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started the first psychology lab and his school of psychology was structuralism

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william wundt

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father of psycology

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wundt

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behaviorism. showed us that you can condition fear

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john watson and little albert

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thinks that you are responsible for the choices that you make and are born to be good and become better

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humanistic

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fear of death.

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existential

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when you accept death you rid yourself from ___

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fear

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integrates biological, psychological, and social-cultural factors

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biopsychosocial framework

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dr. PhD- no medicine

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psychologist

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M.D. doctorate- medicine

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psychiatrist

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masters LPC- adjustment issues

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counselor

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therapist

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unregulated term

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when you watch people in a natural setting and write your findings down

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naturalistic observation

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when you watch people in a lab and write your findings down

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laboratory observation

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can make predictions but not cause and effect relations

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correlations

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can determine cause and effect

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experimental

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the cause

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independent variable

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the effect

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dependent variable

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the group doesn’t know whats going on

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blind study

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this group gets the independent variable

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experimental group

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this group gets the dependent variable

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control group

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fake variable

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placebo

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perceiving a relationship between variables even when no relationship exists

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illusionary correlations

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controls balance and coordinates muscles

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cerebellum

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wakes you up

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reticular formation

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controls basic life functions
pon and medulla
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bodys receptionist
thalamus
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controls emotional responses
amygdala
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memory
hippocampus
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brains skin, controls impulses
cerebral cortex
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brain wrinkles
fishers
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sight
occipital lobe
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sound
temporal lobe
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motor cortex | also the largest
frontal lobe
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sensations (bottom of line)
parietal lobe
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able to speak (top of line)
brocas area
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able to make words make sense
werricks area
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fiber bundle that connects the 2 halves of the brain
corpus callous
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study the links between our body and behavior
biological psychologist
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nerve cell
neuron
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pull in electrically charged transmitters
dendrites
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moves messages
axons
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carries messages to spinal cord
sensory neurons
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carries messages from brain or spinal cord to muscle or glands
motor neurons
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contracts muscles
ACh neurotransmitter
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eases muscles
dopamine
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natural pain killer
endorphine
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fight-or-flight
adrenaline / epinephrine
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arouses and expends energy
sympathetic nervous system
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conserves energy
parasympathetic nervous system
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aware of self and surroundings
consciousness
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your ability to choose your focus
selective attention
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your body 24 hour cycle
circadian rhythm
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sleep stages -
nonREM 1,2, and 3 | and REM
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REM
30 minutes. dreaming. easy to wake up
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nonREM
60 minutes. 3- hardest to wake up 1- easy to wake up
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why do we sleep
it restores memory, helps your body rest and support growth and without it we die
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inability to sleep enough
sleep deprivation
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inability to get a good nights sleep
insomnia
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fall asleep all of the sudden
narcolepsy
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stop breathing in sleep
apnea
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when your brain makes a story of your dreams
neural static dreams
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making up lost REM sleep
REM rebound
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while dreaming you learn that you're dreaming
lucid dreams
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altered state or social roleplay
hypnosis
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lowers central nervous systems
depressants
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raises central nervous system
stimulants
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make you hallucinate
hallucinogens
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why is it dangerous to drink alcohol while on anti-depressants
you die

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