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| What are the four goals of psychology? |
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| description, theory, prediction, control |
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| Structuralism was founded by? |
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| Basic elements of the mind, focusing on sensation and perception |
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| Functionalism was founded by? |
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| The whole is greater than the sum of its parts |
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| that all can be observed in behavior |
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| Behavioralism was founded by |
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| Variables move seperately |
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| the variable that is being manipulated |
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| Variable that is being measured |
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| Psychodynamic perspective |
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| Freudian psychology, minus sexuality. |
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| not interested in thought process, only in behavior. |
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| self-actualization - we make our own destiny |
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| thought, intellect, memory, focuses on how we learn and use information. |
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| looks at biological basis for behavior, primarily male and female. |
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| the observers include themselves in what they are observing |
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| thinking drugs are working when they have no drugs in their system. |
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| the experimenter tries to make the drug feel positive and good with associations. |
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| movement stimulation, memory formation |
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| mood, sleep, appetite, temperature |
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| Inhibitor, calms, inhibits movement |
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| movement, sensations of pleasure - too much schizophrenia, too little parkinsons |
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| sleep/wake cycle, dreaming, wakened state, coordination |
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| Breathing, heart, involuntary |
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| Brain stem: RAS (recticular activating system) |
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| awareness, habituation, selective attention |
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| balance, fine motor skills, posture |
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| old brain - emotions, motivations, learning, memory |
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| emotions, assessing threat, fear response |
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| basic motivations - hunger, thirst, sex, temperature regulation |
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| higher thinking, abstract, planning, solving |
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| tactile perception, temperature |
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| detection of stimuli - translate to impulses |
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| organization of impulses, put into meaningful patterns |
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| R, G, B combo makes all colors |
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| colors may stimulate their opposites |
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