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| 6691962644 | structuralism | used introspection to determine the underlying structures of the mind | 0 | |
| 6691966386 | introspection | act of looking inward to examine mental experience | 1 | |
| 6691969656 | functionalism | need to analyze the purpose of the behavior | 2 | |
| 6691978408 | evolutionary perspective | key word: genes | 3 | |
| 6691980423 | humanistic perspective | key words: free will, choice, ideal, actualization | 4 | |
| 6691984365 | biological perspective | key words: brain, neurotransmitters | 5 | |
| 6691987854 | cognitive perspective | key words: perceptions, thoughts | 6 | |
| 6691991352 | behavioral perspective | key words: learned, reinforced | 7 | |
| 6691995894 | psychoanalytic/dynamic | key words: unconscious, childhood | 8 | |
| 6691998424 | sociocultural perspective | key word: society | 9 | |
| 6692002097 | biopyschosocial | key words: combo of bio, psychoanalytic, and socio | 10 | |
| 6692006659 | mary calkins | first female president of the APA | 11 | |
| 6692010060 | Charles darwin | natural selection & evolution | 12 | |
| 6692012667 | dorothea dix | reformed mental institutions in the US | 13 | |
| 6692015050 | stanley hall | first president of the APA, first journal | 14 | |
| 6692019216 | William james | father of American psychology - functionalist | 15 | |
| 6692022350 | wilhem wundt | father of modern psychology - structuralist | 16 | |
| 6692026176 | Margaret floy washburn | first female with a PhD | 17 | |
| 6692050046 | experiment | advantage: researcher controls variable to establish CAUSE AND EFFECT; disadvantage: difficult to generalize | 18 | |
| 6692062640 | independent variable | manipulated by the researcher | 19 | |
| 6692064519 | experimental group | received the treatment | 20 | |
| 6692066917 | control group | placebo, baseline | 21 | |
| 6692069001 | placebo effect | shows behaviors associated with the experimental group when having received a plaebo | 22 | |
| 6692073915 | double-blind | experiment where neither the participant or the experimenter are aware of which condition people are assigned to | 23 | |
| 6692078992 | dependent variable | measured variable (it depends on the independent var.) | 24 | |
| 6692083690 | operational definition | clear, precise, typically quantifiable definition of your variables - allows replication | 25 | |
| 6692089285 | cofound variable | error/flaw in the study | 26 | |
| 6692091765 | random assignment | assigns participants to either control or experimental group at random - minimizes bias, increase chance of equal representation | 27 | |
| 6692099360 | random sample | method for choosing participants - minimizes bias | 28 | |
| 6692102993 | validity | accurate results | 29 | |
| 6692105118 | reliability | same results every time | 30 | |
| 6692109701 | naturalistic observation | advantage: real world validity (observing people in their natural setting); disadvantage: no cause and effect | 31 | |
| 6692116536 | correlation | advantage: identify relationship between two variable; disadvantage: no cause and effect | 32 | |
| 6692123334 | positive correlation | variable in the same direction (both increasing or both decreasing) | 33 | |
| 6692128852 | negative correlation | variables vary in opposite directions (one up and one down or vice versa) | 34 | |
| 6692135461 | strong correlation | -.8 is stronger than .2 | 35 | |
| 6692138052 | weak correlation | .4 is weaker than .7 | 36 | |
| 6692143860 | case study | advantage: studies ONE person (usually) in great detail- lots of info; disadvantage: no cause and effect | 37 | |
| 6692154066 | descriptive stats | shape of the data | 38 | |
| 6692162293 | positive skew |  | 39 | |
| 6692168286 | negative skew |  | 40 | |
| 6692169991 | normal distribution |  | 41 | |
| 6692173697 | inferential stats | establishes significance (meaningfulness); significant results = NOT due to chance | 42 | |
