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| Study of Behavior and Mental Processes |
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| Description, Explanation, Prediction, Control |
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| Focused on Structure or basic elements of the mind |
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| How the mind allows people to adapt, live, work and play |
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| Focuses on memory, Intelligence, perception, problem solving and learning |
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| Science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior only |
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| View that people have "free will" |
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| Sociocultural Perspective |
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| Focuses on relationship between social behavior and culture |
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| Biopsychological Perspective |
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| behavior to biological events occuring in body such as gentic influences, hormones, and activity of nervous system |
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| Focuses on biological bases of universal mental characteristics that all humans share |
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| system of gathering data so that bias and error in measurement are reduced |
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| watching animals and humans behave in normal environment |
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| watching animals and humans behave in laboratory setting |
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| study of one individual in great detail |
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| researches ask a series of questions about the topic under study |
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| Measure of the relationship between 2 variables |
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| anything that can change or vary |
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variable are related in same direction.
Ex. Number of Calories Taken in;
Amount of Body Fat |
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variables are related in opposite directions.
Ex. Amount of Exercise;
Amount of Body Fat |
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| Deliberate manipulation of a variable to see if change in behavior results, allowing cause-and-effect relationship |
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| Variable manipulated by experimenter |
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| Response or Behavior that is expected to change due to IV |
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| subject in experiment who are subject to Independent variable |
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| subject in experiment who are not subjected to independent variable |
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| extensive network of specialized cells that carry info. to and from all parts of body |
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| basic cell that makes up nervous system which receives and sends messages within that system |
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| branch-like structures that receive messages from other neurons |
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| Cell body of neuron responsible for maintaining life of cell |
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| Long tube-like structure that acarries neural message to other cells |
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| fatty substance that coat axons of neurons to insulate, protect, and speed up neural impluse |
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| space between one cell to next |
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| process which neuron recover between firings. no action potentials occur |
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| mimic or enhance effects of neurotransmitter on receptor sites of next cell, increasing or decreasing activity of cell |
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| block or reduce a cell's response to action of other chemicals or neurotransmitters |
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| neuron carries info. from sense to central nervous system |
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| neuron that carries messages from central nervous system to muscles of body |
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Responds to senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste and acts on outside world.
Ex. Kids playing soccer see ball.
Run over and kick it! |
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| Controls automatic processes such as heart rate, digestive processes, regulation of blood pressure and functioning of internal organs |
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| part of ANS responsible for reacting to stressful events and bodily arousal |
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| Part of ANS restores body to normal functioning. Bring you back down! |
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| Controls such things as breathing, swallowing and heart rate. |
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| play part in sleep, dreaming, left-right coordination |
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| Responsible for selective attention |
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| Controls and coordinates invoultary, rapid, fine motor movement |
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| person's awareness of everything that is going on around him or her at any given moment |
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| stage of sleep which eye move rapidly under eyelids and pesron is typically experiencing a dream |
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| any of the stages of sleep that do not include REM |
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| Dreams as wish fulfillment |
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| the true, hidden meaning of a dream |
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| drugs that increase functioning of nervous system |
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| drugs that decrease functioning of nervous system |
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