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| 6157735644 | Bottom Up Processing | Individual elements to whole | 0 | |
| 6157735645 | Top Down | Whole to parts | 1 | |
| 6157735646 | agonist | chemicals that mimic the actions of neurotransmitters | 2 | |
| 6157735647 | antagonist | chemicals that opposes the action of a neurotransmitter | 3 | |
| 6157735648 | Random assignment | each participant has and equal chance of being placed into any group | 4 | |
| 6157735649 | Random Sample | the process of choosing the research participants from the population and happens before assignmnet | 5 | |
| 6157735650 | Foot in the door | start small then go big (extra in a B-movie to A-List actress) | 6 | |
| 6157735651 | Door in the face | small to big (want skateboard, ask for car) | 7 | |
| 6157735652 | Applied Research | clear, practical use and purpose (cancer research) | 8 | |
| 6157735653 | Basic research | pure science research that aims to increase scientific knowledge | 9 | |
| 6157735654 | QuaNitative | Numbers | 10 | |
| 6157735655 | Qualitative | descriptions | 11 | |
| 6157735656 | Self Serving Bias | tendency to overstate one's role in a positive venture & underestimate in a failure | 12 | |
| 6157735657 | Self Fulfilling Prophecies | how peoples ideas about others cna shape the behavior of those others | 13 | |
| 6157735658 | Coectivist cultures | Japan- family and company stressed | 14 | |
| 6157735659 | Individualistic cultures | uniqueness of indiviudal stressed | 15 | |
| 6157735660 | Structuralism | school of thought that thought the structure (parts of brain) and elements of immediate, conscious experience to be proper subject matter of psychology- Wundt, Titchener (USA | 16 | |
| 6157735661 | Functionalism | school of thought that tried to understand how and why the mind functions and is related to conciousness (James) | 17 | |
| 6157735662 | Descriptive Statistics | describes sets of data-central tendency; mean medain mode | 18 | |
| 6157735663 | inferential statistics | determine whethere or not findings can be applied to the large population from which the sample was selected; cause and effect | 19 | |
| 6157735664 | syntax | grammar | 20 | |
| 6157735665 | semantics | meaning | 21 | |
| 6157735666 | anterograde amnesia | cant remember new things AFTER a head injury | 22 | |
| 6157735667 | retrograde | cant rember things from BEFORE a head injury | 23 | |
| 6157735668 | systematic desensitization | behavior therapy used to reduce client anxiety resposnses | 24 | |
| 6157735669 | aversion conditioning | behavior therapy in which an averse stimulus is paired to elicit an undesireable response (bad with bad) | 25 | |
| 6157735670 | construct validity | test measures a particular hypothetical concept-creativity, IQ, extraversion | 26 | |
| 6157735671 | Content validity | content of a test is representative of the domain it is supposed to conver (chapter tests) | 27 | |
| 6157735672 | Independent variable | what is tested | 28 | |
| 6157735673 | dependent variable | what is measured | 29 | |
| 6157735674 | experimental group | group that is tested | 30 | |
| 6157735675 | control group | compared to the experimental group,recevies placebo in a drug experiment | 31 | |
| 6157735676 | left brain | language and logic | 32 | |
| 6157735677 | right brain | creative and spatial | 33 | |
| 6157735678 | sympathetic nervous system | fight or flight | 34 | |
| 6157735679 | parasympathetic nervous system | division of the ANS that is most active in ordinary conditions; it counterbalances the effects of the sympathetic system by restoring the body to a restful state after a stressful experience | 35 | |
| 6157735680 | Neurotransmitter | in the nervous system | 36 | |
| 6157735681 | hormones | in the endocrine system | 37 | |
| 6157735682 | lateral hypothalamus | stimulates hunger | 38 | |
| 6157735683 | ventromedial hypothalamus | supresses hunger | 39 | |
| 6157735684 | broca's area | makes words | 40 | |
| 6157735685 | wernicke's area | comprehends words | 41 | |
| 6157735686 | afferent neurons | sensory, body to brain | 42 | |
| 6157735687 | effernt neurons | motor, brain to body | 43 | |
| 6157735688 | assimilation | all for legged animals are dogs | 44 | |
| 6157735689 | accommodation | doggies are different than kitties | 45 | |
| 6157735690 | Concrete operations | logical thinking | 46 | |
| 6157735691 | formal operations | philosophical thinking | 47 | |
| 6157735692 | sensations | bottom up processing (parts to whole) | 48 | |
| 6157735693 | perception | top down (whole to parts) | 49 | |
| 6157735694 | Rods | night vision | 50 | |
| 6157735695 | cones | color vision | 51 | |
| 6157735696 | classical conditioning | a type of learning in which an organism comes to associate stimuli. A neutral stimulus that signals an unconditioned stimulus (US) begins to produce a response that anticipates and prepares for the unconditioned stimulus. Also called Pavlovian or respondent conditioning. | 52 | |
| 6157735697 | operant conditioning | a type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher | 53 | |
| 6157735698 | Primacy effect | first items remembered | 54 | |
| 6157735699 | recency effect | last items remembered | 55 | |
| 6157735700 | Proactive | old interferes with new info | 56 | |
| 6157735701 | retroactive | new interferes with old info | 57 | |
| 6157735702 | implicit memory | memories we don't deliberately remember or reflect on consciously | 58 | |
| 6157735703 | explicit memory | memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare" | 59 | |
| 6157735704 | recall memory | remember something off the top of your head (like fill in the blank) | 60 | |
| 6157735705 | recognition memory | ability to tell whether a stimulus is the same as or similar to one they have seen before | 61 | |
| 6157735706 | algorithms | very specific, step-by-step procedures for solving certain types of problems | 62 | |
| 6157735707 | heuristics | mental shortcuts that help us to streamline our thinking and make sense of our world | 63 | |
| 6157735708 | representative heuristics | rule of thumb for judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they match particular prototypes; may lead one to ignore relevant information | 64 | |
| 6157735709 | availability heuristics | the tendency to estimate the likelihood that an event will occurs by how easily instances of it come to mind | 65 | |
| 6157735710 | phonemes | basic sound units | 66 | |
| 6157735711 | morphemes | basic units of meaning (words) | 67 | |
| 6157735712 | fluid intelligence | processing speed | 68 | |
| 6157735713 | crystallized intelligence | aquired knowledge | 69 | |
| 6157735714 | validity | test measures what it should | 70 | |
| 6157735715 | reliability | same scores on a retest (accurate) | 71 | |
| 6157735716 | achievement test | what you've learned (chapter tests) | 72 | |
| 6157735717 | aptitude test | potential of test taker | 73 | |
| 6157735718 | Intrinsic motivation | for personal satisfaction | 74 | |
| 6157735719 | extrinsic motivation | for rewards | 75 | |
| 6157735720 | Theory Y | assumes people are willing to work, like responsibility, and are self-directed and creative. | 76 | |
| 6157735721 | Theory X | assumes that the average person dislikes work and will avoid it if possible. therefore, people must be forced, controlled, and threatened with punishment to accomplish organizational goals | 77 | |
| 6157735722 | Internal locus of control | the perception that one controls one's own fate | 78 | |
| 6157735723 | External locus of control | outside force or environment controls your fate | 79 | |
| 6157735724 | Lithium | controls bi-polar | 80 | |
| 6157735725 | Librium | treats anxiety | 81 | |
| 6157735726 | Type A | Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people | 82 | |
| 6157735727 | Type B | Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people | 83 |
