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| The minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time. |
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| A neural impulse;a brief electrical charge that travels down an axon. |
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| Physical or Verbal behavior intended to hurt someone. |
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| The physiological and psychological reaction to an expected danger, whether real or imagined. |
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| Psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety. |
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a computer or machine that has been created to "think" like a human.
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| A theory that regards the simple association of ideas our sensations as primary basis of meaning thought or learning. |
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| The strong bond a child forms with his or her primary caregiver. |
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| The theory that argues people look for explanation of behavior, associating either dispositional (internal) attributes or situational (external) attributes. |
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| depth cues, such as retinal disparity, that depend on the use of two eyes. |
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| The brain and the spinal cord. |
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| Part of the brain associated with balance, smooth movement, and posture. |
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| It is your brain's thinking crown, your body's ultimate control and information-processing center. |
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| The two halves of the brain (right and left) |
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| Childhood, characteristics |
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| The behavioral technique of pairing a naturally occurring stimulus and response chain with a different stimulus in order to produce a response which is not naturally occurring. |
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| The theory that we act to reduce the discomfort (dissonance) we feel when two of our thoughts (cognitions) are inconsistent. For example, when our awareness of our attitudes and of our actions clash, we can reduce the resulting dissonance by changing our attitudes. |
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| Cognitive dissonnace theory |
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| The realization of contradictions in one's own attitudes and behaviors. |
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| The stimulus in a stimulus-response chain that is not naturally occurring, but rather has been learned through its pairing with a naturally occurring chain. |
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| Acquired response to a stimulus |
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| Changing your attitudes, beliefs, thoughts, or behaviors in order to be more consistent with others. |
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| Awareness of yourself and the world around you. |
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| The group of subjects in an experiment that does not receive the independent variable. |
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| The statistic or number representing the degree to which two or more variables are related. Often abbreviated 'r.' |
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| a statistical method, most often used in clinical and other applied areas of psychology, to study the relationship which exists between one characteristic and another in an individual. |
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| Extensions of the cell body of a neuron responsible for receiving incoming neurotransmitters |
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| Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) |
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| A complex molecule containing the genetic information that makes up the chromosomes. |
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| The variable in an experiment that is measured; the outcome of an experiment. |
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| Severe despondency and dejection, accompanied by feelings of hopelessness and inadequacy |
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| The ability to see objects in three dimensions although the images that strike the retina are two-dimensional; allows us to judge distance. |
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| The doctrine that all events, including human action, are ultimately determined by causes external to the will. |
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| Developmental stages, theories of |
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| A sensory cue is a statistic or signal that can be extracted from the sensory input by a perceiver, that indicates the state of some property of the world that the perceiver is interested in perceiving. A distance cue would be the eyes vergence angle. |
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| In Psychoanalytical theory, the part of the personality which maintains a balance between our impulses (id) and our conscience (superego). |
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| An amplified recording of the waves of electrical activity that sweep across the brain's surface. These waves are measured by electrodes placed on the scalp. |
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| The theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience |
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| Causal relationships of diseases; theories regarding how the specific disease or disorder began. |
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| Evolution and functionalism |
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| In research, the group of subjects who receive the independent variable. |
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| The reduction and eventual disappearance of a learned or conditioned response after it is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus-response chain. |
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| This curve shows how information is lost over time when there is no attempt to retain it. |
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| In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing. |
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| Is a basic paradigm in the psychological study of memory. In this paradigm, participants study a list of items on each trial, and then are prompted to recall the items in any order. |
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| The number of complete wavelengths that pass a point in a given time (for example, per second). |
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| Gestalt Principles of Organization |
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| a principle of Gestalt psychology that identifies factors leading to particular forms of perceptual organization |
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| is a theory of mind and brain of the Berlin School; the operational principle of gestalt psychology is that the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self-organizing tendencies |
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