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Definition of plasticity
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The brain's ability to change, especially during childhood, by reorganizing after damage or by building new pathways based on experience.z
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Why are association areas important
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Association areas are involved in higher mental functions -interpreting, integrating, and acting on information processed in sensory areas.
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Consciousness
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Our awareness of ourselves and our environment
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What are the mind's two tracks, and what is dual processing
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Our mind has separate conscious and unconscious tracks that perform dual processing -organizing and interpreting information simultaneously.
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What is sampling blas, and how do researchers avoid it.
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Random sampling helps researchers avoid sampling blas
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Which is an agonists, and which is an antogorists
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Morphine is a agonist; curare is an antogrists
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interneurons
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cns neurons that internally communicate/intervene between sensory inputs and motor outputs
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How does the scientific attitude contribute to critical thinking
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The scientific attitude combines 1)curiosity about the world around us, 2) skepticism toward various claims and ideas and 3) humility about ones own understanding, evaluating evidence, assessing conclusions and examine out own assumptions
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Why is replication important?
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Psychologists watch eagerly for new findings, but they also proceed with caution- by awaiting other investigators' repeating the experiment. Can the finding be confirmed (replication of results).
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Standard Deviation
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series of measurements equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the deviation for each measurement from the average divided by one less than the number of measurements
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How does our nervous system allow us to experience the difference between a slap and a tap on the back?
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Stronger stimuli cause more neurons to fire and to fire more frequently than happens with weaker stimuli
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Lesion - Definition
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- morphological manifestation of disease, abnormal, indicates something is wrong 
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definition Central Nervous System
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brain and spinal cord, encased in bone
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Definition of reflex:
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stereotyped movement of muscle that is driven by specific stimulation of a sensory neuron

connection between sensory and motor neurons (synpases) forming a circuit
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Case studies do not enable us to learn about general principles that apply to all of us. Why not?
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case studies involve only one individual, so we can't know for sure whether the principles observed could apply to larger population.
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What do phrenology and psychology’s biological perspective have in common?
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They share a focus on the links between biology and behavior. Phrenology faded because it had no scientific basis—skull bumps don’t reveal mental traits and abilities.
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Reptake
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Neurotransmitters reabsorbed by the terminal button and recycled
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PET scan
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measures glucose level and metabolic activity 
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serotonin, dopamine, and endorphins are all chemical messengers called
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Neurotransmitters
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What are motor neurons (general definition)
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neurons that carry outgoing information from the brain and spinal cord to the muscle and glands
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Hindsight Bias (definition)
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the tendency for people to exaggerate how much they could have predicted an outcome after knowing it occurred

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definition of "hypothesis"
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a testable prediction about specific events

-derived from a theory (which is more broad)
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random assigment
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assigning to two groups - experimental and control
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what the definition of threshold
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the levels of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse
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the pituitary glands (master gland)
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an endocrine gland that includes the anterior pituary and the posterior pitutary , influences several other glands
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Behaviorism (definition)
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Focuses on learning of behavior, not unobservable factors or motivations
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Psychology
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the scientific study of mind and behavior and mental processes
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What is Contemporary psychology's position on the nature v. nurture debate?
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Psychological events often stem from the interaction of nature AND nurture, rather than from either of them acting alone.
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What is the Definition of "Levels of analysis"?
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The differing complementary views, from biological to psychological to social-cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon. 
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Applied psychological specialties (definition)
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Tackle real-world problems (about 65% of all Ph.D. Psychologists)
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psychiatry
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a branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical treatments as well as psychological therapy
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science
Definition
body of knowledge about the natural world and an evidence based process for acquiring that knowledge.
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What is the definition of cognitive neuroscience?
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Cognitive neuroscience is the science of how the brain creates the mind.
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What event defined the start of scientific psychology? 
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Scientific psychology began in Germany in 1879 when Wilhelm Wundt opened the first psychlogy laboratory. 
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biopsychosocial approach
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disorders are product of biological influences, psychological influences, and social-cultural influences
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What is the definition of Clinical Psychology?
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A field that integrates science, theory, and practice to describe, explain, predict, and change individual distress and dysfunction as well as to promote human adaptation, adjustment, and personal development.  Clinical Psychology focuses on the intellectual, emotional, biological, psychological, social, and behavioral aspects of human functioning across the lifespan, in varying cultures, and at all socioeconomic levels.

