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| describe, predict, understand, improve |
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| Sociocultural perspective |
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| necessary to understand someone's culture and social influences in order to fully understand them |
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| Cultures are different and not superior/inferior. All members of a culture do not have to be the same |
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| basic knowledge on which all applications are built |
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| knowledge of psych to solve and prevent human problems |
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| determine the STRUCTURE of the mind through introspection (sensation of eating an apple) breaking it down to find structure |
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| human consciousness cannot be broken up into elements |
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| emphasized useful functions of the brain (inspired by Charles Darwin: brain evolved to have functions for survival) |
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| learn behavior from others |
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| the process of learning and the measurement of overt behavior |
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| nature of the unconscious mind based on Freud's theory |
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| measurement of mental functions (intelligence, personality, and job aptitude) |
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| Main source of forgetting |
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| lack of initial learning due to multitasking |
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| walking through your house to remember grocery list |
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| radish reminds you of radius |
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| studying nature based on systematic observation and rules of evidence |
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| publicly observable (not introspection) |
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| specific information about experiment |
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| Respresentativeness of samples |
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| show that it happens over various studies |
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| not picking ppl who come first for one group cause maybe they like the gym |
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| control over the situation to draw strong cause and effect conclusions |
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| idea of how things might work |
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| production of theory to be tested |
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| observing the uncontrolled nature |
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| relationship between two variables |
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| formal experiment with all of the variables and groups |
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| two things being related: relationship, one increases while the other decreases |
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| One thing leading to another: causes, makes determines |
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positive or negative slope
(.7 to 1.0) strong
(.3 to .7) moderate
(0 to .3) weak |
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thing that varies
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Experimental (IV)
Control (DV) |
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| informed consent, knowing risks, limited deception, adequate debriefing, confidentiality |
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| fatty cover on axon to send information faster |
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| Strength response of a nerve cell or muscle fiber is not dependent on stimuli. If it is above threshold it will still fire |
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| Causes a positive action potential in neurons/cells |
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| depolarization of post synaptic membrane |
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| synaptic vessicles containing molecules or neurotransmitters at the end and make neuron less action potential |
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| chemical carrying info across the synaptic gap |
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| keeps serotonin in it longer because of an inhibition |
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| sleep cycles, anxiety, appetite |
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| Peripheral Nervous system |
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| controls muscle movement and transmits information to CNS |
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| glands to visceral organs, regulation of essential body functions and emotions |
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| ability to respond to stress and inhibit vital organs that are not needed |
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| Regulation of body system when NOT stressed |
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| brain folds instead of expanding |
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| Axons (increase until age 50) |
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| socially appropriate behavior (Phineas Gage's personality went from nice to mean) |
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| Left frontal lobe. Broca's aphasia allows understanding people but not talking |
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| sense of touch/motor area |
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| cannot understand others, fluent but nonsensical speech, in temporal Lobe |
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| vision and located in the back of the head |
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| tracking activity and blood flow while doing something |
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| visual and spatial, jokes, emotion |
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| Language, verbal, logic, positive emotion |
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| ability to acquire new functions |
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adult males have bigger right hemispheres (Spatial skills)
Females have bigger corpus callosum (language) |
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| forces of natural selection, genes that were selected by evolutionary process |
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| opportunities and restrictions in our social roles create psychological gender differences |
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| if one identical twin is gay, the other one is probably gay too |
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Identical- share DNA and environment (highest intelligence correlation)
Fraternal- 50% DNA and environment
Siblings - 50% DNA and some shared environment (lowest intelligence correlation) |
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| Proteins in cells influence behavior, how the nuerotransmitter works, how long it stays in the synapse and size and function of the brain, hormones, physcial characteristics |
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Chemical exposure, pollution
Belief systems, role models, culture |
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| Interplay of Nature and Nurture |
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| Genes that influence how you respond to the environment (low MAOA plus maltreatment leads to violence) |
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| Masculinity and Femininity |
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| 2 seperate divisions, can be on both |
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| high or medium on both masculine and feminine continua |
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| Sex hormones influence on gay |
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| Gay males with many older brothers because there is less testosterone in the womb |
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