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What is learning?
A relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience.
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What is the 3-box model?
The memory model including encoding, storage, and retrieval.
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What is the endocrine system?
The body's slow chemical communication system.
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What is the id, ego, and superego?
Sigmund Freud's 3 parts of personality.
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What is projection?
Taking negative feelings and projecting them onto another person, thing, or situation.
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What is latent learning?
Learning that becomes obvious only once a reward is given for it.
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What is an algorithm?
Step by step procedure to guarantee a solution.
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What are endorphins?
The body's natural pain killer.
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Who is Carl Jung?
Believed unconscious had two parts: personal and collective.
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What is heritability?
The measure of the percentage of the traits that is inherited.
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Who is John Watson?
Father of behaviorism and creator of Baby Albert experiment.
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What are the stages of language acquisition?
Holographic stage, one-word stage, and telegraphic stage.
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What is the thyroid gland?
DAILY DOUBLE: Gland that regulates metabolism.
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Who is Hippocrates?
Came up with first biotheory of personality, and that it is determined by humors.
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What are the sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operation, and formal operation stages?
Piaget's stages of Cognitive Development.
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What is the Garcia Effect?
DAILY DOUBLE: Humans and animals are biologically prepared to make certain connections more easily than others.
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Who is Charles Spearman?
Person that came up with Factor analysis and the g factor.
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What is aphasia?
Language disturbance.
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Who is Albert Bandura?
"Personality is created by the interactions of a person's traits, environment, and person's behavior."
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What is the zygote, embryo, and fetus?
Three stages of prenatal development: 40-week gestation.
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What are neuromodulators?
Part of the brain that reshape neural circuits to help animals adapt.
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What is psychometrics?
The study of test making.
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What is the angular gyrus?
Transforms visual info into auditory code.
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Who is Gordon Alport?
Described people with cardinal, central, and secondary dispositions.
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What is empiricism?
Knowledge/learning comes from experience, therefore, science should rely on observation and experimentation.
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