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Psych 400 Final
Final exam for psych 400
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
12/10/2010

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Social Cultural
Definition
The culture in which observers of scientific events live and work plays an important role in ? view of science.
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Responding organism

 

Environment

Definition
In class, it was argued that the basic event of psychology involves a stimulus object and a ? that interact through some contact medium in a particular ?.
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Reflexive

 

Mind

Definition
Dscartes' dualism involvs two kinds of behavior; the first of these (involuntary), which occurs in animals as well as humans is said to be purely automatic, machanical, or ?; the second (voluntary), which occurs only in humans, involves the intervention of the ? at or through the pineal gland.
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Empiricism
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The philosophy that all ideas arise from (sensory) experience is called...
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Similarity, Contrast and Contiguity
Definition
The primary laws of association
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Variation, Selection, and Retention
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Three evolutionary principles of biology that influenced psychology.
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Phenomena
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Kant distinguished between an unknowable world of noumena and a knowable world of ? which involves the experiences of the observer.
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motor neuron
Definition
efferent nueron (flexor and extendor)
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interneuron
Definition
another efferent neuron with the motor
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Habituation
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Decrease in responses produced by repeated stimulation.
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Sensitization
Definition
Increases in responsiveness
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More
Definition
Responses tend to habituate (more or less) when it's in short intervals.
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Reflex ... arousal
Definition
In the Grooves and Thompson dual processes are presumed to occur in a specific....system withing the CNS, whereas sensitization processes occur in the other parts of the nervous system that control the animal's level of ...
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Opposite
Definition
In Solomon and Corbit's (1974) theory, the b process must b process must be ? in direction to the a process.
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Earlier...larger
Definition
Unlike the a process, the b process is dynamic (changeable) rather than fixed; that is, with repeated stimulation, the b process begins ?, gets ?, and last longer.
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Difference
Definition
The emotional or hendonic state of an organism at any given moment is determines by the ? in the strength (magnitude) of the a and b process in Solomon.
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Tolerance
Definition
Drug ? is defined as reduction in the effectiveness of a drug as a result of repeated use.
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Withdrawl, b
Definition
According to the Opponent process theory, drug addiction may be in part an attempt to terminate or prevent... effects.
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Serotonin
Definition
The neurotransmitted thought to be involved in sensitization in Kandel's experiments is....
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Naturalistic or methodological
Definition
The discovery of casual relationships is the principal goal of science, according to... views.
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A stimulus object,

a responding organism,

a conflic medium,

a context or background (SSc)

 

[AKA all the above]

Definition
 A psychologyical event-field involves...
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Investigative
Definition
In additional to the event-field, any science involves an ... even-field which includes a primary observer of the psychological event-field.
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Both animals and men engage in some purely mechanical activities and acts such as thinking, reasoning, remembering and willing involve the soul.
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Descartes believes
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the soul (LAme)
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To Descartes only voluntary behavior involves...
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Are the product of simple sensations combined by association.
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The british empiricists belief of complex ideas.
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Locke
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The mind is a blank slate or "tabula rasa"
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Quantity,

Modality,

Quality,

and Relation

Definition
Kant's categories include
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Natural Selection
Definition
The mechanism proposed by Darwin to explain evolution is called:
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Motion
Definition
Hobbes believed that behavior was cause by ?
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Contiguity principle
Definition
Two experiences occuring closely together in space and time and are likely to becom associated
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Nativism
Definition
The philosophy in which organisms are born with certain innate ideas is called
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Hendonism
Definition
The philosophy proposed by Hobbes according to which the actions of organisms are determined by the the persuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain.
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Experience
Definition
Learning is usually defined as a relativel permanent change in behavior that is the result of ?
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Stimulus Specific
Definition
Recovery of habituated response as a result of a change in context (SSc) demonstrates that habituation effects are...
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