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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
03/15/2011

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cells the nervous system use to communicate wit one anothother to perform info processing tasks
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neurons
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insulating layer of fatty material covering the axon in many neurons
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myelin sheath
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Neuron resbonsible for connecting all the rest
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Intereonuos
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The time following an action potential during which a new action potential cannot be intiated
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refractory period
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A terminal button is filled with tiny vesicles bags that contain what?
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Neurotransmitters
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drugs that increase the action of a neurotransmitter
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agonist
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The scientific study of mind and behavior
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Psychology
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(T/F)The mind is made up of perceptions memories and feelings
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True
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Observable actions of the things you do with others solely.
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Behavior
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T/F  Scientists sometimes say that form follows funtion.
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TRUE
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T/F  William James says thinking is doing
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TRUE
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T/F  Emotions are adaptive
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True
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Structuarlists focus on how mental abilities allow people to adapt to their enviroment.  T/F
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False
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Argued Nativism
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Plato
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Analasyis of the basic elements that constitue the mind.
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Structuralism
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study of the purpose mental processes serve in enabling people to adapt to their environment.
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functionalism
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mind imposes organization on what it perceives
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gestalism
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an approach that emphasizes the importance of unconscious mental processes
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Psycoanalytic
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Type of pyschology that puts the patient and therapist on equal footing.
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Humanistic Psychology
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Links psychological processes to ativities in the nervous system and other bodily processes.
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Behavioral neuroscience
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The fiel that attempts to understand the links between cognitive processes and brain activity
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Cognitive Neuroscience
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The product of exteranl and internal forces
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social behavior
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T/F   Cultural psychology is the study of the causes and consequences of interpersonal behavior.
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False
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T/F  Procrastination can be thought as a mindbug
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True
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Encoding, storage and retrevial are the 3 key functions of...
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Memory
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T/F  Memories are constructed, not recorded
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True
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Long Term retention is greatest enhanced by..
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Elaborative encoding
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Noticing the relatioship among a series of items
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Organizational encoding
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Process by which we transform what our senses take in and what we experience into lasting memory
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Encoding
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Most dynamic model of limited capacity memory system developed
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Sensory memory
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Memory where people consciously or intentionally retrieve past experiences.
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Explicit Memory
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The distinct perceptual experience where someone who hears musical notes and it evokes visual sensations of color
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Synethesia
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Developed psychopphysics
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Fechner
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The JND of a stimulus is a constant proportion despite variations in intensity
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Webers Law
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Becoming adapt to things that affect your senses
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Sensory Adaptation
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Things responsible for color perception
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Cones
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Depicting frequency of sound
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Auditory sense
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Depicting light waves
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optic sense
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ORNS initiates its action
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olfactory sense(smell)
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Related to phantom pain syndrome
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Tactile sense (touch)
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Marketers exploiting senses to promote a product
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Sensory branding
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The shift that laid the foundation of modern science 
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Dogmatism to empiricism 
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How do we measure physical properties in the Scientific method?
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defining and detecting
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