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1. History and Approaches Through 1920
Study of behavior and mental process,
The human mind is both,
What organisms do and how or why ...
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4. Ethics
One is one issue w experimentations,
What are some ways to tackle that...,
Who set the standards for psych r...
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5. Nervous System
How does the brain communicate,
Where must the electrochemical si...,
Spinal cord and fluids highway to...
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6. Neurons Continued
What happens when e travel throug...,
What are inside the axon,
What are inside the axon
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3.2 Research Methods: Experiments
What are experiments required to do,
Why do we need research and exper...,
Explanations that organizes obser...
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19. Behavioral Modifications and Coping
The idea that we ourselves intern...,
People who believe in an internal...,
Internal people tend to be 1 ____...
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33. Personalities -- Humanists
1 _______ and 2 _____ _______ bot...,
Once the basis of maslow s triang...,
What are the 2 parts of self actu...
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34. Personalities -- Traits
Trait psych simply looks to 1 ___...,
Are qualities or features that ty...,
Trait psycho generally uses 1 ___...
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38. Intelligence Tests
Intelligence tests are designed t...,
Inspired by charles darwin s evol...,
Francis attempted to find 1 _____...
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2. Fields and Domains from 1960s Onward
New branch of psych that focused ...,
Who did the experiments on dogs w...,
Who did experiments on animals an...
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2.2 Fields and Domains
Investigating persistent traits a...,
Measurement of abilities attitude...,
How unconscious drives and confli...
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3. Experimental Statistics
Numerical data used to measure an...,
To infer from sample data the pro...,
Bar graph depicting frequency dis...
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7. Endocrine System
The endocrine system sends,
Whats the difference b w the nerv...,
Hormones are released and travele...
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8. How We Think
With taking in sensory informatio...,
Conscious unconscious processing,
What is the last area of the brai...
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9. Hemispheres and Plasticity
Some functions are more dominant ...,
Speech left,
Complex and inferential thought r...
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10. Genetic and Environmental Factors (Behavior)
Values beliefs techniques and ski...,
Personality character likes disli...,
Personality of children tends to ...
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11.1 Vision
Pluses of electromagnetic energy ...,
Grayscale and peripheral vision,
Colors
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11.2 Audition
Sound waves enter the outer ear t...,
What are the three parts of the i...,
Part of the inner ear
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11.3 Olfactory Functions and Kinesthesia
Receptor cells in olfactory membr...,
How are receptor cells activated,
What do receptor cells send and w...
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11.4 Touch
Pressure pain hot cold can be fel...,
Detects different types of pain t...,
Theory that small fibers always s...
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12. Receiving and Perceiving Sensory Information and Attention
Fechner minimum stimulation neede...,
A noticeable difference identifyi...,
Theory predicting how and when we...
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13. Perception and Key Figures
As humans we have,
Why we see things as a meaningful...,
The organization of the visual fi...
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14. Altered States of Consciousness
Periodic loss of natural consciou...,
What are the evolutionary reasons...,
What is active and blocked by the...
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15. Drugs
Drugs that can change perceptions...,
Patients can become biologically ...,
What happens to our bodies when t...
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15.2 Drugs Cont.: Stimulants and Hallucinogens
Drugs that excite neural activity...,
Stimulants are used to 3 reasons,
What can the cut off of stimulant...
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16. Learning
Process of acquiring new and rela...,
Learning that certain events occu...,
Acquisition of mental information...
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17. Operant Conditioning
Rewards or unwanted results behav...,
An event that strengthens the beh...,
An event that diminishes the beha...
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17.2 OC Continued and Reinforcement Schedules
In an oc a stimulus that elicits ...,
An innately reinforcing stimulus ...,
Secondary reinforcers learned ass...
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17.3 continued
In cc when the ns begins to trigg...,
Diminishing of a cr when an us do...,
The reappearance of an extinguish...
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18. Other Types of Learning and Motivations
1 _____ and 2 _____ behaviorists ...,
Learning by observing others aka ...,
How does one learn through observ...
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20. Memory and Processing
Learning that has persisted over ...,
Memory of facts and experiences t...,
Retention independent of consciou...
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21. Short and Long Term Memories
Activated memory that holds a few...,
The immediately brief recording o...,
A momentary sensory memory of vis...
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22. Forgetting and Disruptions in Learning
Failure to develop new memories,
Failure to retrieve old memories,
Prior learning interfering with t...
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23. Problem Solving
A methodical logical approach tha...,
A simple thinking strategy that o...,
A sudden realization of a problem...
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Rewrite: Jeffery
Jefferys condition,
Lost the ability to comprehend or...,
What areas are damaged for jeffery
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Rewrite: Chaz/Dustin/Cayla
The use of stimuli to reinforce o...,
Example person of operant conditi...,
Places rats in a box and rewardin...
