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This part of the brain is responsible for reason, judgment, and processing of your experiences….
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Frontal Lobe or prefrontal cortex
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This area is responsible for human drives including hunger, thirst and sex drive
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Hypothalamus
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This area of the brain is the last to development which explains an adolescent tendency to be impulsive and have emotional disregulation
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Limbic System
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This insulates and nourishes neurons and may actually play a direct role in the transmission of neural signals.
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Glial cells ½ points for myelinated sheath
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The “all or nothing” principle of the action potential of a neuron means what……
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Neurons either fire at full strength or not at all
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The multi-layered tissue which lines the back of the eye and contains the visual receptor cells is call the what…
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retina
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Cones are responsible for what in the eye
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Color and precision vision in bright light
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If I go shopping for a swing set, I am able to recognize that a far away swing set, though it may look a few inches taller because of the distance from me, is actually the same size due to what theory…….
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Gestalt principle of size constancy
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In a person with conductive hearing loss, the most likely treatment will involve what?
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Hearing aid
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The ossicles consist of the smallest bones in the body which are…..
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Hammer, anvil and stirrup
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A testable prediction is called what
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hypothesis
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Telling potential participants in a research study enough about the study that the participates are able to make a sound decision about whether or not they wish to participate.
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Informed consent
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The variable that is manipulated in research and whose effects will be studied.
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Independent variable
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This person’s study was foundational in ensuring ethical guidelines to protect human research participates from undue harm
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Stanley Milgram
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This law states that rewarded behavior is likely to occur again and for double points name the person who coined it………
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Law of Effect-Thorndike
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This is the science of behavior and mental processes
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Psychology
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The subspecialty that deals with understanding and treating psychological difficulties is….
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Abnormal Psychology
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What does DSM stand for
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
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The primary goals of psychology include these three things…
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Describe, predict and manage or change behavior
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The three ideals that psychologists ascribe to are…….
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Objectivity, accuracy and healthy skepticism
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The researcher who accidentally discovered the phenomenon of classical conditioning while studying digestive processes in dogs….
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Ivan Pavlov
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Focus was on unconscious drives and desires and was often criticized for his focus on sex
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Freud
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Was famous for his research in operant conditioning
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BF Skinner
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He believed that drives were unconscious but all behavior was learned and that there were specific laws of learning
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Watson
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The psychologist that pioneered experiments involving observational learning was….
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Albert Bandura
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The deepest stage of sleep is:
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Delta sleep
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Dreams happen at what stage of sleep
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REM
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Memory encoding that requires attention and conscious work…..
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Effortful processing
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The part of the brain that is responsible for forming new memories
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Hippocampus
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The ability to only remember the good times or seeing things in a more favorable light is a phenomenon called…..
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Motivated forgetting
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The process of reinforcing behaviors which successively come close to the desired behavior until the full behavior is reached……
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Shaping
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Withdrawing a desirable stimulus
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Negative Punishment
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reinforces a response only after a specified time has elapsed.
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Fixed-interval schedule
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This is hard to extinguish because of the unpredictability.
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Variable-ratio schedule
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This type of learning is Not immediately expressed, Occurs without obvious reinforcementand is applied later
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Latent learning
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The area of psychology that studies how people grow and change or time
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Developmental Psychology
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An adolescent’s egocentric conviction that he or she cannot be overcome or even harmed by anything that might defeat a normal mortal
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Invincibility Fable
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The type of intelligence that remains reasonably stable over time if meaning continues to be attached…..
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Crystallized Intelligence
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The observable characteristic of a person, including appearance, personality, intelligence, and all other traits
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Phenotype
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This person was foundational in exploring developing stages that focused on social influences with the belief that development came out of internal versus external crisis……..
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Eric Erickson
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Foundational in creating the stages of cognitive development……200 points additional for each if you can name them….
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Piaget Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational and Formal Operational
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Schizophrenia is a disease of the ___ exhibited in the symptoms of the ______
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Brain, mind
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Name the criteria for ‘abnormal behavior’….
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Atyical, socially unacceptable and causes distress
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If someone is on a commitment they are responsible to answer and follow the recommendations of what dept….
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Human Services
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When someone loses touch with reality and experiences the unconscious creation of alternate personalities
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Dissociative Identity Disorder
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