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| over estimate the extent to which others share our beliefs or behaviors. |
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| Participants are randomly placed into groups. |
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| watching people perform everyday tasks |
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| unreasonable judgement (researcher) affecting the results. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Shallow grooves that separate the gyrus. |
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| smallest amount of energy needed for a person to detect a stimulus 50% of the time. |
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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 measurement to the degree to which it measures what is it intended to measure. |
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IRB
(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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| 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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| Dispositional Attribution |
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| When you attribute a persons behavior to his or her personality or characteristics. |
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| Beliefs and opinions that we can't (or wont) report and that automatically influence our actions. |
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