that involves getting an individual to deny an outrageous request, making them more likely to agree to a reasonable request
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| show | unpleasant state that occurs when a person recognizes that there is inconsistency between attitudes and actions
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| social influence | show 🗑
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| show | occurs when another person's behavior provides info about what is appropriate
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| show | occurs when another person's behavior provides info about what is true
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| social facilitation | show 🗑
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| show | tendency of an individual in a group to exert less effort towards a goal than when tested individually
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| show | loss of self-awareness and restraint in group situations
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| groupthink | show 🗑
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| altruism | show 🗑
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| equity | show 🗑
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| show | act of reveling intimate aspects of oneself to others
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| reciprocal altruism | show 🗑
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| mere exposure effect | show 🗑
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| passionate love | show 🗑
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| show | experience involving affection, trust and concern for a partner's wellbeing
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| show | suggests that we aggress when our desires are frustrated
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| show | tendency for people to behave as expected to behave
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| show | fear of confirming negative beliefs that others hold
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| show | tendency for people to see what they want to see
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| subtyping | show 🗑
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| show | characterized by feelings of apprehension and anxiety
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| show | characterized by excessive fear and avoidance of specific things
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| obsessive compulsive disorders | show 🗑
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| show | pattern of emotionally withdrawn behavior toward adult caregivers
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| show | characterized by chronic thoughts or image of trauma
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| show | similar to major depressive disorder but lasts 2 years
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| show | characterized by cycles of abnormal, persistent high mood and low mood for at least 2 years
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| show | characterized by enduring patterns of relating to others and controlling impulses
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| Thomas Hobbes | show 🗑
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| show | father of modern psychology
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| show | believed that the mind and body were different but they interacted through a single link, the pineal gland
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| Carl Jung | show 🗑
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| Alfred Adler | show 🗑
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| show | founded feminist psychology, neo-Freudian
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| J.B. Watson | show 🗑
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| show | founded radical behaviorism
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| show | positive psychology, Maslow's hierarchy
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| show | man who had a rod go through his head and his whole demeanor changed
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| show | law of effect (rewarded behavior is likely to occur again)
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| Albert Bandura | show 🗑
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| Heider | show 🗑
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| Philippe Pinel | show 🗑
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