| 6692179700 | neuron | basic cell of the nervous system | 43 | |
| 6692182169 | dendrites | receive incoming signal | 44 | |
| 6692184460 | soma | cell body (includes nucleus) | 45 | |
| 6692186570 | axon | action potential travels down this | 46 | |
| 6692189365 | myelin sheath | speeds up signal now the axon | 47 | |
| 6692191644 | terminals | release neurotransmitters - send signal to the next neuron | 48 | |
| 6692194758 | synapse | gap between neurons | 49 | |
| 6692199941 | action potential | movement of sodium and potassium ions across a membrane, sends an electrical charge down the axon | 50 | |
| 6692206388 | all or nothing law | stimulus must trigger the action potential past its threshold, but does not increase the intensity of the response | 51 | |
| 6692214516 | refractory period | neuron must rest and reset before it can send another action potential | 52 | |
| 6692217227 | sensory neurons | receive signals | 53 | |
| 6692219552 | afferent neurons | accept signals | 54 | |
| 6692219553 | motor neurons | send signals | 55 | |
| 6692221053 | efferent neurons | signal exits | 56 | |
| 6692225231 | central nervous system | brain and spinal cord | 57 | |
| 6692227414 | peripheral nervous system | everything in the nervous system but the brain and spinal cord | 58 | |
| 6692229768 | somatic nervous system | voluntary movements | 59 | |
| 6692233018 | autonomic nervous system | involuntary (heart, lungs, etc.) | 60 | |
| 6692240849 | sympathetic nervous system | arouses the body for fight or flight | 61 | |
| 6692242706 | parasympathetic nervous system | established homeostasis after a sympathetic response | 62 | |
| 6692247239 | neurotransmitters | chemicals released in synaptic gap, received by neurons | 63 | |
| 6692254565 | GABA | major inhibitory NT | 64 | |
| 6692257480 | glutamate | major excitatory NT | 65 | |
| 6692259141 | dopamine | reward & movement | 66 | |
| 6692265237 | serotonin | moods and emotions | 67 | |
| 6692268230 | acetylcholine (ACh) | memory | 68 | |
| 6692270901 | epinephrine & norepinephrine | sympathetic NS arousal | 69 | |
| 6692272793 | endorphins | pain control, happiness | 70 | |
| 6692275605 | oxytocin | love and bonding | 71 | |
| 6692275606 | agonist | drug that mimics a NT | 72 | |
| 6692279493 | antagonist | drug that blocks a NT | 73 | |
| 6692281608 | reuptake | unused NTs are taken back up into the sending neuron; SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) block reuptake - treatment for depression | 74 | |
| 6692294938 | hindbrain | oldest part of the brain; includes cerebellum, pons and medulla | 75 | |
| 6692306566 | cerebellum | coordinates and regulates muscular movement | 76 | |
| 6692312304 | medulla | control center for the heart and lungs | 77 | |
| 6692317810 | pons | sleep/arousal; links medulla to the thalamus | 78 | |
| 6692329215 | reticular formation | mediates the overall level of consciousness | 79 | |
| 6692336665 | forebrain | higher thought processes | 80 | |
| 6692352194 | limbic system | controls basic emotions and drives; also concerned with instinct and mood | 81 | |
| 6692360832 | amygdala | emotions and fear | 82 | |
| 6692363038 | hippocampus | memory | 83 | |
| 6692364606 | thalamus | relay center for sensory info | 84 | |
| 6692374045 | hypothalamus | reward/ pleasure center, eating behaviors | 85 | |
| 6692377841 | broca's area | inability to produce speech | 86 | |
| 6692383944 | Wernicke's area | inability to comprehend speech | 87 | |
| 6692387464 | cerebral cortex | outer portion of the brain - higher order thought processes | 88 | |
| 6692394688 | occipital lobe | back of the head - vision | 89 | |
| 6692397204 | frontal lobe | decision making, planning, judgment, movement, personality | 90 | |
| 6692402281 | parietal lobe | top of the head - sensations | 91 | |
| 6692405457 | temporal lobe | sides of the head - hearing and face recognition | 92 | |
| 6692408836 | somatosensory cortex | map of our sensory receptors - in parietal lobe | 93 | |
