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What marked founding of psych and who   Wilhelm Wundt , 1879 – FOUNDING OF PSYCHOLOGY  
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basic premise of behaviorism-what motivates us   emphasizes choice, self-direction, actualizing tendency  
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basic premise of humanism-what motivates us   Emphasized choice, free will, drive to fulfill potential  
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Difference of clinical psychology and psychiartrists   psychiatrists are medical doctors and psychologists are notreplication  
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difference between hypothesis and theory   theory be broad. hypo be narrow and measurable  
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difference between descriptive and experimental methods   Descriptive – Who what where when – Association. Experimental – CAUSE AND EFFECT  
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why random selection is used   selection—every member of larger group has equal chance of being selected for the study sample  
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know how to interpret a correlation coefficient strength and direction   Numerical indication of magnitude and direction of the relationship between two variables  
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be able to find an independent variable and dependent varible experimental study   the controlled factor in an experiment. dependent- the measured facts  
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know what random assignment is   assignment—every subject in the study should have an equal chance of being placed in either the experimental or control group  
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what is operational definition   n terms of the specific process or set of validation tests used to determine its presence and quantity  
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what is free association   psychoanalytic patients are invited to relate whatever comes into their minds during the analytic session, and not to censor their thoughts  
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what is the id   the unconscious, impulsive part of brain  
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what is libido   sex drive  
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ego defense mechanism   Repression—keeping anxiety-producing thoughts out of the conscious mind – the most fundamental ego defense mechanism. Reaction formation—replacing an unacceptable wish with its opposite. Displacement—when a drive directed to one activity by the id is redi  
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role of ego in personality   makes rational descisions  
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freuds of stages of psychosexual development   oral, anal, phallic, latent, genital  
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what carl roger believed motivates human actions   Actualizing tendency—innate drive to maintain and enhance the human organism.  
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bandura's ideas of reciprocal development   cognitive <->enviromental factors <-> behavioral factors  
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self-efficacy   one's capablities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations  
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demension of eysenick's model of personality   Introversion-extraversion, Neuroticism-emotional stability, Psychoticism  
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what is most widely accept trait thoery   Five Factor Model  
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projective tests   evaluating self  
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three types of nuerons   sensory-From sensory organs to the brain and spinal cord. motor-From the brain and spinal cord, to the muscles and glands. interneurons-carry information between other neurons only found in the brain and spinal cord.  
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process of which an action potentional is perpetuated down the axon   Before stimulation, a neuron or muscle cell has a slightly negative electric polarization; that is, its interior has a negative charge compared with the extracellular fluid. This polarized state is created by a high concentration of positively charged sod  
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synaptic vesicles and what they carry   neurotransmitters  
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neurotransmitter   open receptor sites to allow communication between neurons  
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what is runner's high   feeling of pleasure after a long run is due in part to heavy endorphin release  
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to main divisions of nervous system   Sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions of the nervous system  
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sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems symp- arouse body to spend energy. para- calms the body    
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how the endocrine system communicates   HORMONES  
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lesion   damage on the brain  
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when is the cerebellum is impaired   neurotranmitters not working  
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job of hippocampus   formation of new memories  
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symptoms of damages to broca's area and wernicke's area   broca's plays role in speech production. Wernike’s area—plays role in plays role in understanding and meaningful speech “Don’t glow glover. Yes, umm, bick bo chipickers the dallydoe mick more work mittle”  
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what is absolute threshold   threshold—smallest strength of a stimulus that can be detected 1/2 of the time  
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lens of the eye and accommodation   – lens gets thicker or thinner to change how light falls on retina  
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fovea of the eye   center of eye (fovea)  
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difference between nerve and conduction deafness   nerve- permanit. condition- can be helped  
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sensory adaptation   getting used to a sense  
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pain and substance p   transfer pain signal  
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moon illusion   People perceive objects on the horizon as being farther away than stuff in the sky, because there’s all this stuff between them and the horizon.  
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gesalt laws   LAW OF SIMPLICITY – we tend to group things into the most simple arrangement.Proximity Similarity Closure Good Continuation  
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psychoanalysis   Psychoanalytic—importance of unconscious processes and childhood experiences  
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behavorism   Emphasis on the role of the environment in determining behavior  
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humanism   importance of self and fulfillment of potential  
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biological   Study the physiological mechanisms in the brain and nervous system that organize and control behavior  
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evolutionary   – psychological processes that promote success in environment = more likely to survive and pass on genes = why we do what we do today  
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