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| The scientific study of behavioral and mental processes that seeks to describe, explain, predict, and control the events it studies. |
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| Help people with psychological disorders adjust to the demands of life. (Anxiety and depression) |
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| Use interviews and tests with not serious problematic disorder clients. |
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| Help school systems identify and assist students who have problems that interfere with learning. |
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| Focus on the relationship between people and work. |
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| Human Factors Psychologists |
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| Make technology more user-friendly. |
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| Help athletes concentrate on their performance and not the crowd. |
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| A horse that was claimed to be a math genius but later found out he watched the reaction of his human observers. He responded to involuntary cues in the body language of the human trainer. |
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| Had a phobia of horses especially white ones with black bits on their mouth because they resembled his father who he was afraid that would castrate him for desiring his mother. (Sigmund Freud) |
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| German Psychologist the founded the school of structuralism |
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| Developmental Psychologists |
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| Study the changes-physical, cognitive, social, and emotional-that occur across a life span. |
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| Minds function by combining objective and subjective elements of experience. |
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| Focused on behavior in addition to the mind or consciousness. |
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| Focuses on observable behavior like blood pressure. |
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| Structuralism, Functionalism, Behaviorism, Gestalt, Psychoanlysis |
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| Emphasizes the tendency to organize perceptions into wholes and to integrate stimuli into meaningful patterns. |
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| Emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and conflicts as determinants of human behavior (Sigmund Freud). |
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| Numerical relationship between 2 things that can vary. |
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| The changes in one variable that cause a change in the other variable. |
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| Schools in Black Psychology |
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Deconstructionists
Reconstructionists
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| Criticizes/Looks at the evidence submitted behind claims that are made in traditional psychology about black people and then take them apart within the rules. (Curtis Banks) |
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| The products, the methods, and the theories of traditional psychology can be used on people of color if you modify them. (Robert Williams) |
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| You’ve got to start over and build/create a new psychology based in African philosophy/values. |
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| Use within black population striving for excellence in traditional psychology |
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| A radical existential humanist thinker on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization. |
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| Asserted that vocational education for black was very important. Founder of the NAACP. |
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| To transmit an impulse across the synapse (gap). |
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| Sensory nerves that receive information from the outside. |
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| Motor nerves that receive information from other neurons. |
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| Areas of the Peripheral Nervous System |
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Sympathetic (Emergency system in the body, fight or flight)
Parasympathetic (Rest and digestion) |
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| Contains most of the dopamine-sensitive neurons in the cerebral cortex. |
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| Spatial Sense and Navigation |
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| If an area of the brain is destroyed, certain areas can grown new neurons. |
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| When you see someone doing something, you are more apt to do it yourself. |
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| Primary cortical areas receive |
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| direct input from a sensory organ |
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| The genetic makeup of a cell, an organism, or an individual. |
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| Observable characteristics or traits. |
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| How hereditary characteristics are passed from parent organisms to their offspring. |
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| The proportion of observable differences in a trait between individuals within a population that is due to genetic differences. |
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| Genotypes impose limits on the expression of phenotypes. |
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| All phenotypic outcomes of a single genotype exposed to all possible environments. |
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