| 6692413286 | motor cortex | map of motor receptors - in frontal lobe | 94 | |
| 6692428454 | corpus callosum | bundle of nerves that connects the two hemispheres - sometimes severed in patients with seizures - leads to split-brain patients | 95 | |
| 6692441896 | lateralization | the brain has some specialized features - language is processed in the left hemisphere | 96 | |
| 6692449681 | split-brain patients | done by Sperry & Gazzanaga; images shown to the right hemisphere will be processed in the left (and vice versa), patients can verbally identify what they saw | 97 | |
| 6692462893 | brain plasticity | brain can modify its own structure and functions of the internal or external environment changes | 98 | |
| 6692485518 | endocrine system | sends hormones throughout the body | 99 | |
| 6692488695 | pituitary gland | controlled by the hypothalamus; release growth hormones | 100 | |
| 6692493118 | adrenal glands | related to sympathetic NS; releases adrenaline | 101 | |
| 6692497138 | EEG | can observe brain activity - not specific | 102 | |
| 6692500299 | XRAY | doesn't show tissues; not useful | 103 | |
| 6692503114 | CT/MRI | shows structure of the brain | 104 | |
| 6692509399 | PET | glucose shows brain activity | 105 | |
| 6692513079 | fMRI | glucose shows activity in real time | 106 | |
| 6692523776 | absolute threshold | detection of signal 50% of the time | 107 | |
| 6692531527 | difference threshold | aka just noticeable difference; two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum proportion | 108 | |
| 6692545056 | sensory adaptation | diminished sensitivity as a result of constant stimulation (don't feel your clothes on you) | 109 | |
| 6692553129 | perceptual set | tendency to see something as a part of a group - speeds up signal processing | 110 | |
| 6692569941 | inattentional blindness | failure to notice something because you're so focused on another task | 111 | |
| 6692577300 | cocktail party effect | notice your name across the room when its spoken when you were not previously paying attention | 112 | |
| 6692584412 | pathway of vision | light - cornea - pupil/iris - lens - retina - rods/cones - bipolar cells - ganglion cells - optic nerve - optic chiasm - occipital lobe | 113 | |
| 6692632661 | cornea | protects the eye | 114 | |
| 6692634674 | pupil/iris | controls the amount of light entering the eye | 115 | |
| 6692636382 | lens | focuses light on retina | 116 | |
| 6692639160 | fovea | area of best vision (cones here) | 117 | |
| 6692641253 | rods | black/white; dim light | 118 | |
| 6692642776 | cones | color; bright light | 119 | |
| 6692644644 | bipolar cells | connects rod/cones and ganglion cells | 120 | |
| 6692647055 | ganglion cells | opponent-processing occurs here | 121 | |
| 6692650435 | blind spot | occurs where the optic nerve leaves the eye | 122 | |
| 6692653515 | feature detectors | specialized cells that see motion, shapes, lines, etc. | 123 | |
| 6692663060 | trichromatic theory | three cones for receiving color (blue, red, green); explains color blindness (missing a cone) | 124 | |
| 6692674098 | opponent process theory | complementary colors are processed in the ganglion cells - explains why we see an after image | 125 | |
| 6692681341 | visual capture | visual system overwhelms all the others | 126 | |
| 6692684687 | constancies | recognize the objects do not physically change despite changes in sensory input | 127 | |
| 6692690745 | phi phenomenon | adjacent lights blink on/off in succession - looks like movement (traffic signs with arrows) | 128 | |
| 6692702278 | stroboscopic movement | motion produced by a rapid succession of slightly varying images (animation) | 129 | |
| 6692710105 | interposition | overlapping images appear close (monocular cue) | 130 | |
| 6692713883 | relative size | two objects that are usually similar in size, the smaller one is further away (monocular cue) | 131 | |
| 6692721998 | relative clarity | hazy objects appear further away (monocular cue) | 132 | |
