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What is Philosophy and physiology
The two fields of study psychology comes from
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What is Frontal, Occipital, Parietal and Temporal lobes?
The 4 brain lobes
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What are the 3 prenatal stages of development?
Zygote (conception)
Embryo (2-8 wks) Fetus (8+ wks) |
What is Confirmation bias?
The tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values
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What is Schizophrenia?
The mental disorder (cancer of the mind) caused by too much dopamine in the brain
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Who is Mary Whiton Calkins
The first female APA president
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What is Wernicke's Area and the left hemisphere
(Left Language) (Broca's deal with speech itself)?
The area in the brain that deals with comprehension of speech and the hemisphere it is located in
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What are Baumrinds 3 parenting styles?
Authoritative
Authoritarian Permissive (laissez faire) |
What is Cause and Effect
(Correlation does not equal causation)
Correlation does not equal ?
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What is Thoughts and actions
Difference between Obsessions and compulsions
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Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
The father of psychology
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What is Action potential?
Neurotransmitters bind to dendrites
Neuron reaches –55 mV Electric firing (boogie woogie) |
Preoperational stage and Conservation of mass
The 2nd stage of cognitive development (Piaget) and what children often lack here
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What is the mean, median and mode?
Measures of central tendency
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What is the eccentric cluster (A)
Paranoid personality disorder, Schizoid personality disorder, Schizotypal personality disorder are all part of this cluster of personality disorders
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Who established the American Psychological Association in 1892?
G. Stanley Hall
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What is the autonomic nervous system?
A branch of the Nervous system containing the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system
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What is Preconventional, Conventional and postconventional
Kohlsbergs theory of 3 stages of moral development
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What is the Hawthorne effect?
The alteration of behavior by the subjects of a study due to their awareness of being observed.
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What is Conversion disorder
Psychological problem that occurs with no apparent bio-medical explanation
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Who suggested that the mind is a blank slate written on by experiences - Tabula Rosa
John Locke
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What is the endocrine system?
Pituitary—master gland
(directed by the hypothalamus) Biochemically the same as neurotransmitters Adrenal gland—stress hormones |
What is
Trust vs. mistrust (Bun) Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt (Shoe) Initiative vs. Guilt (Tree) Industrial vs. Inferiority (Dinosaur) Identity vs. Role confusion (Sky dive) Intimacy vs islolation (Sticks) Generativity vs. Stagnation (Heaven) Integrity vs. despair (Plate)
Erik Eriksons 8 stages of psycosocial development
(yes. all 8.) |
What is: the independent variable is the cause. Its value is independent of other variables in your study. The dependent variable is the effect. Its value depends on changes in the independent variable.
(Independent variable is what you change, dependent variable is what you measure change in)
Difference between IV and DV
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What is
1. Dissociative amnesia 2. Dissociative amnesia with fugue
1. A person doesn’t remember past with no bio-medical explanation
2. A person doesn't remember past, wakes up in strange location with no explanation to how and why, or who they are |
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