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| Experiments and surveys are examples of what? |
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| Who was responsible in 1879 for creating the first school for Psychology in Germany? |
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| What perspective deals with hormones and glands? |
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| What school of thought believes it is absurd to study the consciousness and focuses on tangible actions? |
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| What form of Psychology is Sigmund Freud associated with? |
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| “Rats in mazes, birds in cages” is associated with what psychologist? |
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| Consists of dreams, perceptions, thoughts, and memories. |
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| One of the first people to think that the brain was responsible for mental disorders. |
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| According to William James, this school of Psychology believes that the consciousness is a fluid “stream of consciousness.” |
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Caused by cognitive activity
Observable
Measurable
Cause by emotion |
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| What perspective do you learn through experiences and observing others? |
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| The duck/rabbit image is an example of what school of thought? |
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| Argued that the unconscious and conscious mind are in constant conflict. |
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| _________________ means to “look within.” |
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| According to Aristotle’s Peri Psyches, man wants to ______ ____________ and ___________ _______. |
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| Seek Pleasure; Avoid Pain |
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| Observe, Describe, Explain, Predict, Control |
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| Why did Watson and other Behaviorist disregard Structuralism and Functionalism. |
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| What are the top 2 parts that make up the Nervous System? |
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| Central and Peripheral Nervous |
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| Cutting what part of the brain eases seizures in Epileptic patients and allows us to see how the left and right brain function? |
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| What is also known as the “master gland?” |
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| The transmission of characteristics from parent to offspring is? |
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| What Aphasia would have a hard time with the sentence, “The deer was killed by the lion.” when dealing with understanding? |
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| Part of your brain that wakes you up to unfamiliar noises but not familiar ones? |
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| Reticular Activating System |
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| What Thyroid problem results from having too much Thyroxin being produced? |
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| What part of the Nervous System is responsible for returning the body to normal conditions after the “flight or fight” response is over? |
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| What one of these scans uses electricity to measure brain activity? |
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| EEG (Electroencephalogram) |
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| Which one of these scans uses magnetic fields to take snapshot of the brain? |
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| MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) |
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| Which one of these scans uses radioactive ‘markers’ or sugars to see where bloodflow is in the brain and take snapshots of it? |
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| PET (Positron Emissions Tomography |
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| Which one of these scans uses X-rays to take snapshot of the brain? |
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| CAT (Computerized AXial Tomography |
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| Which of the two Aphasias causes jumbled or meaningless speech? |
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| ________ means “Body” in Greek. |
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| _________________ are the building blocks of heredity. |
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| Neurons use _________________ to transmit messages to and from nerves. |
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| 24. Two of the three studies that the Nature v. Nurture debate uses are ________________ and _____________________. |
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| The ___________ side of the brain is more responsible for language and logic. |
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| The ___________ side of the brain is more responsible for imagination and spatial relations. |
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| Know where Axons, Dendrites, Axon Terminals, Myelin Sheath, Soma/Cell body, and Synapses are and what they do. |
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Axons- Send
Dendrites- Receive
Axon Terminals- Send neurotransmitters to Dendrites
Synapse- Space between Axons and Dendrites
Myelin Sheath- White, Fatty Substance that Protects, Insulates, AND Speeds Up signals |
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| List the 4 lobes of the brain and their functions |
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Parietal- Touch (hot, cold, rough, smooth, how things feel in general)
Temporal- Hearing
Occipital- Sight
Frontal- Movement, Thinking |
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| What are the 2 subdivisions of the Peripheral Nervous System and their functions? |
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Somatic- bodily (voluntary)
Autonomic- involuntary
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| Name the part of the Nervous System that starts the ‘Fight or Flight’ response and 3 of the physiological (physical symptoms) that occur. |
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| Sympathetic- Increased and usually shallow breathing, increased heart rate and blood pressure, decreased digestion, decreased appetite, sweating, shaking/trembling |
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| Phineas Gage’s story… What happened? What was his behavior afterward? What part of his personality was he unable to regulate? |
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| What kind of memory is of very specific events like 9/11 or the assassination of JFK? |
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| Baby Albert showed signs of this phenomenon when he showed fear to all white, fluffy objects. |
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| The skill of riding your bike or handwriting is what kind of memory? |
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| Pop quizzes are what kind of schedule/ratio of reinforcement? |
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| Memory that you have but is not related to any specific event or time, general knowledge. |
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| By slowly exposing someone with a phobia to that stimulus and teaching them to cope like in the Virtual Reality videos, is called? |
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| Systematic Desensitization |
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| By removing unwanted stimuli, increasing behavior, you are doing what type of reinforcement? |
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| Which reinforcer decreases behavior? |
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| OTTFFSSENT is remembered by just the sound of the words, what type of encoding is being used? |
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| This form of conditioning uses consequences, good; bad; or other. |
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| Memories that depend on how you felt or your conscious state at the time. |
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| What kind of learning is hidden or happens w/o reinforcement? |
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| Sensory memory that deals with images |
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| Going back to your old middle school classroom or one that looks just like it will probably trigger what kind of memory? |
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| Forgetting information because new information has caused a problem with remembering it. |
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| What do we use to remember phone numbers? |
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| What psychologist is associated with Operant Conditioning? |
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| Any permanent change in behavior is… |
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| What psychologist is associated with Observational Learning? |
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| Later in life Baby Albert had a level of anxiety at the mall when he sat on Santa Clause’s lap because… |
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| Hopefully, you are not using this type of memory task usually used on multiple choice tests. |
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| If you encoded information through how it sounds, how would you most likely Retrieve that information? |
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| What effect causes you to remember things that stick out? |
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| What was Baby Albert’s Conditioned Stimulus? |
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| A problem with a fixed schedule of reinforcement is? |
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| Extinction occurs relatively quickly after reinforcement stops |
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| Your mental perception of the world around you or how your brain connects or associates things to each other are called ___________. |
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| When you forget events leading up to trauma (e.g. concussion) is called ____________ _________. |
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| Relating meaning during the encoding process is what type? |
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| In Bandura’s Bobo Doll Experiment, what was he testing and what did he find? (be pretty specific, citing examples from the video) |
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Tested: If observed aggression caused aggression or escalated aggression.