| 6692727718 | texture gradient | coarser objects are closer (monocular cue) | 133 | |
| 6692729589 | relative height | things higher in our field of vision look further away (monocular cue) | 134 | |
| 6692736752 | linear perspective | parallel lines converge with distance (monocular cue) | 135 | |
| 6692744477 | retinal disparity | image is cast slightly different on each retinal, location of image helps us determine depth (binocular cue) | 136 | |
| 6692751522 | convergence | eyes strain more (looking inward) as objects draw near (binocular cue) | 137 | |
| 6692765963 | top-down processing | whole to smaller parts | 138 | |
| 6692771597 | bottom-up processing | smaller parts to whole | 139 | |
| 6692774799 | pathway of sound | sound - pinna - auditory canal - ear drum (tympanic membrane) - hammer, anvil, stirrup - oval window - cochlea - auditory nerve - temporal lobes | 140 | |
| 6692786653 | outer ear | pinna (ear), auditory canal | 141 | |
| 6692790533 | middle ear | ear drum, hammer, anvil, stirrup (bones vibrate to send signals) | 142 | |
| 6692797634 | inner ear | cochlea | 143 | |
| 6692800696 | place theory | location where hair cells bends to determine sound (high pitches) | 144 | |
| 6692806062 | frequency theory | rate at which action potentials are sent determines sound (low pitches) | 145 | |
| 6692815255 | pathway of touch | mechanoreceptors - spinal cord - thalamus - somatosensory cortex | 146 | |
| 6692819605 | gate-control theory | we have a "gate" to control how much pain is experienced | 147 | |
| 6692824053 | kinesthetic sense | sense of body position | 148 | |
| 6692826554 | vestibular sense | sense of balance (semicircular canals in inner ear effect this) | 149 | |
| 6692830921 | taste (gustation) | 5 receptors: bitter, salty, sweet, sour, umami (savory) | 150 | |
| 6692838816 | smell (olfaction) | only sense that doesn't go through the thalamus, first goes to temporal lobe and amygdala | 151 | |
| 6692845464 | gestalt psychology | whole is greater than the sum of its parts | 152 | |
| 6693824307 | figure/ground | organize info into figures objects (figures) that stand apart from surrounds (background) | 153 | |
| 6693833082 | closure | tendency to mentally fill in gaps | 154 | |
| 6693836584 | proximity | tendency to group things together that appear near each other | 155 | |
| 6693842074 | similarity | tendency to group things together based off looks | 156 | |
| 6693845343 | continuity | tendency to mentally form a continuous line | 157 | |
| 6693852418 | higher-level of consciousness | controlled processes - totally aware | 158 | |
| 6693864271 | lower-level of consciousness | automatic processing (daydreaming, phone numbers) | 159 | |
| 6693873682 | altered state of consciousness | produced through drugs, fatigue, and hypnosis | 160 | |
| 6693878134 | subconscious | sleeping and dreaming | 161 | |
| 6693883040 | metacognition | thinking about thinking | 162 | |
| 6693887327 | beta waves | awake | 163 | |
| 6693887328 | alpha waves | high amplitude; drowsy | 164 | |
| 6693890839 | stage 1 of sleep | light sleep | 165 | |
| 6693892942 | stage 2 of sleep | bursts of sleep spindles | 166 | |
| 6693894779 | stages 3 of sleep | delta waves; deep sleep | 167 | |
| 6693897358 | stage 4 of sleep | extremely deep sleep | 168 | |
| 6693900119 | Rapid Eye Movement (REM) | dreaming | 169 | |
| 6693903006 | length of a sleep cycle | 90 minutes | 170 | |
| 6693904833 | circadian rhythm | 24 hour biological clock | 171 | |
| 6693909073 | insomnia | inability to fall asleep (due to stress/anxiety) | 172 | |
| 6693911835 | sleep walking | due to fatigue, drugs, or alcohol | 173 | |
| 6693921565 | night terrors | extreme nightmares - not in REM sleep - typically in children | 174 | |
| 6693926772 | narcolepsy | fall asleep out of nowhere; due to deficiency in orexin | 175 | |
| 6693932069 | sleep apnea | aka snoring; stop breathing suddenly while asleep; due to obesity usually | 176 |
