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| absolute refractory period |
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| the period during which a neuron lies dormant after an action potential has been completed |
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| The minimum amount of stimulation needed for a person to detect the stimulus 50% of the time |
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| The process by which the shape of an eye's lens adjust to focus, light from objects, nearby or far away. Also: the modification of a schema as new information is incorporated. |
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| Ignore transmitter, involved in muscle movement, attention, arousal, memory, and emotion. |
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| An impulse to master challenges, and reach a high standard of excellence |
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| An assessment that measures skills and knowledge that people have already learned |
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| A word made out of the first letters of several words |
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| A sentence or phrase in which each word begins with a letter that acts as a memory cue |
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| a short-lived change in electric charge inside a neuron |
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| activation-synthesis theory |
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| a theory proposing that neurons in the brain activate randomly during REM sleep |
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| a feature of client-centered therapy that involves empathetic listening by which the therapist echoes, restates, and clarifies what the client says. |
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| an interested characteristics that increases in a population because it provides a survival or reproductive advantage |
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| Behaviors that increase productive success |
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| The process of listing the attributes of each element of a decision, weighing then according to importance, adding them up, and determining which one is more appealing based on the result |
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| studies in which researchers examine trait similarities between adopted children and their biological and adoptive parents to figure out whether that trait might be inherited |
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| The outer part of the adrenal glands, which secretes corticosteroids |
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| the inner part of the adrenal glands, which secretes catecholamines |
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| adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) |
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| a hormone released by the pituitary gland that stimulates release of corticosteroids from the adrenal cortex |
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| bundles of axons that carry information from muscles and sense organs to the central nervous system |
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| a color we perceive after another color is removed |
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| The point at which a fetus has some chance of surviving outside the mother if born prematurely |
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