Findings: Watch the video (don't put watch the video on your test) |
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| When you eat something that doesn’t agree with you, you sometimes develop ______ ________. |
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| After I quit giving quizzes, the Conditioned Response of studying will most likely become __________. |
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| ____________ reinforcers are needs rather than wants. |
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| ____________ reinforcers are wants rather than needs. |
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| Giving meaning to what is trying to be memorized by connecting it to life is _____________ _____________. |
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| ____ is the number of digits an average person can remember. |
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| The part of the brain most responsible for memory is the ___________________. |
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| When you forget what happens after a traumatic incident is called _____________ _________. |
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| Describe Pavlov’s study with Classical Conditioning. 2 points per each term and 4 pts for correct procedure used. |
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Unconditioned Stimuli: Meat
Unconditioned Response: Salivating
Neutral Stimulus: Bell/Light
Paired Meat and Bell/Light numerous times creating
Conditioned Stimulus: Bell/Light
Conditioned Response: Salivating |
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| Name 4 reasons why Punishment does not work. |
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| Repeating information over and over until it is stored is ____________ _____________. |
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| &, °, ∞, ×P, ±, words, images, numbers or things that act or stand for something |
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| If you were at the bottom of the hill, blindfolded, and told to get to the top, what technique of problem solving would you use? |
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| A grouping of like things are called? |
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| Saying you will win if you are wearing your “lucky” socks is based on what kind of reasoning? |
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| A procedure that, when used properly and in the right order, will always lead to the correct solution |
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| A mental image of what a concept would look like. |
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| In the Big Bang Theory, Sheldon exhibits this “Eureka” phenomenon. |
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| Rule of thumb used to solve problems. |
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| What is a heuristic way to solve a problem where we know an action will cause a certain result. |
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| Using materials for only their usual function sometimes makes it hard to solve problems. What is this obstacle called? |
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The idea that Patience is a Virtue because:
1. Virtues are admirable
2. Patience is admirable
3. Ergo, Patience is a Virtue
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TTTTT- not likely
FFFFF- not likely
TTFFT- most likely
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| Representative Heuristics |
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| People afraid of flying or swimming in the ocean due to crashes and shark attacks they have heard about have made a decision using? |
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| NCLB and Patriot Act are example of this technique used by politicians? |
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| This range of retardation requires constant supervision but can do basic, repetitious routines and tasks. |
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| Spearman came up with this theory of intelligences that had general or ‘g’ and specific or ‘s’ intelligences. |
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| A person with a very high level of creativity and low IQ is called a(n) _________ ______________. |
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| Along with the Big Bang Theory, we watched a video where a pigeon wanted to get to a banana. The pigeon came to the solution after a period of time called _______________. |
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| The “Dot” puzzle is an example of how you create general rules to solving certain problems but hinder your ability to solve others. This is called a ____________ _____. |
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| ______________ _______ is the tendency to try and prove rather than disprove inductive reasoning. |
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| When a test has consistent scores using the “test-retest” method it has high ____________. |
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| When a test is able to predict performance very closely, it has high ______________. |
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| Like Archimedes did with density, Sheldon came to his wave solution by creating a(n) ________________ between the broken dishes and particles |
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| What makes the Wechsler’s Test better than the Stanford-Binet test? |
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| Describe Gardner’s Theory and Sternberg’s Theories of Intelligence. |
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| Who is responsible for the Emotional Theory of Intelligence? List and describe the 5 parts. |
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