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1st Exam
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47
Psychology
Undergraduate 1
10/03/2011

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Term
False consensus effect
Definition
over estimate the extent to which others share our beliefs or behaviors.
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Random Assignment
Definition
Participants are randomly placed into groups.
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Observational Method
Definition
watching people perform everyday tasks
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Bias
Definition
unreasonable judgement (researcher) affecting the results.
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Weber's Law
Definition
regardless of the size two stimuli must differ by a constant proportion for the difference to be noticeable.
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Nociceptive pain
Definition
negative feeling caused by external stimulus(burn)
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neuphrotic pain
Definition
derives from a malfunction in the CNS (disturb cellular functioning)
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referred pain
Definition
occurs when sensory information from internal and external areas converges on the same nerve cells in the spinal cord.
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Physiological Arousal
Definition
Heightened bodily reaction to a stimulus.
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Cognitive Experience
Definition
The brains remembered response to experiencing an emotion.
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Preservation and Protection Theory
Definition
The Farmer sleeps at night because it's too dark and dangerous to farm then.
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Reciprocal Altruism
Definition
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
Definition
A path persuasion that involves evaluating an argument based on tangential cues rather than on the arguments merits.
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Survey Method
Definition
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?
Term
All-or-None
Firing
Definition
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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Brain Stem
Definition
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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Hypothalamus
Definition
Albee realizes that he is thirsty. The part of Albee's brain that is sending out this message about body regulation is called what?
Term
Amygdala
Definition
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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Experimental Method
Definition
Direct manipulation of a variable.
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Difference threshold
Definition
minimum difference b/w two stimuli needed to detect the difference 50% of the time.
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feature detection
Definition
A specialized brain cell that only responds to particular elements in the visual field.
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Dicephalon
Definition
Located at the top of the brain stem. Contains thalamus, hippothalmus and epithalamus.
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Hypothalamus
Definition
Plays a role in the regulation of body temperature, water balance and metabolism.
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Frontal Lobe
Definition
Involved in behavior, intelligence, memory, & movement.
Term
Epithalamus
Definition
Consists of the pineal body and the choroid plexus
Term
Hippocampus
Definition
part of the brain involved in processing explicit memories, recognizing and recalling long-term memories and conditioning.
Term
operant Conditioning
Definition
A type of learning in which organisms associate their actions with consequences.
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Hindsight Bias
Definition
The belief that you knew something all along.
Term
Dependent Variable
Definition
Measurable response to the independent variable.
Term
Sulci
Definition
Shallow grooves that separate the gyrus.
Term
absolute threshold
Definition
smallest amount of energy needed for a person to detect a stimulus 50% of the time.
Term
sensation
Definition
detect physical energy & code energy as neural signs
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Independent Variable
Definition
The variable that the researcher can manipulate.
Term
Validity
Definition
A measurement to the degree to which it measures what is it intended to measure.
Term
IRB
(Institutional Review Board)
Definition
Institution are required by law to establish ethics review panels that evaluate all purposed research.
Term
Midbrain
Definition
Consists of 2 parts: Cerebral Peduncles (carries information about body movement) and corpora quadregimina (reflex center for viision and hearing)
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Pons
Definition
Controls breathing
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Fissures
Definition
Deeper grooves that separate large regions of the brain.
Term
Medulla Oblongata
Definition
Most inferior part of the brain stem. Turns into the spinal cord. It helps control heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, swallowing, and vomiting.
Term
Gyri
Definition
Elevated ridge of tissue in the cerebral cortex.
Term
Sensory adaption
Definition

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. 

Term
Classical conditioning
Definition
when 2 stimuli are associated creating a reflex response.
Term
Perception
Definition
describes the way a person selects, organizes, & interprets information.
Term

Pyschological research can prove a theory.

 

 

True/False

Definition
False
Term
Dispositional Attribution
Definition
When you attribute a persons behavior to his or her personality or characteristics.
Term
Implicit Attitudes
Definition
Beliefs and opinions that we can't (or wont) report and that automatically influence our actions.
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