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| One's own behavior is due to situational factors while other's behaviors are due to dispositional factors |
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| Success is due to dispositional factors; failure is due to situational factors. |
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| Fundamental Attribution Error |
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| Overestimating dispositional factors and underestimating situational factors |
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| Attitudes may become more positive with more exposure. |
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| Experience makes language |
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| Language gained through imitation and reinforcement |
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| New information blocks old |
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| Old information blocks new |
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| Memory can be altered through suggestion during the process of recall |
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| Tend to remember beginning and end of a list |
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| One concept activates another in memory |
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| "The whole is greater than the sum of it's parts." |
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| Activation Synthesis Theory |
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| Dreams are a result of the brain interpreting neural activity from the brainstem |
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| muscle suppression; paralysis |
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| Awareness; what is focused on |
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| Detecting a distinct stimulus amidst many other sensations |
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| Point at which you detect the smallest change in stimulus |
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| Point at which you detect a stimulus at least 50% of the time |
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| Releases adrenaline.Stimulates autonomic nervous system. |
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| Releases melatonin to regulate sleep cycle |
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| Releases estrogen and progesterone |
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| Releases insulin to regulate blood sugar |
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| Releases thyroxin to regulate metabolism |
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| Regulates the release of hormones. System of glands that control growth, reproduction, and metabolism. |
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| Connects the 2 hemispheres |
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| Two hemispheres. Houses areas of reasoning and personality. |
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| Controls movement and works without our awareness |
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| Control center for emotions and memory formation. Regulates some hormone release. Amygdala. Hippocampus. Hypothalamus. |
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| "Switchboard" of nerve impulses in and out of the brain |
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| Coordination area for nerves into the brain. Regulates automatic processes. Medulla Oblongata. Pons. Reticular formation. |
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| Arouses organs and glands |
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| Controls automatic actions of organs and glands |
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| Controls reflexes and voluntary muscle movements |
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| Peripheral Nervous System |
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| Connects the central nervous system to muscles and sense areas |
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| Brain and Spinal chord. Connects peripheral nervous system to the brain. Controls reflexes and flow of nerve impulses. |
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| Affects mood, hunger, sleep, and arousal. |
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| Controls alertness and arousal |
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| Used in muscle action. Learning and Memory. |
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| Affects movement, learning, and emotion |
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| Connection between axon of one neuron to dendrite of another |
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| Covers axons. Increases speed of electro-chemical reaction |
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| RECEIVE signals. Covered with receptor sites. |
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| Bundle of single axon fibers |
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