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| 11347278361 | Behaviorism | Observal Actions | 0 | |
| 11347282301 | Little Albert | Teaching kids how to be afraid of certain things | 1 | |
| 11347294060 | Humanistic Psychology | Saying that you are capable of doing great things | 2 | |
| 11347300436 | Abraham Maslow | founder of humanistic psychology | 3 | |
| 11347321575 | Cognitive Psychology | Study of how we think | 4 | |
| 11347326862 | Nature vs. Nurture | name for a controversy in which it is debated whether genetics or environment is responsible for driving behavior | 5 | |
| 11347332472 | BioPsychoSocial | Combining/connecting different levels of analysis | 6 | |
| 11347372422 | Evolutionary Psychology | Act/behave to secuss | 7 | |
| 11347479409 | Psychodynamic | unconscious motives | 8 | |
| 11347485970 | Critical Thinking | Blindly accepting ideas/thinking beyond thinking | 9 | |
| 11347507744 | Hindsight bias | Saying that you knew this all along after it occurs | 10 | |
| 11347514385 | Confirmation Bias | You already believe this/Confirms your reason | 11 | |
| 11347528135 | Overconfidence | the tendency to be more confident than correct | 12 | |
| 11347539586 | false consensus effect | the tendency to overestimate the extent that others share our beliefs & behaviors | 13 | |
| 11347556349 | operational definition | Step by step written out on how you do it | 14 | |
| 11347572365 | Participant Bias | People apart of a experiment may act different because they are being watched | 15 | |
| 11347602061 | Hawthrone Experiment | Did study's on women in factories and they thought they were working better cause they were bribed but really casue they were being watched | 16 | |
| 11347636900 | Independent Variable | variable that YOU change | 17 | |
| 11347644603 | Dependent Variable | Variable that is changed by the independent variable | 18 | |
| 11347660377 | Cofounding Variable | variable that affects the variables being studied--MESSES UP the DATA | 19 | |
| 11347692898 | Case Study | when 1 person is studied in depth, but looking for universal ideas and principles | 20 | |
| 11347708150 | Population | whole group that would be studied or described | 21 | |
| 11347717041 | naturalistic observation | observing and recording behavior that occurs naturally | 22 | |
| 11347724622 | longitudional study | Study done over a long period of time | 23 | |
| 11347735704 | cross-sectional study | Different groups compared at the same age or stage of development | 24 | |
| 11347775564 | Positive Correlation | A correlation where as one variable increases, the other also increases | 25 | |
| 11347779949 | Negative Correlation | as one variable decreases, the other decreases | 26 | |
| 11347789419 | Illusory Correlation | The perception that a relationship exists when there are none | 27 | |
| 11347796405 | double-blind procedure | experimental procedure in which both the researcher & participants are ignorant | 28 | |
| 11347805952 | Placebo Effect | a nonactive substance or treatment | 29 | |
| 11347815859 | Control Group | The group that doesn't receive the treatment | 30 | |
| 11347841810 | Mean | Average | 31 | |
| 11347841837 | Meidan | Middle number | 32 | |
| 11347859187 | Mode | Most often | 33 | |
| 11347864110 | Range | Highest-lowest | 34 | |
| 11347869790 | Biological Psychologist | roots and the results of our behaviors | 35 | |
| 11347909771 | Dendrite | receive messages and send impulses | 36 | |
| 11347912824 | Axon | the extension of the neuron | 37 | |
| 11347919835 | mylein sheath | fatty substance that covers the axon | 38 | |
| 11347927834 | Neurotransmitter | Chemical messengers that travel across the synapse | 39 | |
| 11347934789 | Dopamine | Influences movement, learning, attention, & emotion | 40 | |
| 11347948831 | Acetylcholine | triggers muscle contraction & affects learning & memory | 41 | |
| 11347957205 | Serotonin | hunger & sleep, arousal & mood | 42 | |
| 11347965940 | Melatonin | 43 | ||
| 11347979627 | Endorphines | Pain and pleasure in the pituitary gland | 44 | |
| 11347990747 | Norepinephrine | Helps control alertness & arousal | 45 | |
| 11347996279 | Central Nervous System | 46 | ||
| 11348004960 | peripheral nervous system | All the nerves that feed into & branch out from the brain and spinal cord | 47 | |
| 11348016496 | Sensory Division | travel from sensory organs and body tissues to the CNS, brain, & spinal cord | 48 | |
| 11348030885 | Motor Cortex | outward traveling neurons that carry messages to muscles and glands | 49 | |
| 11348039123 | Somatic Nervous System | Controls Voluntary movements | 50 | |
| 11348053655 | autonimic nervous system | Control Autonomic functions | 51 | |
| 11348325242 | parasympathetic nervous system | the part of the autonomic nervous system that calms the body | 52 | |
| 11348334439 | sympethetic nervous system | Arouses the body when threats are perceived "Flight or Fight" Part of the autonomic nervous system | 53 | |
| 11348351248 | Reflexes | the automatic response to stimuli | 54 | |
| 11348358787 | Neural Networks | many neurons in a section of the brain in an area the size of a grain of sand | 55 | |
| 11348364619 | hormones | chemical messengers produced by the endocrine system | 56 | |
| 11348370916 | Adrenal Glands | releases adrenaline | 57 | |
| 11348374789 | pituitary gland | Growth, pregnancy, & with the hypothalamus controls hunger | 58 | |
| 11348384888 | Lesion | Brain damage | 59 | |
| 11348390285 | Medulla | Controls heartbeat & breathing | 60 | |
| 11348401894 | Reticular formation | regulates arousal, sleep, awareness, connects to the cerebral cortex | 61 | |
| 11348411088 | Cerebellum | Balance and coordination | 62 | |
| 11348414344 | Thalamus | Relay center (switchboard) | 63 | |
| 11348430951 | Hypothalamus | brain region controlling the pituitary gland | 64 | |
| 11348435283 | Amygdala | Two bean sized neural clusters, flight or fight, fear and emotions | 65 | |
| 11348446948 | Hippocapus | Process new information and memories | 66 | |
| 11348460025 | Frontal Lobe | Makes plans and judgements | 67 | |
| 11348468307 | Temporal | (above ears) Hearing | 68 | |
| 11348472920 | Parietal Lobe | (top) Touch and body movement | 69 | |
| 11348477834 | occipital lobe | (back) controls sight | 70 | |
| 11348484368 | Phineas Gage | Worker that had his frontal lobe from limbic system. Started the study of the brain | 71 | |
| 11348511115 | Association Area | it is dedicated to associating sensory memory inputs with stored memory | 72 | |
| 11348522093 | Brocas Area | Has a hard time with speech production | 73 | |
| 11348531694 | aphasia | impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere | 74 | |
| 11348534709 | Plasticity | Brain ability to change throughout childhood and when a injury occurs the brain needs to make neural connections | 75 | |
| 11348550694 | corpous callosum | Connecting the two hemispheres of the brain and carry message back and fourth | 76 | |
| 11348563188 | Behavior genetics | the study of the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior | 77 | |
| 11348581843 | Imprinting | certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life | 78 | |
| 11348586490 | Identical Twins | 79 | ||
| 11348610645 | Environment | is every non-genetic factor | 80 | |
| 11348623200 | temperament | a person's characteristic emotional behavior | 81 | |
| 11348627561 | Heritability | The percentage of variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes | 82 |
