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Psychology Mid-Term 1st Semester
Chapter 1-7
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Psychology
10th Grade
10/23/2012

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William James
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1870 Psychologist studied consciousness
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Behaviorism
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1920's approach which rejected consciousness in favor of observable behaviors
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Cognitive Psychologist
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Interested in how people remember, speak, perceive things
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Neurons
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specialized cells transmit info in nervous system
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Medulla
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part of brain stem responsible for breathing and regulating body temp
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Forebrain
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Includes thalmus, cerebral cortex, hypothalmus
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Color Vision theory
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Why black afterimages after staring at white objects
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Olfactory Sensation
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Smell stimulation of special receptors in your nose by things in the air
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Sensory Adaption
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Interpretation of stimulation
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Law of Similarity
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Makes you see xxxxooooo as two units
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circadian rhythm
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biological processes that systematically vary over a 24 hour cycle
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REM to NREM Sleep
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8 month old gets highest proportion over mom and grandmother
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REM Sleep
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Dreams and Rapid Eye Movement, fluctuating breath, heart rates, active visual brain activity
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Pavlov LAW
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Music tone before = NEUTRAL STIMULUS

Music tone After = CONDITIONED STIMULUS
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Law of Effect
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Manager plays classic music to get teenagers to move away from door way
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Positive Reinforcement
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Positive means to add
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negative Reinforcement
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Negative means taking away
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Cognitive Maps
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Helps a person visually see in their brain something they've seen...like a map
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Sensory Memory
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Shortest duration
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Short Term Memory
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Capacity is 7 times or bits of information
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Chunking
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Why VCRFBIUSACIA is easier to remember than UIAFCICRBSAV
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Context Effect
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Study in library and know everything then take test in gym and forget all because of this effect
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Cognition
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mental activity involved in acquiring and retaining knowledge
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mental images
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Being able to count how many stop signs you passed on the way home - after you get home
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Prototype
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When asks list pets and you name doge, it's because dog is your prototype for "pets"
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additive model
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This model helps you prioritize your needs in order to make a decision based on them.
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availability heuristic
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When choosing whether to do something and you just heard that choice turned out very bad for somebody else
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Psychologist Wechsler
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there are multiple forms of intelligence and itis valued within a particular cultural setting
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Basic Characteristics associated with motivated behavior
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activation, persistence, intensity
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Maslow's Needs Pyramid
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People are motivated to meet their needs at each level before moving to the next level
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Ekman's Work
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facial expressions are innate and hard-wired into our brains
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Display Rules
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Controls how people express their emotions in a particular culture
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Sympathetic Nervous System
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Intense emotions (anger & fear) activate this
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