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psychology
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science of behavior and mental processes
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introspection
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focusing on inner sensations images and feelings
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cognitive neuroscience
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study of brain activity linked to mental activity.
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humanistic psychology
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growth of healthy people and individuals potential for personal growth
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psychodinamic perspective
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how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts
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clinical psychologists
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asses and treat mental emotional and behavioral disorders
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psychiatrists
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liscenced to prescribe drugs snd treat physical causes
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hindsight bias
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i knew it all along
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case study
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examines one individual in depth
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random sampling
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sample that fairly represents a population
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illusory correlations
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perceived but nonexsistant correlations
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biopsychosocial approach
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incorporates biological, psychological, and social cultural levels of analysis
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counseling psychology
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assist people with problems with living
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operational definition
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statement of procedures used to define research variables
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naturalistic observation
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observation in a natural habitat
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threshold
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the level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse
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hillock
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at top between head and myelin sheath where threshold occurs
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acetylcholine-ach
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helps movement and memory. help with learning. it's cheap and easily made
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dopamine
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influences movement, attention, emotion, learning
too much causes halucinations, skitzifrinia too little causes parkinsens |
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seratonin
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affects mood, hunger, sleep, arousal and alertness.
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norepinephrine
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alertness and arouosal
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gaba
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inhibitory neurotrasmitter
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glutamine
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major excitory neurotransmitter involved in memory
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lesion
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tissue distruction
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Broca's area
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controls speech
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wernickes area
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where we process language
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hippocampus
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processes memory
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association areas
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involved in higher mental functions
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zygote
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fertilized egg
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embryo
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2 weeks- 2nd month
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fetus
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human organism from 9 weeks- birth
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teratogens
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agents that can cause serious harm to the embryo or fetus
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accomidation
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adapting to ones current understanding to incorporate new information
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schema
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a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information
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assimililation
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interpreting new experiences based on our framework of understanding
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sensorimotor stage
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birth to 2 years
experiences the world through senses and actions. object permanence and stranger anxiety occur |
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preoperational stage
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2 to 6
representing things with words and images using initiative rather than logical reasoning pretend play, egocentrism, language development |
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concrete operational stage
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7-11
thinking logically about concrete events conservation, mathematical transformations |