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| In Lepizig Germany 1879 this psycologist set up his first lab, consider psy to be the study of conscious experiment known as structurlism, uncovering fundmental compoents of perception, consciousness, and other kindw of mental states and activities. |
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| Develope in the early 1900s, considered instead of considering the individual parts that make up thinking,taking a oppsite tack, considered individual element as a unit or whole. |
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| Many universities would not allow women in their peycology program in 1900s, but this psycology was the first woman to recieve a doctorate IN PSYCOLOGY. |
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| Joe therapist ask him to recount a bad dream he recnetly had in order to gain insight into the unconscious forces affecting her behavior. Joe therapist is working from a. |
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| Psychodynamic Perspective |
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| It is the Behavior that should be studied, not the inner working of the mind, a statement that mostly comes from someone that uses. |
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| View behavior from the perspection of the brain, nervous system and other biological functions, includes the study of heredity and evolution. |
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| Empasis is on how internally comprehend and represent the world, how our ways of thinking about the world influences our behavior. |
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| A college student records can be used to determine if gender differecnes in academic performances, or goverment records provide information about divorce rates uses what type of research? |
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| Looks at behavior in its true setting without intervening in the setting? |
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| Naturallistic observation |
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| Ask a sample of people questions about their behavior? |
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| An in-depth investigation of a person or small group. |
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| The Basic element of the nervous system 1 trillions are involved in the control of behavior. |
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| Cluster of fibers that recieves message from other neurons. |
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| Part of a neuron that carries messages destined to other neurons. |
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| Axons end in small bulges which send messages forward to other neurons. |
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| Axons are insulated by a coating called? |
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| Space between two neurons, axons of a sending neuron communicates with dendrites, using chemical messages |
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| Chemical that carry messages across the synapse to receptors sites on a receiveing neuron. |
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| This neurotransmitter is found throughout the nerous system. |
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| In the peripheral nervous system the_______ controls voluntary movement. |
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| Controls organs that keeps= us alive and function without our awareness. |
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| A chemical communication network that sends messages throughout the body via bloodstream, it's job is to secrete hormones. |
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| Consider the master gland,that secerte hormones that control growth and other parts of the endorcine system. |
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| The oldest brain scanning technique that records eletrical activities in the brain through electrodes placed on the head. |
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| (EEG) eletro-encephalogram |
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| Scans that provide a detail three-dimensional computer generated image of the brain structure and actitivies, by aiming a powerful magnetic field at the bosy. |
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| (FMRI) Funtional Magnetic Resonance Images |
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| By locating a radiation within the brain, a computer can provide a striking picture of brain activities. |
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| (PET)Positron Emission Tomography |
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| Maintains breathing and heartbeat. |
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| Activates other parts of the brain to produces general bodily arousal |
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| ________is the stimulation of the sense organs |
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| _________is the interpertation analysis and intergation of stimuli carried out. |
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| Thin cylindrical rceptor cell sensitive to light,helpful in dimyl lit sistuations, responsible for peripheral vision. |
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| Coned shaped light sensitive receptors cells responsible for sharp forcus and color reception. |
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| Activation of neurons in the cortex by visual stimuli of specific shapes and patteren was discovered by. |
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| David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel 1981 |
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| Theroy that suggest that there are three kinds of cones in the retina each responsible for a specific wave length. |
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| Trichromatic theroy of color vision |
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| Hearing theroy that suggest that the entire basilar membrane responds to sound acts as a microphone |
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| States that the different areas of the basilar membrane respones to different frequencies. |
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| A coiles tube that looks like a snail, filled with fluid, vibrates in responses to sound. |
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| Vibrating structure that runs through the center of the cochlea, dividing it into upper and lower chamber. |
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| Three tubes containing fluid sloshes through when the head moves, signaling rational or angular movemeny |
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| Theroy suggest when certain skin receptors are activated as a result of injury, a pathway to the brain is opened allowing pain to be exeperienced. |
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| A series of principles that describe how we organize bits and pieces of information into a whole. |
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| Gestalt law of organization |
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| According to Gestalt Law of Organization,_________ is when we group elements to form enclosed or complete figures. |
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| _________is by perceiving elements that are closer together as a grouped together |
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| Elements similar in appearance are grouped together. |
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| Patterens are percieved in the most basic direct manner possible |
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| If two objects are the same size, the one producing the smaller retinal image is father away. |
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| Straigth lines seem to join together as they become more distant. |
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| An object changes position on the retina as the head moves |
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| ______is the term used to describe our understanding of the world external to us, as well as our own internal world. |
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| Cycling back and forth between wakefulness and sleep, happen daily |
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| Freus's theroy dreams represent wishes the dreamer desired to see forfilled. |
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| Electrical energy stimulates random memories that is weave into logical story lines, filling in gaps to produce a rational scenario. |
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| Activation Synthesis Theory |
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| Dreams permit important information to be reprocessed during sleep. |
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| Dream for survival theroy |
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| The manifest of content os dreams disguises the latent content of the dream. |
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| Dream as wish forfillment |
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| Nicotine, concaine, and marijuana are all? |
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| Impede of the nervous system by inhibiting the firing of neurons. |
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