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| Belief that you knew something all along. |
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| over estimate the extent to which others share our beliefs or behaviors. |
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| takes part in an experiment but works with the researcher. |
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| Participants are randomly placed into groups. |
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| a variable the researcher can manipulate in an experiment. |
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| That is affected by the independent variable |
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| see if 2 variables are related (causality) |
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| watching people perform everyday tasks |
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| random variability accidentally introduced in an experiment |
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| unreasonable judgement (researcher) affecting the results. |
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| measurement that yields similar results everytime it's used. |
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| Measurement measures what is intended to measure. |
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| Institutional Review Board |
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| regardless of the size two stimuli must differ by a constant proportion for the difference to be noticeable. |
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| negative feeling caused by external stimulus(burn) |
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| derives from a malfunction in the CNS (disturb cellular functioning) |
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| occurs when sensory information from internal and external areas converges on the same nerve cells in the spinal cord. |
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| Physical, Cognitive, ans Social changes that we experience through our life spans. |
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| Mental activities associated with sensation, perception, thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. |
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| The smallest meaningful units that represent the objects, events, ideas, characteristics, and relationships in a languages vocabulary. |
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| Heightened bodily reaction to a stimulus. |
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| The brains remembered response to experiencing an emotion. |
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| Preservation and Protection Theory |
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| The Farmer sleeps at night because it's too dark and dangerous to farm then. |
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| Keisha just won a chess tournament. Her mother promised $100 dollars if she won, so Keisha is quite excited. |
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| Cody just won a cross country race and feels very proud of himself. |
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| A theory that suggests that people may carry out altruistic acts with the expectation of being the recipient of altruism at some point in the future or because they have been helped by altruism sometime in the past. |
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| Peripheral Route processing |
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| A path persuasion that involves evaluating an argument based on tangential cues rather than on the arguments merits. |
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| Tyrone and Jacob agree to participate in an on campus study. They report to a room in the psychology building where they are seated in front of a computer to answer a number of questions. What is the study methodology called? |
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IRB
Institutional Review Board |
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| The organization responsible for ensuring that all the research conducted by psychologists is ethical. |
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| A neuron receives a signal that surpasses the threshold required for the neuron to fire, so the neuron fires, sending the signal on to the neuron. Another neuron receives a signal that does not surpass the threshold required for the neuron to fire, so the neuron fails to fire, and the signal is stopped. The two neurons demonstrated what principle? |
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| Brandy was in a car accident and sustained severe brain damage. She is still capable of breathing, swallowing, and vomiting on her own. Her pulse is also steady and her heart is beating normally. This area of her brain must still be intact: |
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| Julio is performing a complicated ballet routine. This part of his brain is working to control and coordinate his movements. |
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| Lois is behaving and thinking erratically. It's as if all the messages are being sent to her brain are being sent to the wrong areas in her brain. The doctor suspects that the post office of Lois' brain is damaged. This great relay station of the brain is called what? |
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| Albee realizes that he is thirsty. The part of Albee's brain that is sending out this message about body regulation is called what? |
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| Georgia's cat scratches the carpet with his claws. In order to save her carpet, Georgia squirts her cat with a water gun every time he scratches. After a week, the cat i no longer scratching the carpet. |
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| Last semester, Anita sat next to a cute classmate in her class who always wore a specific cologne. Every time that she saw this classmate, Anita involuntary blushed. A month after the semester ended, Anita was walking past the after shave counter in a drug store and smelled the cologne that her classmate used. Without even realizing it, Anita began to blush. This is an example of: |
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| Involved in behavior, hearing, memory, olfactory area and vision. |
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| Involved in balance, coordination, involved in functions like language, attention, fear and pleasure. |
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| Consists of the pons, midbrain, medulla oblongata, and reticular formation. |
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| Involved in intelligence, language, reading, sensation. |
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| Part of the limbic system: involved in fear detection and conditioning; it is essential for unconscious emotional responses such as the fight or flight response. |
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| Direct manipulation of a variable. |
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| minimum difference b/w two stimuli needed to detect the difference 50% of the time. |
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| A specialized brain cell that only responds to particular elements in the visual field. |
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| Located at the top of the brain stem. Contains thalamus, hippothalmus and epithalamus. |
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| Plays a role in the regulation of body temperature, water balance and metabolism. |
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| Involved in behavior, intelligence, memory, & movement. |
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| Consists of the pineal body and the choroid plexus |
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| part of the brain involved in processing explicit memories, recognizing and recalling long-term memories and conditioning. |
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| carry signals away from brain to muscles & glands. |
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| A type of learning in which organisms associate their actions with consequences. |
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| The belief that you knew something all along. |
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| Measurable response to the independent variable. |
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| A group of participants in an experiment who are subject to an independent variable. |
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| Connects the cerebral hemispheres and allows the hemispheres to communicate. |
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| Relay station for sensory impulses passing to the cortex. |
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| Shallow grooves that separate the gyrus. |
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| A part of the frontal lobe that initiates the movements needed to produce speech. |
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| smallest amount of energy needed for a person to detect a stimulus 50% of the time. |
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| take signals from sensory organs to CNS. |
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| detect physical energy & code energy as neural signs |
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| The variable that the researcher can manipulate. |
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| A group of participants in an experiment who are either given no treatment or who are given treatment that should have no effect. |
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| A person who takes part in an experiment but works with the researcher. |
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| A measurement to the degree to which it measures what is it intended to measure. |
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(Institutional Review Board) |
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| Institution are required by law to establish ethics review panels that evaluate all purposed research. |
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| Consists of 2 parts: Cerebral Peduncles (carries information about body movement) and corpora quadregimina (reflex center for viision and hearing) |
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| Deeper grooves that separate large regions of the brain. |
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| Most inferior part of the brain stem. Turns into the spinal cord. It helps control heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, swallowing, and vomiting. |
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| Elevated ridge of tissue in the cerebral cortex. |
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sensory receptor cells become less responsive to an unchanging stimulus
Walking into a barn and smelling a bad smell. Once you keep smelling the smell you will get used to it and it will not bother you anymore. |
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| Transitts signal between motor and sensory neurons. |
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| Strengthens a response by presenting a pleasurable response |
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| when 2 stimuli are associated creating a reflex response. |
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| describes the way a person selects, organizes, & interprets information. |
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Pyschological research can prove a theory.
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