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| The scientific study of behavior and mental processes. |
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| founded the first psychological laboratory |
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| behaviorist; studied conditioning |
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| also a behaviorist; preformed the "Little Albert" experiment. |
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| first American to be called "professor of psychology" |
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| interested in psychology and the nervous system |
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| studied how we learn language |
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| studied images in thinking |
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| a detailed description of a persons life or part of their life |
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| studying someone in their natural environment/habitat |
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| research method that shows relationships |
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| variable in an experiment that CAN be manipulated. |
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| subjects reaction in an experiment. |
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| picks up incoming messages from other neurons to be passed along. |
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| carrie out, outgoing messages |
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| Axon's protective covering, provides insulation and helps speed up messages |
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| associated with the sense of pleasure; associated with schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease |
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involved in sleep, dreaming, and mood
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| reduce pain and promote good feelings. |
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| sympathetic nervous system |
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| parasympathetic nervous system |
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| slows you down, brings you back to a relaxed state |
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| Where are hormones secreted from? |
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| Electroenephalograph; records activity in brain; brain wave pattern |
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| "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts." |
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| when objects are close to one another; we precieve them together rather than seperately. |
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| objects that are of similar color, size, or shape are usually precieved as part of a pattern. |
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| we are inclined to overlook incompletness in sensory information and to precieve a whole object even where none really exsists. |
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| items that continue a pattern or direction tend to be grouped together as a part of a pattern. |
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| a regular biological rhythm with a period of approximately 24 hours. |
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| when youre relaxed, eyes closed |
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| What stage does sleepwalking and seep talking occur? |
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| the inability to fall asleep or remain asleep |
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| breathing difficulty during the night, leading to exhaustion during the day time. |
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| hereditary sleep disorder; sudden nodding off during the day and sudden loss of muscle tone following moments of emotional excitement. |
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| chemicals that slow down behvior or cognitve processes. |
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| drugs that stimulate the sympathetic nervous system and produce feelings of optimism and boundless energy. |
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| drugs that dull the sense and induce feelings of euphoria, well being, and relaxation. |
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| the type of learning in which behaviors are emitted to earn rewards or avoid punishments. |
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| created "puzzle box"; studied how cats learned. |
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| reinforcing successive approximations to a desired behavior. |
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| events whose presence increases the likelihood that ongoing behavior will reoccur |
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| events whose reduction or termination increases the likelihood that ongoing behavior will reoccur. |
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| any event whose presence decreases the likelihood that ongoing behavior will recur. |
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| failure to take steps to avoid or escape from an unpleasant stimulus that occurs as a result of previous exposure to unavoidable painful stimuli. |
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| observational learning that involves other people. |
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| entry point for raw information from the senses |
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| working memory; briefly stores and processes selected info from the sensory registers. |
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| the proportion of memory that is more or less permanent corresponding to everything we know. |
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| retaining information in memory simply by repeating it over and over |
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| the linking of new info in short term memory to familiar material stored in long term memory. |
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| when ask to recall a list a related items, performance is better for the items at the beginning and end of the list. |
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| techniques that make material easier to remember |
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| a portion of long term memory that stores personally experienced events |
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| the portion of long term memory that stores general facts and info |
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| the portion of long term memory that stores info relating to skills, habits, and other perceptual motor tasks. |
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| learned emotional responses to various stimuli |
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| memory for information that we can readily express in words and are aware of having |
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| memory for information that we cannot readily express in words and may not be aware of having. |
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| a flexible system of communication that uses sounds, rules, gestures, or symbols to convey info. |
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| a mental representation of a sensory |
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| mental categories for classifying objects, people, or experiences |
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| linguistic relativity hypothesis |
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| Whorf's idea that patterns of thinking are determined by the specific language one speaks |
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| thinking that generates many possible answer (i.e. creativity, thinking outside the box, etc.) |
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| thinking that narrows to a single direction |
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| step by step moth of problem solving that guarantees a correct solution |
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| rules of thumb that help in simplyfing and solving problems, although they do not guarantee a correct solution. |
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| Came up with theory of "Emotional Intellegence"; how well someone is at knowing their own feelings and recognizing others. |
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| ability of a test to produce consistent and stable scores |
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| ability of a test to measure what it has been designed to measure. |
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| defencies in adaptive behavior |
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| superior in IQ combined with demonstrated or potential ability in such areads as academic aptitude, creativity, and leadership. |
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