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Rewrite: Will
Altering and or encouraging the b...,
Take away what will wants term an...,
Were user directly deals w the pr...
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24. Creativity
The ability to produce novel and ...,
Left parietal lobes narrows the a...,
Correct or incorrect answers
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25. Motivation and Behavior
A result of nature physiology and...,
Can totally affect behavior based...,
A complex unlearned behavior that...
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26. Stress and Stressors
Perceiving and responding to cert...,
1 ______ is 2 ______ among young ...,
Events that evoke or initiate a s...
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27. Emotion and Expression
Physiological arousal expressive ...,
Theory that our experience of emo...,
Emotion arousing stimulus simulta...
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28. Developmental Psych
Female ovary releases mature egg ...,
Conception onto birth,
1 in gestation fewer than 1 _____...
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29. Cognitive Development
Concept or framework that organiz...,
Interpreting our new experiences ...,
Toddlers may call all 4 legged an...
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30. Adolescence and Adulthood
Frontal lobes continue to develop...,
1 _____ control and 2 _______ pla...,
Can think about 1 _____ thinking ...
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31. Parenting and Moral Development
Impulse rules and expect obedience,
Submit to childs desires make few...,
Demanding and responsive exert ru...
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32. Gender Roles and Identities
Social constructs of the roles an...,
The average women hits 1 _______ ...,
Women 1 ____ emotions more freely...
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32.2 Figures
Research on lang develop and word...,
Best learning occurs when childre...,
Too easy and the child _____ lear...
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35. Personalities -- Psycholanalytic
Dude in the late 19th to early 20...,
Believed a massive set of 1 _____...,
The 1 ________ is full of 2 _____...
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Rewrite: Psychodynamic/analytic, Trait, Humanistic Personalities
Late 19th to early 20th c man who...,
Freuds 1 _____ __ __ ____ where o...,
Our 1 _________ mind the 2 __ can...
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36. Personalities -- Behavioral and Social Cognitive
Impact of past learning on our pe...,
Behavioral personality theorists ...,
The 1 ________ personality theory...
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37. Intelligence and Types
Mental quality consisting of the ...,
A method for assessing an individ...,
1 ________ is not the lone indica...
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39. Intelligence Test Results, Labels, and Culture
Contemporary psychometerics has 1...,
Rearrange blocks into image wais ...,
Find similarities in words descri...
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40. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and Anxiety Disorders
Syndromes marked by a clinically ...,
1 _______ behaviors that are 2 __...,
1 _______ and interpretations or ...
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41.1 Mood Disorders -- Depression
Depressive prolonged hopelessness...,
What is a type of mood disorder,
Alternate b w weeks or months of ...
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41.2 Somatic System Disorder
Is when symptoms affect the body ...,
The 1 _____ of ssd are thought to...,
Susan becomes 1 _______ and 2 ___...
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42. Schizophrenia
Split minds not multiple personal...,
Shows itself as 1 ________ percep...,
May have ________
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43. Dissociative, Eating, and Personality Disorders
Disorders in which conscious awar...,
Dissociative disorder can include...,
Where two or more distinct identi...
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44. Disorders, Explanations, and Legal System
Disorder of brain function which ...,
Examples of neurodevelopmental di...,
Nd causes have to do w interferen...
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45. Types of Psychological Disorder Treatments
Psychotherapy treatment that cons...,
These are centered around talking...,
Medication or other biological tr...
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45.1 Continued
The idea that the empathy and acc...,
Active listening w a genuine acce...,
What are tactics for cct 3
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46. Specific Treatments for Specific Problems
Study of the effect of drugs on m...,
Drugs used to treat schizophrenia...,
First antipsychotic in 1950s schi...
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47. Impact and Effectiveness of Therapies
Permit therapeutic benefits from ...,
Is a therapy that treats family a...,
Group therapies 1 ________ and mo...
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48. Social Psychology I
How we influence and relate to on...,
There are several 1 ______ elemen...,
We explain someones behavior by e...
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49. Social Psychology II
Behavior is sharply 1 __________ ...,
When moods behaviors roles yawns ...,
Experiments have shown that group...
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50. Social Psychology III: How We Relate
Pre judgment and unjustifiable an...,
Prejudice generally involves 1 __...,
Believing ones own ethnicity is s...
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51. Agression
Any physical or verbal behavior i...,
What are 3 biological causes of a...,
Known due to breeding aggressive ...
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52. Attraction, Altruism, and Conflict
What are 3 factors of attraction ...,
Geographical nearness the biggest...,
Studies reveal that we are most l...
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52.1 Continued (conflicts)
A perceived incompatibility of ac...,
What are the theories of conflict 4,
A situation in which the conflict...
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FRQ: Altruism and Conflict
Unselfish concern for others,
Tendency for any given bystander ...,
Bystander effect what did the 38 ...
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