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| what idea did plato and freud share? |
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| that someone's past can affect their future |
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| what did cicero say about the libido? |
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| where did descartes think the soul was located? |
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| where did thomas willis think the locus of mental activity was located? |
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| when did psychiatry become accepted as a medical specialty? |
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| what concepts did freud develop? |
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| the idea of the "id" - the primitive/impulsive urge part of our personality, the "ego" - the intellectual brain/mind, and the "superego" - the "conscience". dreams were considered to be indicative of interactions between these entities. |
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| who coined the term "inferiority complex" and talked about birth order? |
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| who came up with the "collective unconscious" and introvert/extrovert? |
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| who developed the idea of the "persona" what was this idea? (*possible exam question*) |
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| carl jung. a persona is a mask which covers that which is going on inside. |
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| what is social learning theory? who developed this concept? |
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| the idea that behavior was not due as much to internal dynamics (as freud postulated) but to the external environment. pavlov (classical conditioning), john watson (scared kids w/rats - stimulus generalization: switch stimulus to get the same conditioned response), and bf skinner (operant conditioning: characteristics of a personality are behaviors that are related to stimuli people face everyday - positive/negative reinforcement) all developed this concept. |
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| linking a phobia to the process of desensitization |
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| what is variable reinforcement? |
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| behavior which people do consistently w/inconsistent results - such as gambling. |
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| what is observational reinforcement? |
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| watching someone else perform a task affecting your performance of that task |
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| where is a common place for defect to occur in the brain? |
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| the association areas - normal behavior is dependent on any system that *mediates language, perception, memory, attention, or our ability to think |
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| what makes up 29% of the human brain mass? |
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| the prefrontal cortex - the "thinking part" |
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| what part of the brain is involved with mainly initiation and transmission of emotion? |
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| what part of the brain is involved with speech comprehension? |
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| what part of the brain is involved with speech production? |
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| what part of the brain is involved with visual association? |
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| what do people w/ADD have a defect in? |
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| the reticular activating system - includes a diffuse area of the cingulate gyrus, hypothalamus, hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, temporal, parietal and occipital lobes |
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| what is the MOA for caffeine? |
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| blocks adenosine (sleep promoting) receptors |
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