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Simple Random Sample (Definition)
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Sample selected in such a way that each number of the population has an equal and independent chance of being selected
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Words the represent the acronym SQ3R
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Survey Question Read Recite Review
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Narcolepsy: Definition
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Disorder characterized by the rapid and often unexpected onset of sleep.
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REM rebound
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tendencey of REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivarion
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What five theories explain why we dream?
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1. Freud's wish fulfillment

2. Information-processing
3. Physiological function
4. Neural activation
5. Cognitive development
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What five theories explain our need for sleep?
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1-Sleep has survival value, 2-sleep helps us restore and repair brain tissue, 3-during sleep we consolidate memory traces, 4-sleep fuels creativity, 5-sleep plays a role in the growth process
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Independent Variables
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A variable that is part of the situation that exist from which originates the stimulus given to a dependent variable.
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Blindsight
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is the ability of such patients to respond to visual stimuli in their scotomaseven though they have no conscious awareness of the stimuli
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Dual processing
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The idea that information is simultaneously processed on two separate tracks (Conscious & Unconscious)
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Scatterplot
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A graph showing the relationship between two variables by indicating the intersection of two measures obtained from the same person, thing, or event
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What measure do researchers use to prevent the placebo effect from confusing their results
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Use of a control group which is given a placebo and not the real Treatment, allows results to be compared to the group that is given the real treatment, this demon starting whether the real treatment produces better results than belief in that treat
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Definition of Experiment
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is a study in which the researcher manipulates a condition (the independent variable) that is expected to produce a change in the subjects behavior (the dependent variable).
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blind procedure/double blind procedure
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neither participants or individuals dispensing drug know which is active or inactive. Commonly used in drug evaluation studies.
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Definition of Placebo
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A fake pill (sugar),injection (saline), or condition.  Alter the expectations about our own emotional and physical reactions
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what is the two forms of current of therapy
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Psychotherapy
Biomedical therapy
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what is the three ways that u can get rid of the evil spirts
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: beating them out of people
: bleeding them out
: holes drilled in the skull

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What measure do researchers use to prevent the placebo effect from confusing their results
Definition
Use of a control group which is given a placebo and not the real Treatment, allows results to be compared to the group that is given the real treatment, this demon starting whether the real treatment produces better results than belief in that treat
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Independent Variables
Definition
A variable that is part of the situation that exist from which originates the stimulus given to a dependent variable.
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what the definition of Attribution Identifying cause
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Process of developing explanations or assigning perceived causes for events.
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what the definition of Attribution Identifying cause
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Process of developing explanations or assigning perceived causes for events.
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What is the fundamental attribution error?
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Overestimating the influence of internal factors in determining behavior while underestimating situational factors
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foot-in-the-door phenomenon
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someone who agrees first with a small request my be more inclined to accept a large request in the future
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Cognitive Dissonance
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-when inconsistency exists between a person's attitudes and behaviors, they will SEEK to ELIMINATE that inconsistency by changing one of the discrepant elements
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What was the subject of this cartoon by Thomas Nast?
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The corrupt political machine headed by William Tweed
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How did Prometheus go too far?
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He instructed the mortals in methods to deceive the OSS so that they could keep th best fruit of their labora for themselves. (Decieve the gods) and then Zeus took away their fire
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What is the fundamental attribution error?
Definition
Overestimating the influence of internal factors in determining behavior while underestimating situational factors
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foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Definition
someone who agrees first with a small request my be more inclined to accept a large request in the future
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Cognitive Dissonance
Definition
-when inconsistency exists between a person's attitudes and behaviors, they will SEEK to ELIMINATE that inconsistency by changing one of the discrepant elements
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blind procedure/double blind procedure
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neither participants or individuals dispensing drug know which is active or inactive. Commonly used in drug evaluation studies.
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What was the subject of this cartoon by Thomas Nast?
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The corrupt political machine headed by William Tweed
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How did Prometheus go too far?
Definition
He instructed the mortals in methods to deceive the OSS so that they could keep th best fruit of their labora for themselves. (Decieve the gods) and then Zeus took away their fire
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