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Pgs 18-20 Flashcards

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Pancreas

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Endocrine gland near the stomach, produces insulin (#20)

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Panic attacks + treatment

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A sudden episode of extreme anxiety that rapidly escalated in intensity (#20)

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Passionate Love

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Physical arousal and cognitive appraisal, temporary, beginning of a love relationship (#20)

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Penfield’s Brain research

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Discovered that direct electrical stimulation of cortex produces “mental” sensations of thinking, perceiving, rather than a sense of the brain being stimulated, storing memories, electrical stimulation research (#20)

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Perceptual constancy (size, color, shape)

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Perceiving objects as unchanging (having consistent lightness, color, shape, and size) even as illumination and retinal images change (#20)

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Perceptual set

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A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another (#20)

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Peripheral route to persuasion

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Occurs when a person is persuaded to act based on something other than the argument or content of a message (#20)

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Personal space

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The buffer zone we like to maintain around our bodies (#20)

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Personality D/O

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Deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional behavior patterns (#20)

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Perspectives in psych-

Biological

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Physiological study of the brain (#20)

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Perspectives in Psych-

Behavioral

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Observable patterns of behavior (#20)

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Perspectives in Psych-

Psychodynamic

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Unconscious mind (#20)

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Perspectives in psych-

Cognitive

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How people think, perceive, learn, and remember (#20)

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Perspectives in psych-

Humanistic

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Study of free will and help my others teach their full potential (#20)

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Perspectives in psych-

Evolutionary

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Human traits that we have adapted through natural selection (#20)

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Perspectives in psych-

Sociocultural

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Awareness of circumstances surrounding individuals and how their behaviors are affected specifically by their surrounding, social and cultural factors (#20)

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Phenotype

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The observable characteristics produced by ones genetic endowment (#20)

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Phi phenomenon

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An illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession (#20)

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Phonemes

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Smallest possible units of spoken language (#20)

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Photoreceptors

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Light-sensitive cell in the eye upon which light registers (#20)

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Newborn Baby Reflexes

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Rooting- baby’s cheek is touched, baby moves it’s head

Moro-baby- hears loud sound, baby throws its head

Babinski- foot is touched, big toe bends back

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Next-in-like-effect

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People being unable to recall information after their turn to perform (#19)

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Nonverbal communication

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Process by which we communicate via wordless cues (#19)

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Normative social influence

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Influence resulting from a person’s desire to gain approval (#19)

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Norms
an understood rule for accepted and expected behavior (#19)
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Novelty preference
Infants are more likely to pay attention to new objects or people (#19)
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Obedience experiment
Measured the willingness of people to obey an authority figure (#19)
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Obsessive compulsive d/o (OCD)
Disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (#19)
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Oedipus Complex
Boy’s sexual desire for his mom, hates dad (#19)
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Operant conditioning
Behavior is strengthened if followed by reinforcer, diminished if followed by punisher (#19)
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Operational Definition
Statement of procedures used to define research variables (#19)
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Opponent- Process Theory
Theory that opposing retinal processes enable color vision (#19)
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Optic disc
Raised disk on the retina point of entry, lacking visual receptors creating a blind spot (#19)
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Optic Nerve
Nerve that carries neural impulses from the eye to the brain (#19)
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Optimist Explanatory Style
A psychological attribute that indicates how people explain (#19)
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Outgroup Bias
“Them” those perceived as different, bias towards them (#19)
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Over-Justification
Occurs when an external incentive decreases a person’s will (#19)
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Over-regularization
Language-learning process, children extend regular words (#19)
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Over-extension
Process of using lots of words to make a sentence longer (#19)
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Axon
Carries the impulse throughout the neuron (#18)
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Myelin sheath
A fatty tissue layer that protects the axon (#18)
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Terminal buttons
Knobs that releases chemicals called neurotransmitters (#18)
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Synapse
The junction between the axon tip of the sending neuron and the dendrite (#18)
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Sensory/afferent
Carries incoming information from the sensory receptors to the CNS (#18)
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Motor/efferent
Neurons that carry info from the brain to the muscles (#18)
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Interneurons
Neurons within the brain and spinal cord that communicate internally (#18)
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Action potential
A brief electrical charge that travels down an axon (#18)
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Resting potential
The electrical potential of a neuron (#18)
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Refractory period
A man cannot achieve another orgasm after orgasm (#18)
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Naturalistic observation
Observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situation (#18)
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Negative punishment
Withdraw a rewarding stimulus (#18)
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Negative reinforcement
Increasing behaviors by reducing negative stimuli (#18)
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Nerve deafness
Hearing loss caused by damage to the cochlea (#18)
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Central-brain Peripheral/spinal cord
Perception and processing of stimuli/motor functions (#18)
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Autonomic/Somatic nervous system
Controls the muscles of organs/ controls the body’s skeletal muscles (#18)
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Nodes of Ranvier
A gap in the myelin sheath of a nerve (#18)
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Dendrites
A neurons extension that receives info (#18)
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Soma (cell body)
Contains the nucleus and protects it (#18)

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