General Psycholog Midterm Review
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| show | Virgina Tech
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| show | scientific study of behavior and mental processes
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| Psychologists try to: | show 🗑
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| Behavior and mental processes: encompasses not only what people do but their | show 🗑
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| show | studies how living organisms develop behaviors in response to current conditions
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| show | studies similarities/differences in psychological function in cultures and ethnic groups
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| Developmental Psychology | show 🗑
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| Cognitive Psychology | show 🗑
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| show | studies how behavior is influenced by our genetic inheritance
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| show | studies relationship between psychological factors and physical ailments or disease
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| show | studies consistency in people's behavior over time and the traits that differentiate one person from another
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| Psychologists: A Portrait (Minorities Preferences Re: Treatment) | show 🗑
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| Psychodynamic Perspective | show 🗑
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| Behavioral Perspective | show 🗑
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| show | all individuals naturally strive to grow, develop and be in control of their lives and behavior
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| show | Behavior is relegated by their biology versus their upbringing
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| show | "1. Identifying questions of interests
2.Formulating an explanation
3. Carrying out research designed to support or refute the explanation
4. Communicating the findings "
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| Prologue "The Deepest Cut" | show 🗑
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| Neuroscientist | show 🗑
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| show | Biological factors are central to our sensory experience, states of consciousness, motivation and emotion, development throughout life and physical and psychological health
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| show | nerve cells, the basic elements of the nervous system
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| show | chemicals that carry messages across the synapse to the dendrite (and sometimes the cell body) of a receiver neuron
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| Endocrine System | show 🗑
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| Mater Gland | show 🗑
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| show | symmetrical left and right halves of the brain that control the side of the body opposite to their location
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| show | dominance of one hemisphere of the brain in specific functions, such as language
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| Left Hemisphere | show 🗑
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| show | spatial relations, recognition of patters and drawings, music, emotion expression; processes information as a whole
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| Prologue "Only Blank Faces" | show 🗑
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| Sensation | show 🗑
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| show | Process by which organism interprets, analyzes and integrates that stimulus with other sensory information
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| Color Blindness | show 🗑
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| Most common form of color blindness | show 🗑
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| show | cannot differentiate between yellow/blue
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| Least common form of color blindness | show 🗑
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| show | three kinds of cones in the retina, each of which responds to a specific range of wavelength; One to blue-violet, one to green, third to red-yellow; Perception of color influenced by which cone is activated
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| show | receptor cells, linked in pairs, working in opposite direction to each other; Blue yellow pairing, red-green pairing, black-white pairing; Object reflects light that is more blue than yellow, stimulates blue cells, inhibit others
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| Eardrum | show 🗑
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| Cochlea | show 🗑
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| show | "vibrating structure that runs through the center of cochlea, dividing it into upper and lower chamber and containing sense receptors for sound
-Covered in hair membranes: when bent by vibrations, send neural messages to brain"
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| Place theory of hearing | show 🗑
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| show | theory that entire basilar membrane acts like microphone, vibrating as a whole in response to sound.
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| Semicircular canals | show 🗑
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| show | tiny motion sensitive crystals in the semicircular canals, sense acceleration forward, backwards, or up and down, as well as constant pull of gravity.
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| show | Series of principles that describe how we organize bits and pieces of information into meaningful wholes
-Perception goes beyond individual elements that we sense, represents an active, constructive process carried out in brain"
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| show | Perception of messages about which we have no awareness
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| Prologue "Nodding Off" | show 🗑
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| show | Awareness of the sensations, thoughts, and feelings being experienced at any given moment
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| Waking consciousness | show 🗑
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| Altered states of consciousness | show 🗑
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| Unconscious wish fulfillment theory | show 🗑
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| Latent content of dreams | show 🗑
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| Manifest content of dreams | show 🗑
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| Dreams-for-survival theory | show 🗑
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| show | Hobson's theory that the brain produces random electrical energy during REM sleep that stimulates memories lodged in various portions of the brain
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| show | Rapid eye movement: sleep occupying 20 percent of an adult's sleep time, characterized by increased heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing rate; erections; eye movements; and the experience of dreaming.
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| Sleeping Better | show 🗑
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| Insomnia | show 🗑
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| Night Terrors | show 🗑
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| show | uncontrolled sleeping periods that occur for short periods while a person is awake, ppl go directly from awake to REM sleep
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| Effectiveness of Hypnosis | show 🗑
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| show | Learned technique for refocusing attention that brings about an altered state of consciousness
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| show | "Repeated evaluations have been unable to demonstrate that program effective in reducing drug use over the long term
-One study showed graduates were more likely to use marijuana than was a comparison groups of non-graduates"
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| show | Always getting high, to high to go to work/class, feeling badly after because of something you did or said, legal problems, unable to stop, need it to get through the day, thinking about it all the time, avoiding family/friends
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| show | Learning is a fundamental topic for psychologists
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| Learning | show 🗑
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| show | A type of learning in which a neutral stimulus comes to bring about a response after its paired with a stimulus that naturally brings about that response
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| show | Pavlovs dogs: bell rang + food = salivate, conditioned to salivate after just hearing bell
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| Operant Conditioning | show 🗑
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| Law of Effect | show 🗑
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| show | Learning by observing the behavior of another person, or model; Referred to social cognitive approach to learning
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| Punishment | show 🗑
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| show | makes viewers more susceptible to acting aggressively
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| Exposure to violence in media may: | show 🗑
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| show | pt can form sentences but remembers nothing about past and only patchy facts about the world
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| Memory | show 🗑
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| show | initial process of recording information in a form usable to memory
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| Memory Storage | show 🗑
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| show | material in storage must be located and brought into awareness
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| show | initial, momentary storage of information that lasts an instance
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| Short Term Memory | show 🗑
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| show | information stored on a relatively permanent basis, though may be difficult to recall
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| show | Reducing the intensity of traumatic memory may reduce their effect on people later in life, use of propranolol in treatment of PTSD/Tramatic events
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| Eyewitness Identification | show 🗑
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| Children as witnesses | show 🗑
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| show | Disease that afflicts long-term alcoholics, leaving some abilities intact but including hallucinations and tendency to repeat stories
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| show | Illness characterized in part by severe memory problems, 4th leading cause of death among adults in us, May be genetic: inherited susceptibility to defect in production of protein beta amyloid, necessary in the maintenance of nerve cell connections
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| Rober Ptman's Research/Propranolol Use Study | show 🗑
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| Goals of propranolol study | show 🗑
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| Cognitive Psychology | show 🗑
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| Creativity | show 🗑
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| Divergent Thinking | show 🗑
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| show | the ability to produce responses that are based primarily on knowledge and logic
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| Animal Language Development | show 🗑
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| Chimps (Language Development) | show 🗑
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| Critics (Language Development) | show 🗑
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| show | Lack of firm evidence that animals can recognize and respond to the mental state of others of their species, an important aspect of human communication
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| Intelligence | show 🗑
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| show | Minimum of eight forms of intelligence, relatively independent of each other: musical, bodily kinesthetics, logical-mathematical, linguistic, spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal and naturalist
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| show | "A score that takes into account an individuals mental and chronological age
IQ score = mental age/ chronological age x 100"
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| Mental Retardation | show 🗑
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| Fetal Alcohol Syndrome | show 🗑
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| Achievement Test | show 🗑
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| show | A test designed to predict a persons ability in a particular area or line of work
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| show | The 2-4% of the population who have IQs greater than 130; Most often well adjusted and outgoing, healthy and popular people who do most things better than the average person can
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| Culture Fair IQ Test | show 🗑
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